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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A weight consisting of a short bar with a metal ball or disk at each end that is lifted for muscular development and exercise.
- noun Slang A stupid person; a dolt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a pair of weights, each consisting of two balls joined by a bar, intended to be swung in the hands for the sake of muscular exercise, made of iron, or for very light exercise of hard wood.
- noun In bacterial., a diplococcus: so called from its shape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An exercising weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
- noun an ignorant or foolish person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun weightlifting A
weight consisting of twodisks orspheres attached to ashort bar; used forexercise andweight training - noun pejorative A
stupid person
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle
- noun an ignorant or foolish person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Northgate included a single department store, but the standard arrangement, called a dumbbell plan, had two department stores, one at each end of a pedestrian promenade.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Northgate included a single department store, but the standard arrangement, called a dumbbell plan, had two department stores, one at each end of a pedestrian promenade.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Northgate included a single department store, but the standard arrangement, called a dumbbell plan, had two department stores, one at each end of a pedestrian promenade.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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In one small case, you can create up to two fifteen-pound dumbbells or one thirty-pound dumbbell, which is what you will soon need.
Lange 2010 Jim Karas 2007
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In one small case, you can create up to two fifteen-pound dumbbells or one thirty-pound dumbbell, which is what you will soon need.
Lange 2010 Jim Karas 2007
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Together, the two ends of the dumbbell were a pair of magnetic dipoles and opposites of each other, but were separated by a significant distance.
Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2010
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Together, the two ends of the dumbbell were a pair of magnetic dipoles and opposites of each other, but were separated by a significant distance.
Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2010
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We need a way to divide the mind into parts that is more meaningful than crude folk psychology "dumbbell" two part distinctions such as conscious v. unconscious, premeditated v. impulsive, etc.
Archive 2008-10-01 Bill Kerr 2008
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We need a way to divide the mind into parts that is more meaningful than crude folk psychology "dumbbell" two part distinctions such as conscious v. unconscious, premeditated v. impulsive, etc.
minsky 4: consciousness Bill Kerr 2008
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And what I tried to do in using that term "dumbbell," was to call it into question and say, well, what if we try to understand him not as a dumbbell, but as a kind of text?
Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions 1996
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Words with the same meaning
- Boeotian
- Indian club
- barbell
- block
- boob
- booby
- clod
- dimwit
- dolt
- donkey
- dope
- dullard
- dullhead
- dumb cluck
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- exerciser
- gowk
- horse
- idiot
- ignoramus
- jobbernowl
- lackwit
- lamebrain
- lightweight
- long horse
- looby
- loon
- moron
- niais
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nitwit
- noddy
- parallel bars
- pinhead
- punching bag
- put
- rings
- rowing machine
- side horse
- simpleton
- stupid
- thickwit
- trampoline
- trapeze
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