Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - dead
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Dead
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English deed, from Old English dead; akin to Old Norse dauthr ~, deyja to die, Old High German tot ~ — more at die Date: before 12th century 1. deprived of life ; no longer alive 2. a. (1) having the appearance of death ; deathly in a ~ faint (2) lacking power to move, feel, or respond ; numb b. very tired c. (1) incapable of being stirred emotionally or intellectually ; unresponsive ~ to pity (2) grown cold ; extinguished ~ coals 3. a. inanimate, inert ~ matter b. barren, infertile ~ soil c. no longer producing or functioning ; exhausted a ~ battery 4. a. (1) lacking power or effect a ~ law (2) no longer having interest, relevance, or significance a ~ issue b. no longer in use ; obsolete a ~ language c. no longer active ; extinct a ~ volcano d. lacking in gaiety or animation a ~ party e. (1) lacking in commercial activity ; quiet (2) commercially idle or unproductive ~ capital f. lacking elasticity a ~ tennis ball g. being out of action or out of use the phone went ~; specifically free from any connection to a source of voltage and free from electric charges h. (1) being out of play a ~ ball (2) temporarily forbidden to play or to make a certain play in croquet 5. a. not running or circulating ; stagnant ~ water b. not turning the ~ center of a lathe c. not imparting motion or power although otherwise functioning a ~ rear axle d. lacking warmth, vigor, or taste 6. a. absolutely uniform a ~ level b. (1) unerring (2) exact ~ center of the target (3) certain to be doomed he's ~ if he's late for curfew (4) irrevocable a ~ loss c. abrupt brought to a ~ stop d. (1) complete, absolute a ~ silence (2) all-out caught it on the ~ run 7. devoid of former occupants ~ villages • ~ness noun Synonyms: ~, defunct, deceased, departed, late mean devoid of life. ~ applies literally to what is deprived of vital force but is used figuratively of anything that has lost any attribute (as energy, activity, radiance) suggesting life a ~, listless performance. defunct stresses cessation of active existence or operation a defunct television series. deceased, departed, and late apply to persons who have died recently. deceased is the preferred term in legal use the estate of the deceased. departed is used usually as a euphemism our departed sister. late is used especially with reference to a person in a specific relation or status the company's late president. II. noun (plural ~) Date: before 12th century 1. one that is ~ — usually used collectively 2. the state of being ~ raised him from the ~ — Colossians 2:12 (Revised Standard Version) 3. the time of greatest quiet the ~ of night III. adverb Date: 14th century 1. absolutely, utterly ~ certain finished ~ last 2. suddenly and completely stopped ~ 3. directly ~ ahead
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adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1 no longer alive. 2 colloq. extremely tired or unwell. 3 benumbed; affected by loss of sensation (my fingers are dead). 4 (foll. by to) unappreciative or unconscious of; insensitive to. 5 no longer effective or in use; obsolete, extinct. 6 (of a match, of coal, etc.) no longer burning; extinguished. 7 inanimate. 8 a lacking force or vigour; dull, lustreless, muffled. b (of sound) not resonant. c (of sparkling wine etc.) no longer effervescent. 9 a quiet; lacking activity (the dead season). b motionless, idle. 10 a (of a microphone, telephone, etc.) not transmitting any sound, esp. because of a fault. b (of a circuit, conductor, etc.) carrying or transmitting no current; not connected to a source of electricity (a dead battery). 11 (of the ball in a game) out of play. 12 abrupt, complete, exact, unqualified, unrelieved (come to a dead stop; a dead faint; a dead calm; in dead silence; a dead certainty). 13 without spiritual life. --adv. 1 absolutely, exactly, completely (dead on target; dead level; dead tired). 2 colloq. very, extremely (dead good; dead easy). --n. (prec. by the) 1 (treated as pl.) those who have died. 2 a time of silence or inactivity (the dead of night). Phrases and idioms dead-and-alive Brit. (of a place, person, activity, etc.) dull, monotonous; lacking interest. dead as the dodo see DODO. dead as a doornail see DOORNAIL. dead bat Cricket a bat held loosely so that it imparts no motion to the ball when struck. dead beat 1 colloq. exhausted. 2 Physics (of an instrument) without recoil. dead-beat n. 1 colloq. a penniless person. 2 US sl. a person constantly in debt. dead centre 1 the exact centre. 2 the position of a crank etc. in line with the connecting-rod and not exerting torque. dead cert see CERT. dead duck sl. an unsuccessful or useless person or thing. dead end 1 a closed end of a road, passage, etc. 2 (often (with hyphen) attrib.) a situation offering no prospects of progress or advancement. dead-eye Naut. a round flat three-holed block for extending shrouds. dead from the neck...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) мёртвый 2) умерший 3) бездействующий 4) вышедший из употребления 5) горн. пустой (о породе, не содержащей ценного минерала) 6) обесточенный, отключённый от источника 7) безжизненный 8) испорченный, бракованный engine is dead — мотор заглох ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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прил. 1) мертвый, погибший, безжизненный 2) недействующий 3) застойный • - dead capital - dead hand - dead in the water - dead law - dead letter - dead loss - dead season - dead storage ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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мёртвый; снулый (о рыбе); опавший (о листе); засохший (о листе); сухостойный (о дереве); бесплодный (о почве) ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. собир. мертвые, умершие, покойники the dead and the living —- мертвые и живые to rise from the dead —- восстать из мертвых to raise smb. from the dead —- воскресить кого-л. 2. глухая пора the dead of winter —- глухая зимняя пора in the dead of night —- глубокой ночью, в глухую полночь 3. разг. письмо, не востребованное адресатом 4. сл. ам. бездельник, паразит 5. горн. пустая порода 6. мертвый; умерший; дохлый dead body —- труп dead cat —- дохлая кошка to drop dead on the floor —- замертво упасть на пол to shoot smb. dead —- застрелить кого-л. to beat smb. dead —- забить кого-л. he is dead and gone —- он давно умер he is dead and done for —- он умер, с ним все кончено he is a dead man —- ему крышка, он приговорен, ему конец 7. связанный со смертью dead list —- список погибших dead news —- известие о смерти; черная весть dead march —- похоронный марш 8. безжизненный; как у мертвеца dead eyes —- мертвенный взор a face dead with fright —- лицо, помертвевшее от страха 9. погибший, кончившийся the past is dead —- прошлого не вернешь my doubts are dead —- мои сомнения рассеялись 10. увядший; погибший dead flowers —- увядшие цветы dead leaves —- засохшие листья 11. из сухих листьев, веток и т. п. dead hedge —- забор из хвороста, плетень 12. неодушевленный, неживой dead matter —- неживая материя; неорганическое вещество 13. лишенный...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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marines coll. пустые винные бутылки DEAD march noun похоронный марш DEAD mans handle noun автоматический тормоз в электропоездах (останавливающий поезд в случае внезапного заболевания или смерти водителя) DEAD loss чистый убыток; DEAD load noun tech. мертвый груз; собственный вес, вес конструкции; постоянная нагрузка DEAD lime гашеная известь DEAD letter noun 1) не применяющийся, но и не отмененный закон 2) письмо, не востребованное адресатом или не доставленное ему DEAD leaf aeron. падение листом DEAD hours глухие часы ночи DEAD horse работа, за которую было заплачено вперед DEAD hedge плетень DEAD heat noun sport одновременный финиш; финиш грудь в грудь DEAD ground noun mil.; aeron. мертвое пространство DEAD reckoning noun naut.; aeron. навигационное счисление (пути) DEAD meat noun coll. проблема, трудность DEAD faint полная потеря сознания DEAD failure полная неудача DEAD end тупик DEAD earth noun electr. полное заземление DEAD earnest твердая решимость DEAD duck noun coll. дохлый номер DEAD drunk мертвецки пьяный DEAD colour noun paint. грунтовка DEAD certainty полная уверенность DEAD centre noun мертвая точка DEAD calm совершенно спокойный DEAD asleep заснувший мертвым сном DEAD and gone давно прошедший DEAD against а) как раз в лицо (о ветре) б) решительно против DEAD 1. adj. 1) мертвый, умерший;...Англо-русский словарь
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Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living. Her husband’s been dead a year now... The group had shot dead another hostage. ...old newspapers and dead flowers. ? alive ADJ • The dead are people who are dead. The dead included six people attending a religious ceremony. N-PLURAL: the N 2. If you describe a place or a period of time as dead, you do not like it because there is very little activity taking place in it. ...some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies... ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval 3. Something that is dead is no longer being used or is finished. The dead cigarette was still between his fingers... ADJ 4. 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... ADJ 5. 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. ADJ: usu ADJ n 6. 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. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 7. In sport, when a ball is dead, it has gone outside the playing area, or a situation has occurred in which the game has to be temporarily stopped, and none of the players can score points or gain an advantage. (JOURNALISM) ADJ 8. 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. ADJ: ADJ n c darkgreen]emphasis 9. Dead means ‘precisely’ or ‘exactly’. Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope... Their arrows are dead on target... ADV: ADV prep/adv/adj c...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~1 adj no comparative »NO LONGER ALIVE OR EXISTING« 1 no longer alive (Her mother had been dead for ten years. | dead leaves | dead body (=the body of a person who has died) | dead as a doornail/stone dead informal (=completely dead with no signs of life at all) | drop dead (=die suddenly when no-one expects it)) (37 years old, no health problems, and he just dropped dead at work!) (- compare live2 (1)) 2 the dead people who have died, especially people who have been killed (There wasn't even time to bury the dead.) 3 rise from the dead/come back from the dead according to Christian beliefs, to become alive again after dying »HAVING NO POWER/NOT WORKING« 4 dead battery/engine etc an engine etc that no longer works because it has no electricity 5 »TELEPHONES ETC« a telephone line, radio etc that is dead is not working and makes no sound when you try to use it (All the lines out of town are dead. | go dead) (Suddenly the radio went dead.) »HAVING NO FEELING OR ENERGY« 6 arm/leg etc a part of your body that is dead has no feeling in it (go dead) (When I got up my leg had gone totally dead.) 7 »NO EMOTION« showing no emotion or sympathy (Jennie's eyes were cold and dead.) +to (dead to all feelings of compassion) 8 »TIRED« spoken very tired (I can't go out tonight. I'm absolutely dead!) 9 dead to the world very deeply asleep or unconscious (Better leave Craig - he's dead to the world.) »NOT INTERESTING, USEFUL, OR IMPORTANT« 10 »BORING« a town that is dead is boring because nothing interesting or exciting happens there, and there is nothing interesting to do (This place is dead after nine o'clock.) 11 »IDEA/SUBJECT« dead and buried an argument, problem, plan etc that is dead and buried is not worth considering again (You're talking as if the issue of low pay is dead and buried.) 12 a dead duck informal a plan, idea etc that is not worth considering because it is very likely to fail 13 be a dead loss informal to be completely useless (That building firm's a dead loss.) 14 dead as a dodo no longer...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Английский словарь американских идиом
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- O.E. dead, from P.Gmc. *dauthaz, from PIE *dheu-. Used from 16c. in adj. sense of "utter, absolute, quite." Dead heat is from 1796; deadbeat "worthless sponging idler" is recorded from 1877 in Amer.Eng. slang; earlier used colloquially to mean "completely beat" (1821). Dead reckoning may be from nautical abbreviation ded. ("deduced") in log book. Dead man's hand in poker, pair of aces and pair of eights, supposedly what Wild Bill Hickock held when Jack McCall shot him in 1876. Dead soldier "emptied liquor bottle" is military slang from 1913. Deadpan is 1930s; dead on is 1889, from marksmanship; dead drunk first attested 1602; dead duck is from 1844. Dead letter is from 1703; Deadhead is 1970s in sense of "devotee of the band the Grateful Dead," earlier "train or truck carrying no passengers or freight" (1911) and "non-paying spectator" (1841). Dead Sea is L. Mare Mortum, Gk. he nekra thalassa (Aristotle); its water is 26 percent salt (as opposed to 3 or 4 percent in most oceans) and supports practically no life. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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