deadweight
31deadweight capacity — noun or deadweight tonnage : the carrying capacity of a ship in tons of 2240 pounds : the difference between a ship s displacement light and her displacement loaded …
32deadweight — noun Date: 1659 1. the unrelieved weight of an inert mass 2. dead load 3. a ship s load including the total weight of cargo, fuel, stores, crew, and passengers …
33deadweight — dead weight or dead·weight (dĕdʹwātʹ) n. 1. The unrelieved weight of a heavy, motionless mass. 2. An oppressive burden or difficulty. 3. Abbr. DW The fixed weight of a structure or piece of equipment, such as a bridge on its supports. Also called …
34deadweight — 1. noun a) The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty. b) A useless, usually encumbering factor. 2. adjective Describes a shot with …
35deadweight — Synonyms and related words: avoirdupois, bale, beef, beefiness, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, cross, cumber, cumbrance, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment, encumbrance, fatness, freight, gravity, gross… …
36Deadweight — (englisch), Abkurzung dw, das Gesamtzuladungsgewicht eines Handelsschiffes in tons (tdw, 1 ton = 1016kg); es umfasst Ladung, Brennstoff, Proviant und sonstige Verbrauchsstoffe …
37Deadweight — Dead|weight 〈[dɛ̣dwɛıt] n.; Gen.: s, Pl.: s; meist Sg.; Schiff.〉 maximale Tragfähigkeit eines Schiffes [Etym.: engl.] …
38deadweight — dead|weight dead weight [ˈdedweıt] n [singular] 1.) something that is very heavy and difficult to carry 2.) someone or something that prevents you from making progress or being successful …
39Deadweight — Dead|weight [ dɛdweit] das; [s], s <aus engl. dead weight »Eigenmasse«, eigtl. »totes Gewicht«> Gesamttragfähigkeit eines Schiffes …
40deadweight — n. heavy burden; weight of a railroad car without cargo …
