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wimp
1[ wimp ]
noun
Informal.
- a weak, ineffectual, timid person.
verb phrase
- Informal.
- to be or act like a wimp.
- to show timidity or cowardice; chicken out.
WIMP
2[ wimp ]
noun
- any of a group of weakly interacting elementary particles predicted by various unified field theories, as the W particle and Z-zero particle, that are characterized by relatively large masses.
wimp
1/ 飞瑟尘辫 /
noun
- informal.a feeble ineffective person See also wimp out
WIMP
2/ 飞瑟尘辫 /
acronym for
- windows, icons, menus ( or mice), pointers: denoting a type of user-friendly screen display used on small computers
a WIMP system
- physics weakly interacting massive particle
WIMP
- Short for weakly interacting massive particle . Any of various hypothetical particles, some predicted by certain theories such as supersymmetry, which interact with other particles by the force of gravity alone. WIMPs are considered by some scientists to be candidates for the dark matter that makes up much of the mass of the universe.
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Derived Forms
- 藞飞颈尘辫颈蝉丑, adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of wimp2
1985鈥90; W(eakly) I(nteracting) M(assive) P(article)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of wimp1
C20: of unknown origin
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He reacted and Scarlett "jokingly" called him a wimp, Ms Hall says.
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鈥淚 am a wimp,鈥 Martindale confessed as she pushed some eggs around her plate.
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"So, either she's going to be a wimp, and do nothing, or she's going to be driven and ambitious. Character is what drives everything forward."
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Instead, the Democrats were losing half the time to a party that should never even have had a shot because voters saw liberals as wimps and weak patriots.
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Inkling promised it would work if I鈥檇 just commit myself and not wimp out.
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