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Dead : adj
1: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have
life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was
marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: alive(p)]
2: 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" [ant: live]
3: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I
could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after
all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn:
all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]
4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead
volcano of the Cascade Range"
6: total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" [syn: dead(a),
utter(a)]
7: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate";
"inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn: inanimate, nonliving]
[ant: animate]
8: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]
9: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from
the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist
drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by
continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: deadened]
10: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of
some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a
recording studio"
11: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn: idle]
12: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
"stagnant water" [syn: dead(a), stagnant]
13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a
dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
14: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
15: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
16: no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead)
law"; "a defunct organization" [syn: defunct]
17: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
18: sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" [syn: dead(a)]
19: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery";
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery
drained" [syn: drained]
20: lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party
being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until
she arrived" [syn: lifeless]
21: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever
happens here"
(noun)
1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
[ant: living]
2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with
death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
ad(verb)
1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly,
suddenly, short]
2: completely and without qualification; used informally as
intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a
perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right";
"utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my
innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely,
perfectly, utterly]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Sainted \Saint"ed\, a.
1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. ``A most sainted king.''
--Shak.
Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.
--Milton.
2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dead : \Dead\, a.
1. (Elec.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful
effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also
of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and,
therefore, is not in use.
2. Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a
ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in
cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games.
[In golf], a ball is said to lie dead when it lies
so near the hole that the player is certain to hole
it in the next stroke. --Encyc. of
Sport.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dead : \Dead\ (d[e^]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de['a]d; akin
to OS. d[=o]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[eth]r, Sw. &
Dan. d["o]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning
to die. See Die, and cf. Death.]
1. 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. ``The queen, my
lord, is dead.'' --Shak.
The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger.
--Arbuthnot.
Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living.
--Shak.
2. Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
3. Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of
life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
4. Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead
calm; a dead load or weight.
5. So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a
dead floor.
6. Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead
capital; dead stock in trade.
7. Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye;
dead fire; dead color, etc.
8. Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead
wall. ``The ground is a dead flat.'' --C. Reade.
9. Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot;
a dead certainty.
I had them a dead bargain. --Goldsmith.
10. Bringing death; deadly. --Shak.
11. Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith;
dead works. ``Dead in trespasses.'' --Eph. ii. 1.
12. (Paint.)
(a) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has
been applied purposely to have this effect.
(b) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color,
as compared with crimson.
13. (Law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of
the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one
banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
14. (Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead
spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
Dead ahead (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or
any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point
toward which a vessel would go.
Dead angle (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen
or defended from behind the parapet.
Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to
serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car.
Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all.
Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), either of two points
in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and connecting
rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the end of a
stroke; as, A and B are dead centers of the crank
mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by,
the lever L.
Dead color (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it.
Dead coloring (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the
preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this
is usually in monochrome.
Dead door (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the
outside of the quarter-gallery door.
Dead flat (Naut.), the widest or midship frame.
Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person
who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full
cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.
--Abbott.
Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there
is no ore.
Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person
civilly dead. ``Serfs held in dead hand.'' --Morley. See
Mortmain.
Dead head (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor
buoy.
Dead heat, a heat or course between two or more race
horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal,
so that neither wins.
Dead horse, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid
in advance. [Law]
Dead language, a language which is no longer spoken or in
common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as
the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dead : \Dead\, n.
1. The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of
profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of
winter.
When the drum beat at dead of night. --Campbell.
2. One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
And Abraham stood up from before his dead. --Gen.
xxiii. 3.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dead : \Dead\, v. t.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
[Obs.]
Heaven's stern decree, With many an ill, hath numbed
and deaded me. --Chapman.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dead : \Dead\, adv.
To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely;
wholly. [Colloq.]
I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy. --Dickens.
Dead drunk, so drunk as to be unconscious.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dead : \Dead\, v. i.
To die; to lose life or force. [Obs.]
So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth
straightway. --Bacon.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dead :
1. Non-functional; down; crashed. Especially used of
hardware.
2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not
undergoing continued development and support.
[{Jargon File]
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Dead : adj. 1. Non-functional; down; crashed. Especially used of
hardware. 2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing
continued development and support. 3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym:
`live'. Compare dead code.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Dead |
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RenZephyr: @ThereSkippy not sure what type, one generally found in the garden, just found it Dead on the floor |
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scooby718: Listen to jay-z Dead presidents |
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ThePinkDreamer: thank God for online tetris...how would I make it at work? this week & next week are the most Dead weeks of the year... |
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