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- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-air space
- A sealed airspace in a cavity wall
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-end
- The end of a road, (or by extension), the end of any event
Mary realised her relationship with Jim had hit a dead-end.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-end
- To come to a dead-end
Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-end
- Going nowhere; blocked
a dead-end job.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-in-shell
- When the embryo in an egg develops part way but dies without hatching
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-president
- Attributive form of dead presidents, noun
I want some dead-president action, you one-armed bandit!.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-red
- A four-seam fastball
The pitch was dead-red.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-set
- Alternative spelling of dead set
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-tree
- Alternative spelling of dead tree
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-heat
- a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-air space
- an unventilated area where no air circulates
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-beat
- If you are dead-beat, you are very tired and have no energy left. = shattered
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-end
- lacking opportunities for development or advancement; "stuck in a dead-end job
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-end
- lacking opportunities for development or advancement; "stuck in a dead-end job"
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-end kids
- children from the slums, problem youth
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-end street
- street that is closed at one end
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-head
- If you say that someone is a deadhead, you mean that they are stupid or slow
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-head
- To dead-head a plant which is flowering means to remove all the dead flowers from it. Dead-head roses as the blooms fade
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-heading
- Operating a truck without cargo
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-man's float
- a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-man's-fingers
- the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-on
- dead-on(a): accurate and to the point; "a dead-on feel for characterization"; "She avoids big scenes preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue"- Peter S Prescott
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-on(a)
- accurate and to the point; "a dead-on feel for characterization"; "She avoids big scenes
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-on(a)
- Prescott
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>-on(a)
- preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue"- Peter S
- Book of the <span class="word-self">Deadspan>
- The ancient Egyptian funerary text
- <span class="word-self">Deadspan> Sea
- A lake in the Middle East, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest point on Earth
- <span class="word-self">Deadspan> Sea apple
- a fruit, supposed to dissolve into smoke or ashes when plucked
The man who makes himself a slave to gold is a miserable wretch indeed, winning for his prize the Dead Sea apple - golden without, but ashes within.
- <span class="word-self">Deadspan> Sea apples
- plural form of Dead Sea apple
- beat a <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason
After having shown us three hours of instructional and safety videos, the inspector was simply beating a dead horse by telling us to buckle up as we got into the van.
- beaten a <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- Past participle of beat a dead horse
- beats a <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beat a dead horse
- brain-<span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy
- brain-<span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity
- clinically <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- In a state in which usual medically observable vital signs—such as respiration, heartbeat, and corneal reflex—are not present, but from which patients are sometimes revived
Twelve dogs have been brought back to life with no signs of permanent damage after being clinically dead for two hours.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- No longer used or required
Is this beer glass dead?.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Completely inactive; without power; without a signal
Now that the motor’s dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Full and complete
dead stop; dead sleep; dead giveaway; dead silence.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Without emotion
She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- No longer living
All of my grandparents are dead.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia)
After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat
dead air; a dead glass of soda.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly
That’s dead sure!.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Exact
dead center; dead aim; a dead eye; a dead level.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- plural Those who have died
Have respect for the dead.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Unproductive
dead time; dead fields; also in compounds.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- So hated that they are absolutely ignored
He is dead to me.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Stationary; static
the dead load on the floor; a dead lift.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- singular Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense
The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- to prevent by disabling; stop
What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Not in play
Once the ball crosses the foul line, it’s dead.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Exactly right
He hit the target dead in the centre.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Broken or inoperable
That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> 'n' buried
- Contraction of dead and buried
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> against
- Unequivocally and intransigently opposed to
The person who was most dead against playing the game was Stuart,” says Mick. “But he’s definitely a lot more relaxed about it these days.”.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> air
- An unintended interruption in a radio broadcast during which there is no sound; a similar interruption of a television broadcast in which there is neither sound nor a video signal
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> and buried
- Moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> as a dodo
- Undoubtedly and unquestionably dead
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> as a dodo
- That has become out of date
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> as a doorknob
- Entirely, unquestionably or certainly dead
I found the mouse who lived in our wall, lying on his back with his feet in the air—as dead as a doorknob.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> as a doornail
- Unquestionably dead. Used for both inanimate objects and once living beings
Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door–nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin–nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door–nail.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> asleep
- Sleeping in a deep sleep
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> ball
- The ball when dead and out of play
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> balls
- plural form of dead ball
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> bat
- To play the ball with a dead bat
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> bat
- The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> bird
- a ball which falls over the infielders' heads for a hit as if it were a bird shot by a hunter
Jones got on board with a dead bird to start the innning.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> calm
- A perfectly flat sea with no waves
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> cat bounce
- A temporary recovery in the price of an instrument whose price has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> center
- The position of the crank of a piston when it is in line with the connecting rod
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> centre
- Alternative spelling of dead center
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> cert
- practically guaranteed outcome
It's a dead cert that United will beat City in the cup.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> code
- code that exists in the source, but that will never be executed
Many software projects contain much dead code in the form of deprecated functions.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> code
- instructions that, when executed, have no effect on the running of the program
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> donkey
- In journalistic jargon, a news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> drop
- a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> duck
- A project that is doomed to failure from the start
The government decision meant that the proposed boycott of South African goods was a dead duck.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> duck
- One who is in serious danger or trouble
She's a dead duck if she starts flirting with my boyfriend!.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> ducks
- plural form of dead duck
They are dead ducks if they are still in the car when it explodes!.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> end
- A path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end
That road comes to a dead end at the lake.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> ends
- plural form of dead end
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> first
- First, especially first place in a competition
The Rams, meanwhile, finished dead first in last year's NFL Draft.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> giveaway
- Something that discloses, usually unintentionally, a fact or an intention
Instead of slowing down his arm when he throws it — a dead giveaway to hitters — Igawa had better arm action, Eiland said.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> heat
- a close race or contest in which no winner is apparent
Polls indicated a dead heat for the office of dog catcher.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> heats
- plural form of dead heat
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- The period of work on board ship for which the seamen have been paid in advance (usually a month's wages) the end of this term being celebrated by parading a straw horse about the decks
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- rhyming slang for sauce
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> ice
- Former glacier ice that is not longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving anymore and getting covered with sediments
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> in the water
- Doomed; unable to succeed
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> key
- A special modifier key used to attach a specific diacritic to a letter previously typed
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> keys
- plural form of dead key
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> language
- a language which no longer has any native speakers
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> languages
- plural form of dead language
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> last
- Finishing in last place in a competition or (in sports) the standings, often by a considerable margin to the next-to-last-place finisher or after an exceptionally poor showing or season
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> leg
- an injury caused when a player receives a hard knock on the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> letter
- A law that is no longer enforced
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> letter
- An item of mail that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient; after some time it is returned to the sender, or destroyed
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> letter office
- the postal facility that deals with mail that cannot be delivered
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> level
- Absolutely horizontal or zero slope
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> link
- An HTML hypertext link that points to a webpage or website that is permanently unavailable
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> links
- plural form of dead link
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> load
- The weight of a structure itself, including the weight of fixtures or equipment permanently attached to it
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> man walking
- Someone who is about to die; someone condemned
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> man's brake
- A brake that normally operates under pressure, but engages fully when all pressure is released
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> man's brakes
- plural form of dead man's brake
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> man's hand
- Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> man's hand
- An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> man's hand
- A pair of aces and a pair of eights, in a player's hand
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> man's switch
- a switch that automatically stops a machine or vehicle after a set period of inactivity from the operator
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> marine
- an empty beer bottle
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> meat
- Someone in danger of death or severe punishment
We'll be dead meat if anyone catches us smoking.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> meat
- A corpse
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> media
- Media formats which are no longer used because they have become outmoded
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> men
- The ends of reefs left flapping instead of being tucked out of sight when a sail has been furled
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> men tell no tales
- Once someone is dead, they can no longer communicate, hence killing someone is the best way to keep him/her quiet
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> metaphor
- A former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal, e.g. "electric current" (electricity was at first thought to be analogous to water). Not to be confused with stale metaphor (a type of cliché), although it often is
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> of night
- Middle of the night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> on
- exactly at
The train arrived dead on 2 o'clock.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> on arrival
- found to be dead upon the arrival at hospital
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> on arrival
- Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS), or the police
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> or alive
- Either dead or alive
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> or alive
- Used to indicate someone is being sought for some kind of punishment or reprimand, and that (s)he may be killed in the process of finding, as if this was reasonable punishment
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> president
- A piece of U.S. paper currency
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> presidents
- plural form of dead president
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> presidents
- Money
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> reckoning
- A method of estimating the position of a ship or aircraft by applying estimates of the distance and direction travelled to a previously known position. In respect to ships/boats, it excludes the effect of wind and current on the vessel. Compare with estimated position. Abbreviation: DR
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> ringer
- Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another
He is a dead ringer for his grandfather at that age.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> ringers
- plural form of dead ringer
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> run
- To come as fast as one can, often in a harried state
When she saw smoke coming from the kitchen, the old woman came in on the dead run to remove the burned loaf of bread from the oven.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> set
- By extension, a determined effort
I might not graduate first in my class, but I'll make a dead set at it.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> set
- The rigid pose a hunting dog assumes when pointing out game to a hunter
The judge at the dog show took points off the Irish setter's dead set because its right ear twitched a few times.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> set
- unswervingly dedicated; resolutely determined
The governor is dead set against the concealed weapons permit legislation and will veto it even if it costs her the re-election.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> set against
- Completely opposed, with no possibility of a change of mind
I am dead set against letting the dog sleep in anyone's bedroom.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> sets
- plural form of dead set
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> sleep
- The first sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern
Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. The initial interval of slumber was usually referred to as “first sleep,” or, less often, “first nap” or “dead sleep.”.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> soldier
- An empty container, usually a bottle or can which contained an alcoholic beverage
When my mother drinks beer, she peeks in the bottle to make sure it's a dead soldier.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> soldiers
- plural form of dead soldier
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> space
- Air that is inhaled by the body in breathing, but does not partake in gas exchange
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> space
- Picture information that is either masked off or cropped out of viewing area, whether at the top or bottom, or to the sides
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> sticking
- Landing a normally powered aircraft without power
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> tired
- Very tired; completely exhausted
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> to rights
- With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively
Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> to the world
- Sound asleep
However, he slept right through the night, and was still dead to the world when I slipped out.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> to the world
- Unconscious
Simon hit him from behind on the back of his head. The size of his punch was enough to knock even the toughest senseless. Simon's victim fell to the deck. . . . There he lay, dead to the world.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> to the world
- Without social relationships or communication; without emotional or tangible bonds to others
During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> tree
- made of or pertaining to paper, especially as opposed to a digital alternative
It used to be that SuSE Linux was available in personal and professional; editions, and that the Pro edition came with additional dead tree documentation.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> tree
- A tree that is still standing, but no longer alive. (compare: log, stump)
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> tree
- A quantity of paper; a collection of paper such as a book or newspaper
come out of this wicked, evil world and her seductive, dogmatic, heretical religious systems, all of whom seek to prove their righteousness by manipulating colored marks written on a dead tree.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> tree edition
- Paper version of a publication that can be found online
dead-tree edition Derogatory cyberspeak for the paper version of a periodical.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> tree editions
- plural form of dead tree edition
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> trees
- plural form of dead tree
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> water
- The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> week
- In a college or university, the week immediately preceding finals week
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> weight
- unremitting heavy weight that does not move
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> weight
- that which is useless or excess; that which slows something down
She wants to shed the dead weight of so many stacks of old clutter.
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> white European male
- Any of various white male historical figures in art and culture seen to represent racism, sexism, etc. ingrained into Western education
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> white European males
- plural form of dead white European male
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> wood
- Personnel no longer contributing to an organization
- drawing <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Unable to win a particular hand, no matter what the remaining community cards are
- drop <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- to die suddenly
- drop <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- an angry expletive
- drop-<span class="word-self">deadspan>
- very; impressive or spectacular
My date was drop-dead gorgeous!.
- dry as a <span class="word-self">deadspan> dingo's donger
- Very dry, extremely dry
- dry as a <span class="word-self">deadspan> dingo's donger
- Very thirsty
- flog a <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period
- flog a <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more
- from my cold, <span class="word-self">deadspan> hands
- A statement that one will not allow something (most often a firearm or other weapon) to be taken away from one's possession until after one's death. A variant, from my cold dead fingers, is most often used in the US by gun rights advocates
- leave for <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- to abandon someone, assuming that they will die
When Steele rides after them, they shoot him and leave him for dead in the desert.
- left for <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Simple past tense and past participle of leave for dead
- living <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- The undead; zombies
- not be caught <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- To refuse completely to do something
I would not be caught dead in such a skimpy dress.
- over my <span class="word-self">deadspan> body
- Under no circumstances; absolutely not
Mom: Over my dead body!.
- play <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- to lie very still, as would a corpse
- play <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- to act as though defeated while awaiting a chance to attack
- sit <span class="word-self">deadspan>-red
- When a batter is looking for a four-seam fastball. Popularized by broadcaster and former player Joe Morgan
If I were him, I would sit dead-red on this 3 and 1 pitch and try to launch one.
- stone <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Utterly dead
- stop <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- to stop suddenly
- top <span class="word-self">deadspan> center
- A position in the four-stroke combustion process wherein the piston is at the topmost point in its stroke. This can either be during the compression phase or the combustion phase
- top <span class="word-self">deadspan> center
- The reference mark on a flywheel (and engine block) indicating the engine is in the top dead center position, when aligned
- drop-<span class="word-self">deadspan>
- extremely; "she was drop-dead gorgeous
- better off <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- (Ev ile ilgili) 1. Ususally implying that someone is a useless piece of crap. 2. Situation where there is no upside, therefore the only way out is to commit suicide and/or, be killed. 3. Suggests pain will not yield, and only escape is death
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- {v} to weaken, to make tasteless
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- {n} stillness, quietness, silence, gloom, depth
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- {a} deprived of life, cold, dull, tasteless, lost
- Day of the <span class="word-self">Deadspan>
- November 1 and November 2 collectively, celebrated concurrently with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day in Mexico and parts of Central America in commemoration of the dead. Also called Día de los Muertos
- be caught <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- (deyim) (catch dead) Find or see at any time ― used in strongly negative constructions . "He wouldn't be caught dead in that shirt."
- beat a <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- (deyim) Waste time on something that is a lost cause or likely to be unproductive, flog a dead horse [Brit]
- <span class="word-self">deadspan> point
- The point at the end of each stroke of a moving crank and connecting rod at which the two lie in the same straight line and the turning force applied by the connecting rod is zero. Also called dead center
- flog a <span class="word-self">deadspan> horse
- (deyim) Waste time on something that is a lost cause or likely to be unproductive, beat a dead horse [Amer.]
- <span class="word-self">Deadspan>
- dede
- <span class="word-self">Deadspan>
- deceased
- <span class="word-self">Deadspan>
- deed
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Flat; without gloss; said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Fully and completely motionless
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- zmar [zmar] There's a similar word umar, though I've also heard martwe It's easy to remember: there's a similar cognate in English, as manifest in words like "mortal" and "mortician " Date of entry: 9 May 2000
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- adj [{of animal} not alive] mati 2 adj [{of person} no longer alive] sudah menginggal (tinggal)
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- (1) (B) having no entry
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- > si
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Obsolete or no longer used or required
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- 1) Referring to an acoustically absorbent area or space 2) A slang term for broken
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- emphasis If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future. I thought the whole business was dead and buried
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Deprived of life; opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- emphasis If you reply `Over my dead body' when a plan or action has been suggested, you are emphasizing that you dislike it, and will do everything you can to prevent it. `Let's invite her to dinner.' --- `Over my dead body!'
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep
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- emphasis Dead means `precisely' or `exactly'. Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope Their arrows are dead on target
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- A telephone or piece of electrical equipment that is dead is no longer functioning, for example because it no longer has any electrical power. On another occasion I answered the phone and the line went dead
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- {i} time when there is no life; dead person or persons
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- physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
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- An 1800s baseball term meaning a player who is tagged out
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- acoustics A term applied to a space with little reverberation, or a space with too much sound absorbing material in it Music quality suffers more than speech quality in such a space
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- Completely inactive; without power
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- emphasis Dead is used to mean `complete' or `absolute', especially before the words `centre', `silence', and `stop'. They hurried about in dead silence, with anxious faces Lila's boat came to a dead stop
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- So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor
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- Subclass in the scrub-shrub wetland and forested wetland classes of the Cowardin et al wetland classification in which forested wetlands are dominated by dead woody vegetation (Cowardin et al 1979)
- <span class="word-self">deadspan>
- Having 10 or fewer current hit points, having died from disease, spell, or magical effect, or having failed a Fortitude save against massive damage Death causes the victims soul to leave the body permanently and journey to the realm of the appropriate deity Dead characters cannot benefit from normal or magical healing, but they can be restored to life via raise dead, resurrection, or true resurrection under the circumstances described in those spell descriptions A dead body decays normally unless magically preserved, but magic that restores a dead character to life also restores the body either to full health or to its condition at the time of death (depending on the spell or device)