What does lightweight mean

Definitions for lightweight
ˈlaɪtˌweɪt light·weight

Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word lightweight.

Princeton’s WordNet (1.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:

a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds

whippersnapper, jackanapes, lightweight noun

someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds

a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds

weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use

«a lightweight fabric»; «lightweight wood»

having no importance or influence

«a lightweight intellect»

Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:

A boxer in a weight division having a maximum limit of 135 pounds for professionals and 132 pounds for amateurs.

A competitive weight division between bantamweight and welterweight, with specific weights varying by organization.

One of little consequence or ability.

A person who can’t handle their drink.

A political candidate with little chance of winning

Lacking in earnestness, ability, or profundity

Having less than average weight

Lacking in strength

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Lightweight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.

The New Hacker’s Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:

Opposite of heavyweight; usually found in combining forms such as lightweight process.

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Numerology

The numerical value of lightweight in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

The numerical value of lightweight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of lightweight in a Sentence

Senator Rubio is a lightweight, he wouldn’t be able to do this. He wouldn’t know a trade deal from any other kind of deal…Guys like Rubio, he desperately needs money.

Weight is crucial for us, the lightweight materials that Puma are now using in the suits, in the footwear, in the gloves, save us grams but they all add up.

Asa Hutchinson, the lightweight RINO Governor of Arkansas, just vetoed a Bill that banned the CHEMICAL CASTRATION OF CHILDREN, bye-bye Asa,’ that’s the end of him!

He had a tough night. He is a lightweight.

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Dictionary entry overview: What does lightweight mean?

1. a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds

2. someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

3. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds

4. a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds

Familiarity information: LIGHTWEIGHT used as a noun is uncommon.

1. weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use

2. having no importance or influence

Familiarity information: LIGHTWEIGHT used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

A professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms («lightweight» is a kind of. ):

Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms («lightweight» is a kind of. ):

lightweight (having no importance or influence)

An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms («lightweight» is a kind of. ):

boxer; pugilist (someone who fights with his fists for sport)

A wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms («lightweight» is a kind of. ):

grappler; matman; wrestler (combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground)

Weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use

light (of comparatively little physical weight or density)

Having no importance or influence

a lightweight intellect

lightweight (someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous)

Lightweight semiconducting plastics are now widely used in mass market electronic displays such as those found in phones, tablets and flat-screen televisions.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

The researchers first twist-spun the nanotubes into high-strength, lightweight yarns.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And birds’ lightweight, hollow bones break easily, accelerating the decay of the DNA within.

(Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave, National Science Foundation)

Spongy bone is lightweight and consists of trabeculae, which branch and intersect to form a sponge like network, and red bone marrow for hematopoiesis.

(Mature Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

It could also lead to the creation of more durable, lightweight materials for the aerospace industry.

(Discovery may lead to osteoporosis treatment, National Science Foundation)

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, developed a lightweight microscope that attaches to a cell phone.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)

You only need a very thin film of this perovskite material – around one thousand times thinner than a human hair – to achieve similar efficiencies to the silicon wafers currently used, opening up the possibility of incorporating them into windows or flexible, ultra-lightweight smartphone screens.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)

What is lightweight?

«Is his girlfriend fine?»
«She ain’t fine, but she ain’t ugly, so I guess she lightweight fine blud»

Someone who has a low tolerance to alcohol, i.e get’s pissed off three pints.

p1: Get me another beer mate.
p2: I wouldn’t, he’s pissed already.
p3: Yeah, he is such a lightweight.

What does «lightweight» mean?

underweight from the minimum requirement needed to play this sport.

This can have two meanings:
1) The traditional meaning of someone who cannot hold their drink or
2) An insulting term given to someone whose actions or opinions are of no consequence.

Martin: Is that Graham over there, in the Burberry shirt?
Spud: Yeah, but steer clear of him, he’s a lightweight.

when a person has low tolerance on any drugs, including marijuana.

pothead 2: Yeah, I’m not even high, he’s a lightweight.

lightweight: I’m so high right now!

pothead 1: dude, this sucks lets get some dank dude.

a little, a small amount

1 A small amount or a little bit
2 Someone who cannot handle consuming large amounts of drugs or alchohol

1 «That movie was lightweight stupid»
2 «He’s so lightweight he’s high after one hit»

Lightweight

1. so-so, kind of, a little bit.
2. one who can’t handle their alcohol/weed

1. That party was lightweight tight
2. Look at that lightweight, puking after two cups!

Lightweight

Someone who cannot physically pull an all-nighter because they suck and somehow have a life outside of school, even if they go to GECA.

Lightweight

Someone who cant hold their beer (gets drunk off of 4 beers)

What does it mean to say a man is a «lightweight»? [closed]

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Martin told me that he was a lightweight, something I’d never heard a man admit on a date (or ever).

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According to Urban Dictionary, a lightweight is

one who can’t handle their alcohol/weed.

At some point around 1809 according to http://www.etymonline.com/ it was used in the figurative sense meaning someone or something was small or not influential.

1. light in weight.

2. being lighter in weight, texture, etc., than another item or object of identical use, quality, or function: a lightweight topcoat; a lightweight alloy for ship construction.

3. without seriousness of purpose; trivial or trifling: lightweight reading.

4. of or relating to a lightweight: He’s the new lightweight contender.

5. (of a horse, especially a hunter) able to carry up to 165 pounds (75 kg).

6. a person of less than average weight.

7. Informal. a person who is of little influence, importance, or effect.

8. a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a featherweight and a welterweight, especially a professional boxer weighing between 126 and 135 pounds (56.7–61 kg).

So, context. In this particular instance, the original quote is saying that he is a lightweight, which means he is not able to drink a lot of alcohol. Based on the rest of your sentence and that he was on a date. As another answer has also said, in American culture men like to be seen as being able to drink quite a bit without being effected. She was surprised he admitted it, or at least admitted it on a date.

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Is there a technical definition, or at least some benchmark notion, of the word «lightweight»?

Is it just some arbitrary «doesn’t consume a lot of computer resources»?

Or perhaps «the application doesn’t fork new processes» (a singe process or threads-only)?

If there is no technical definition, I’ll accept the answer that gives the best rules-of-thumb as whenever something is lightweight or not.

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I think a good definition is probably like «If I try to use it on an old machine, it will work seamlessly.»

Even if, say, a Pentium II machine is nowadays probably so old that some people will just go «but that’s oooold» instead of focusing on the lightweightness, thing is: there are window managers (and perhaps simple DEs, like XFCE from before it started getting more bloated) which will run nicely on said machine. They’re lightweight.

Firefox, OTOH, has memory leaks and requires several hundred megabytes in order to maintain several open tabs. It stopped being lightweight somewhere before Firefox 2 had been launched.

Even then, CPU usage or disk access can be another thing to consider. I dislike the new GTK file picker not only because of their UI redesigns, but also because, when I used an older machine, I also noticed one of the changes they made was to introduce file sniffing that you simply couldn’t turn off. This introduced long delays every time some GTK+ application opened a file picker, especially in directories with several files. Doing ls or using the QT file picker would be quick and easy. So would Firefox with its own file picker. But, say, Firefox with the GTK+ file picker prompting for the binary to open a file with would open /usr/bin and that would take several seconds to process. Since then, I think we can say the GTK+ file picker is not lightweight. A lightweight toolkit would, perhaps, allow you to toggle off this sniffing, as it can be intensive.

«the application doesn’t fork new processes», «(a singe process or threads-only)»: I don’t know by how much, but processes will likely be slower than threads, yes. Taking threading/several processes (even if the latter is slower than the former) into account is a good idea — unless we’re talking about a program that forks a lot (say, good old bash fork bombs), they won’t use that many resources, while they may improve responsiveness. One thing that may even happen is that someone who considers a program to be lightweight if it is responsive will say that a program is not lightweight if it blocks for some seconds doing something under the hood, and one way to avoid this is to have separate threads, one dealing with the UI and the other doing these things under the hood.

Many Window Managers can be said to be lightweight compared to Desktop Environments because DEs provide several applications and tools to do various things, while WMs just, well, manage windows (DEs do, in fact, have WMs as one of their components).

A small commandline tool that does some task is also lightweight compared to some GUI application offering a bunch of menus to do the same thing, especially if you have to roam through the menus and options to do something you could do quickly with one command. (Although here I may be biased, as with my old machine, these GUI tools would usually be slower, just because of the GUI.)