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Flyweight vs Featherweight - What's the difference?

flyweight | featherweight |

As nouns the difference between flyweight and featherweight

is that flyweight is a weight that moves outward depending on centrifugal force while featherweight is a weight division in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57 kilograms.

flyweight

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia flyweight)
  • (mechanics) a weight that moves outward depending on centrifugal force.
  • (sports) a weight division of professional boxing between junior flyweight and junior bantamweight; a boxer in this division
  • (sports) a similar division and contestant in wrestling
  • (figuratively) small, light or unimportant
  • * 2010 , Roger Ebert, Sex and the City 2 :
  • The characters of "Sex and the City 2" are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row.

    Derived terms

    * flyweight pattern

    featherweight

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A weight division in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57 kilograms.
  • A boxer who fights in this division.