| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb Present Tense | 1. Present tense conjugation of the verb dead.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dead) | 1. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.[Websters]. 2. To die; to lose life or force.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: deading, deaded, deads, deader, deaders, deadingly and deadedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DEADS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dead
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Satire | DEAD, adj. Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the mad race run Though to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole! Squatol Johnes Source: Devil's Dictionary | ||
| Computing | 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. Source: Jargon File. | ||
| 19th Century Satire | Without life. See Boston. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: To dream that you are conversing with a dead relative, and that relative endeavors to extract a promise from you, warns you of coming distress, unless you follow the advice given you. Disastrous consequences could often be averted if minds could grasp the inner workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self. The voice of relatives is only that higher self taking form to approach more distinctly the mind that lives near the material plane. There is so little congeniality between common or material natures that persons should depend upon their own subjectivity for true contentment and pleasure. 2: To dream of the dead, is usually a dream of warning. If you see and talk with your father, some unlucky transaction is about to be made by you. Be careful how you enter into contracts, enemies are around you. Men and women are warned to look to their reputations after this dream. 3: To see your mother, warns you to control your inclination to cultivate morbidness and ill will towards your fellow creatures. A brother, or other relatives or friends, denotes that you may be called on for charity or aid within a short time. 4: To dream of seeing the dead, living and happy, signifies you are letting wrong influences into your life, which will bring material loss if not corrected by the assumption of your own will force. 5: Paracelsus says on this subject: "It may happen that the soul of persons who have died perhaps fifty years ago may appear to us in a dream, and if it speaks to us we should pay special attention to what it says, for such a vision is not an illusion or delusion, and it is possible that a man is as much able to use his reason during the sleep of his body as when the latter is awake; and if in such a case such a soul appears to him and he asks questions, he will then hear that which is true. Through these solicitous souls we may obtain a great deal of knowledge to good or to evil things if we ask them to reveal them to us. Many persons have had such prayers granted to them. Some people that were sick have been informed during their sleep what remedies they should use, and after using the remedies, they became cured, and such things have happened not only to Christians, but also to Jews, Persians, and heathens, to good and to bad persons." Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Electrical Engineering | Applying to a device or circuit to indicate that a voltage is not applied. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Law | DEAD. Something which has no life; figuratively, something of no value. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: Dead Dead as a door-nail. The door-nail is the plate or knob on which the knocker or hammer strikes. As this nail is knocked on the head several times a day, it cannot be supposed to have much life left in it. 2: "Falstaff. What! is the old king dead? 3: "Come thou and thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail, I pray God I may never eat grass more." -Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iv. 10. (Jack Cade.) 4: Pistol. As nail in door." 5: Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., v. 3. 6: The wind is dead against us. Directly opposed to our direction. Instead of making the ship more lively, its tendency is quite the contrary. It makes a "dead set" at our progress. 7: "Let me entreat you to let the dead bury the dead, to cast behind you every recollection of bygone evils, and to cherish, to love,to sustain one another through all the vicissitudes of human affairs in the times that are to come." - Gladstone: Home Rule Bill (February 13th, 1893). 8: Dead as a herring. (See Herring.) 9: Dead He is dead. "Gone to the world of light." "Joined the majority." 10: Dead Let the dead bury the dead. Let bygones be bygones. Don't rake up old and dead grievances. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mining | A. Said of a mine, vein, or piece of ground that is unproductive. b. Said of coal that is under no pressure, does not warp and burst, and makes no sound. CF:alive c. In economic geology, said of an economically valueless area, incontrast to a quick area or ore; barren ground. (references) | ||
| Patents | A dead or abandoned status for a trademark application means that specific application is no longer under prosecution within the USPTO, and would not be used as a bar against your filing. It does not necessarily mean that there are not other marks that the trademark examining attorney would cite. It is also possible to revive an abandoned application (for example, if the USPTO declared the application abandoned for failure of the applicant to respond to an Office action, but the applicant later proved that a response was sent and the USPTO simply failed to match it with the file in a timely manner, then the case could be revived). Also, regardless of the status of an application within the USPTO, the owner may still claim common law rights. (references) | ||
| Slang | Adverb. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: Very, extremely. Context: Used to intensify the description of an experience. Social Source: British Students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | ||
| Technology | Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: DEADS
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Electric Deads | The Electric Deads was the name of a Danish hardcore punk band. The band was formed by Kevin Andreasson and Nils Normann in November 1981. The band broke up in the summer of 1984. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: dead
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Baptism for the dead | Bible | Baptism for the dead only mentioned in 1 Cor. 15:29. This expression as used by the apostle may be equivalent to saying, "He who goes through a baptism of blood in order to join a glorified church which has no existence [i.e., if the dead rise not] is a fool." Some also regard the statement here as an allusion to the strange practice which began, it is said, to prevail at Corinth, in which a person was baptized in the stead of others who had died before being baptized, to whom it was hoped some of the benefits of that rite would be extended. This they think may have been one of the erroneous customs which Paul went to Corinth to "set in order." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | |
| Bleeding of a Dead Body | Literature | (The). It was at one time believed that, at the approach of a murderer, the blood of the murdered body gushed out. If in a dead body the slightest change was observable in the eyes, mouth, feet, or hands, the murderer was supposed to be present. The notion still survives in some places. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Book of the Dead | Antiquities | Book of the Dead. A famous funerary work of the ancient Egyptians, consisting of prayers and exorcisms intended for the benefit of the soul on its journey through Amenti (Hades). Such being its purpose, portions of it were placed with the mummy when entombed. Nearly one half of all the Egyptian papyri now in existence consist of copies of this work, and from them a good text of the whole has been constructed by Naville, in Das Aegyptische Todtenbuch der XVIII bis XX Dynastie (Berlin, 1886). See, also, an interesting review of this work by Miss Edwards in the Academy (London) for September 10th, 1887. (references) | |
| Dead air | Mining | A. Stagnant air b. The air of a mine when it contains carbonic acid gas (blackdamp), orwhen ventilation is sluggish. (references) | |
| Dead air | Slang | Noun. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: There is no audio transmitting out onto the air-waves and something is wrong. Context: Used by everyone who knows the radio world. Social Source: KRVM Radio Station Employees. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Dead arm | Food & Agriculture | Disease of vines caused by a fungus ( cryptosporella viticola, fusicoccum viticolum ) which attacks leaves, flower clusters and canes and may gradually kill the arm. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Dead axle | Energy | Non powered rear axle on tandem truck or tractor. (references) | |
| Dead band | Aerospace | An arrangement incorporated in a guidance system which prevents an error from being corrected until that error exceeds a specified magnitude. (references) | |
| Dead band | Electrical Engineering | The range of variation within which the controller does not operate. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Dead band | Mining | In flotation, the range through which an input can be varied withoutinitiating response. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: DEADS
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| DEADS | English | Detection of effluent aromatic dead stuff | N/A | |
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