Definition von dead im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- No longer used or required
Is this beer glass dead?.
- Completely inactive; without power; without a signal
Now that the motor’s dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- Full and complete
dead stop; dead sleep; dead giveaway; dead silence.
- Without emotion
She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- No longer living
All of my grandparents are dead.
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia)
After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
- 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.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat
dead air; a dead glass of soda.
- Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly
That’s dead sure!.
- Exact
dead center; dead aim; a dead eye; a dead level.
- plural Those who have died
Have respect for the dead.
- Unproductive
dead time; dead fields; also in compounds.
- So hated that they are absolutely ignored
He is dead to me.
- Stationary; static
the dead load on the floor; a dead lift.
- singular Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense
The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- Exactly right
He hit the target dead in the centre.
- to prevent by disabling; stop
What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”.
- Not in play
Once the ball crosses the foul line, it’s dead.
- Broken or inoperable
That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
- {v} to weaken, to make tasteless
- {n} stillness, quietness, silence, gloom, depth
- {a} deprived of life, cold, dull, tasteless, lost
- Flat; without gloss; said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect
- To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly
- Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc
- 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"
- Fully and completely motionless
- quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
- 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
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- (1) (B) having no entry
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- Obsolete or no longer used or required
- 1) Referring to an acoustically absorbent area or space 2) A slang term for broken
- 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
- 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
- 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!'
- Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep
- emphasis Dead means `precisely' or `exactly'. Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope Their arrows are dead on target
- 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
- {i} time when there is no life; dead person or persons
- physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
- An 1800s baseball term meaning a player who is tagged out
- 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
- Completely inactive; without power
- 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
- So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor
- 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)
- 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 victim’s 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)
- emphasis Dead is sometimes used to mean `very'. I am dead against the legalisation of drugs
- emphasis If you say that someone or something is dead in the water, you are emphasizing that they have failed, and that there is little hope of them being successful in the future. A `no' vote would have left the treaty dead in the water
- So hated by that they are absolutely ignored
- Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty
- Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight
- in racing, a dead machine is one that is stopped, or on the ground, out of action
- 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"
- Persons confirmed as dead and persons missing and presumed dead
- A dead language is no longer spoken or written as a means of communication, although it may still be studied. We used to grumble that we were wasting time learning a dead language
- emphasis If you say that you wouldn't be seen dead or be caught dead in particular clothes, places, or situations, you are expressing strong dislike or disapproval of them. I wouldn't be seen dead in a straw hat
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
- Bringing death; deadly
- If you say that an idea, plan, or subject is dead, you mean that people are no longer interested in it or willing to develop it any further. It's a dead issue, Baxter
- Not alive; lacking life; no longer living
- (adj ) SU, shoo
- 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
- devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
- 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"
- Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense
- totally; suddenly; absolutely; certainly; (Slang) extremely, very (e.g., "Our vacation in the Bahamas was dead good")
- If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly. He dropped dead on the quayside
- Dead Sea
- A lake in the Middle East, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest point on Earth
- Dead 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.
- Dead Sea apples
- plural form of Dead Sea apple
- dead 'n' buried
- Contraction of dead and buried
- dead 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.”.
- dead 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
- dead and buried
- Moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten
- dead as a dodo
- That has become out of date
- dead as a dodo
- Undoubtedly and unquestionably dead
- dead 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.
- dead 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.
- dead asleep
- Sleeping in a deep sleep
- dead ball
- The ball when dead and out of play
- dead balls
- plural form of dead ball
- dead bat
- To play the ball with a dead bat
- dead 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
- dead 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.
- dead calm
- A perfectly flat sea with no waves
- dead 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
- dead center
- The position of the crank of a piston when it is in line with the connecting rod
- dead centre
- Alternative spelling of dead center
- dead cert
- practically guaranteed outcome
It's a dead cert that United will beat City in the cup.
- dead code
- instructions that, when executed, have no effect on the running of the program
- dead 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.
- dead 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
- dead drop
- a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet
- dead duck
- One who is in serious danger or trouble
She's a dead duck if she starts flirting with my boyfriend!.
- dead 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.
- dead ducks
- plural form of dead duck
They are dead ducks if they are still in the car when it explodes!.
- dead end
- A path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end
That road comes to a dead end at the lake.
- dead ends
- plural form of dead end
- dead first
- First, especially first place in a competition
The Rams, meanwhile, finished dead first in last year's NFL Draft.
- dead 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.
- dead heat
- a close race or contest in which no winner is apparent
Polls indicated a dead heat for the office of dog catcher.
- dead heats
- plural form of dead heat
- dead 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
- dead horse
- rhyming slang for sauce
- dead ice
- Former glacier ice that is not longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving anymore and getting covered with sediments
- dead in the water
- Doomed; unable to succeed
- dead key
- A special modifier key used to attach a specific diacritic to a letter previously typed
- dead keys
- plural form of dead key
- dead language
- a language which no longer has any native speakers
- dead languages
- plural form of dead language
- dead 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
- dead leg
- an injury caused when a player receives a hard knock on the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone
- dead letter
- An item of mail that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient; after some time it is returned to the sender, or destroyed
- dead letter
- A law that is no longer enforced
- dead letter office
- the postal facility that deals with mail that cannot be delivered
- dead level
- Absolutely horizontal or zero slope
- dead link
- An HTML hypertext link that points to a webpage or website that is permanently unavailable
- dead links
- plural form of dead link
- dead load
- The weight of a structure itself, including the weight of fixtures or equipment permanently attached to it
- dead man walking
- Someone who is about to die; someone condemned
- dead man's brake
- A brake that normally operates under pressure, but engages fully when all pressure is released
- dead man's brakes
- plural form of dead man's brake
- dead man's hand
- Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens
- dead man's hand
- A pair of aces and a pair of eights, in a player's hand
- dead man's hand
- An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- dead man's switch
- a switch that automatically stops a machine or vehicle after a set period of inactivity from the operator
- dead marine
- an empty beer bottle
- dead meat
- Someone in danger of death or severe punishment
We'll be dead meat if anyone catches us smoking.
- dead meat
- A corpse
- dead media
- Media formats which are no longer used because they have become outmoded
- dead men
- The ends of reefs left flapping instead of being tucked out of sight when a sail has been furled
- dead 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
- dead 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
- dead of night
- Middle of the night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
- dead on
- exactly at
The train arrived dead on 2 o'clock.
- dead on arrival
- Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS), or the police
- dead on arrival
- found to be dead upon the arrival at hospital
- dead 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
- dead or alive
- Either dead or alive
- dead president
- A piece of U.S. paper currency
- dead presidents
- Money
- dead presidents
- plural form of dead president
- dead 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
- dead 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.
- dead ringers
- plural form of dead ringer
- dead 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.
- dead set
- By extension, a determined effort
I might not graduate first in my class, but I'll make a dead set at it.
- dead 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.
- dead 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.
- dead 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.
- dead sets
- plural form of dead set
- dead 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.”.
- dead 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.
- dead soldiers
- plural form of dead soldier
- dead space
- Picture information that is either masked off or cropped out of viewing area, whether at the top or bottom, or to the sides
- dead space
- Air that is inhaled by the body in breathing, but does not partake in gas exchange
- dead sticking
- Landing a normally powered aircraft without power
- dead tired
- Very tired; completely exhausted
- dead to rights
- With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively
Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty.
- dead to the world
- Sound asleep
However, he slept right through the night, and was still dead to the world when I slipped out.
- dead 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.
- dead 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.
- dead tree
- A tree that is still standing, but no longer alive. (compare: log, stump)
- dead 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.
- dead 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.
- dead tree edition
- Paper version of a publication that can be found online
dead-tree edition Derogatory cyberspeak for the paper version of a periodical.
- dead tree editions
- plural form of dead tree edition
- dead trees
- plural form of dead tree
- dead water
- The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter
- dead week
- In a college or university, the week immediately preceding finals week
- dead weight
- unremitting heavy weight that does not move
- dead 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.
- dead white European male
- Any of various white male historical figures in art and culture seen to represent racism, sexism, etc. ingrained into Western education
- dead white European males
- plural form of dead white European male
- dead wood
- Personnel no longer contributing to an organization
- dead-air space
- A sealed airspace in a cavity wall
- dead-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.
- dead-end
- To come to a dead-end
Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!.
- dead-end
- Going nowhere; blocked
a dead-end job.
- dead-in-shell
- When the embryo in an egg develops part way but dies without hatching
- dead-president
- Attributive form of dead presidents, noun
I want some dead-president action, you one-armed bandit!.
- dead-red
- A four-seam fastball
The pitch was dead-red.
- dead-set
- Alternative spelling of dead set
- dead-tree
- Alternative spelling of dead tree
- dead-heat
- a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner
- dead cat bounce
- (Finans) (Stock Exchange) A temporary recovery in share prices after a substantial fall
- dead 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
- deader
- Comparative form of dead: more dead.; or at least more evidently dead
The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot.
- deadliness
- Tedium, or the quality of being boring
- deadly
- lethal
- deadly
- excellent, awesome, cool
- deadly
- Fatally, mortally
perceiving himselfe deadly wounded by a shot received in his body, being by his men perswaded to come off and retire himselfe from out the throng, answered, he would not now so neere his end, begin to turn his face from his enemie.
- deadly
- In a way which suggests death
Her face suddenly became deadly white.
- deadness
- A lack of elasticity
He complained that the deadness of the balls affected his game.
- deadness
- The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead
O may it be my constant care to watch and pray; the neglect of which was the chief cause of my former deadness.
- deadness
- A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink
The deadness of the champagne made it undrinkable.
- deadly
- {a} mortally, irreconcileably, very
- deadly
- {a} destructive, mortal, dangerous, cruel
- deadness
- {n} faintness, a want of warmth
- dead on
- Precisely accurate and to the point: “She avoids big scenes... preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue” (Peter S. Prescott)
- Deadly
- deathlike
- The Dead
- {i} U.S. rock and roll band from the 1960s-90s
- The dead
- fallen
- dead end
- If a street is a dead end, there is no way out at one end of it
- dead end
- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations"
- dead end
- The end of a rope or part of a device that is not active or load carrying
- dead end
- A dead end job or course of action is one that you think is bad because it does not lead to further developments or progress. Waitressing was a dead-end job
- dead end
- {i} cul de sac, street which has no exit; something which has no future, something which will never produce positive results
- dead end
- The end of a water main which is not connected to other parts of the distribution system Source: US EPA
- dead end
- The end of a rope or part of a device that is not active or load carrying Also called the bitter end
- dead end
- a passage with access only at one end
- dead end
- The end of a water main which is not connected to other parts of the distribution system by means of a connecting loop of pipe
- dead end
- The pulley at the end of a bi-parting traveler track, where the rope comes from the curtain and then returns out to move the other half of the curtain
- dead end
- The end of a water main which is not connected to other parts of the distribution system
- deader
- Anyone in the dead-book
- deader
- One who is deceased, or will shortly become so
- deader
- more dead, or at least more evidently dead
