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dead [ded]
a. 死的, 不活泼的, 麻木的, 熄灭的
n. 死者
ad. 完全地, 直接地
[医] 死亡的, 麻木的
- His love for you is dead.
他对你的爱情已不复存在。 - He was dead asleep.
他酣然大睡。 - It lay there with its eyes closed, dead as a doornail.
它躺在那里眼睛闭著，确实死了。
dead
[ noun ]
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
<noun.group>
they buried the dead
<noun.time>
the dead of winter
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
<adj.all>
the nerve is dead
a dead pallor
he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
<adj.all>
Mars is a dead planet
dead soil
dead coals
the fire is dead
- quickly and without warning
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
<adv.all>
he stopped suddenly
<adv.all>
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
- very tired
- unerringly accurate
- physically inactive
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking resilience or bounce
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- no longer having force or relevance
- complete
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- devoid of activity
<adj.all>
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
<adj.all>
a dead shot
took dead aim
<adj.all>
Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
<adj.all>
passersby were dead to our plea for help
numb to the cries for mercy
<adj.all>
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
<adj.all>
dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs
the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
<adj.all>
dead capital
idle funds
<adj.all>
dead air
dead water
stagnant water
<adj.all>
Latin is a dead language
<adj.all>
a dead tennis ball
<adj.all>
a dead telephone line
the motor is dead
<adj.all>
a dead issue
<adj.all>
came to a dead stop
utter seriousness
<adj.all>
a dead battery
left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
<adj.all>
this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here
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}.
15. (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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
16. 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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.
{Dead plate} (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire
grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part.
{Dead pledge}, a mortgage. See {Mortgage}.
{Dead point}. (Mach.) See {Dead center}.
{Dead reckoning} (Naut.), the method of determining the place
of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as
given by compass, and the distance made on each course as
found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the
aid of celestial observations.
{Dead rise}, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's
floor.
{Dead rising}, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to
determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the
ship's length.
{Dead-Sea apple}. See under {Apple}.
{Dead set}. See under {Set}.
{Dead shot}.
(a) An unerring marksman.
(b) A shot certain to be made.
{Dead smooth}, the finest cut made; -- said of files.
{Dead wall} (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or
other openings.
{Dead water} (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a
ship's stern when sailing.
{Dead weight}.
(a) A heavy or oppressive burden. --Dryden.
(b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy
goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo.
(c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live
weight being the load. --Knight.
{Dead wind} (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the
ship's course.
{To be dead}, to die. [Obs.]
I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. --Chaucer.
Syn: Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See {Lifeless}.
Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), 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.
Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), 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.
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.
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.
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}.
15. (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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
16. 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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.
{Dead plate} (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire
grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part.
{Dead pledge}, a mortgage. See {Mortgage}.
{Dead point}. (Mach.) See {Dead center}.
{Dead reckoning} (Naut.), the method of determining the place
of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as
given by compass, and the distance made on each course as
found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the
aid of celestial observations.
{Dead rise}, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's
floor.
{Dead rising}, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to
determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the
ship's length.
{Dead-Sea apple}. See under {Apple}.
{Dead set}. See under {Set}.
{Dead shot}.
(a) An unerring marksman.
(b) A shot certain to be made.
{Dead smooth}, the finest cut made; -- said of files.
{Dead wall} (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or
other openings.
{Dead water} (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a
ship's stern when sailing.
{Dead weight}.
(a) A heavy or oppressive burden. --Dryden.
(b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy
goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo.
(c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live
weight being the load. --Knight.
{Dead wind} (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the
ship's course.
{To be dead}, to die. [Obs.]
I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. --Chaucer.
Syn: Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See {Lifeless}.
Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), 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.
Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), 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.
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.
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.
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}.
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}.
- Yasukuni Shrine was established in 1869 to honor Japan's war dead.
- If it hadn't been for that destroyer, I would probably be dead," Nguyen, 20, said in an interview just before Independence Day.
- On Thursday, the mine owner, Anglo-American Corp., announced that a fourth miner had been found dead underground, but gave no further information.
- Company officials said 22 workers were missing and presumed dead.
- Iran and Iraq traded missile attacks, with Tehran radio reporting four dead in attacks on the capital.
- Doctors say the 3-year-old girl was alert and well Thursday, three days after she was found frozen and clinically dead in a snowdrift outside her mobile home in Elkins, W.Va.
- It said the dead, taken to hospitals in Cairo and Ismailiya, included three women.
- Others carried a large photograph of the dead student.
- They took him to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later, she said.
- "If I'd have had to kick it (addiction) in the streets, I'd have been dead for sure," Warnke said.
- The army said seven of the dead ranged in age from 18 to 21. It withheld information on the eighth victim.
- Burma's worst riots since democracy was overthrown 26 years ago have left at least 80 people dead this week, and unofficial reports said many victims were unarmed students and Buddhist monks.
- Riots left at least 270 people dead in Venezuela in February after the government announced a new austerity program to please that country's creditors.
- According to the royal palace, the crackdown left 10 people dead and 107 injured throughout the country on April 6. But witnesses said at least 200 people were killed in Katmandu alone.
- "They said the idea (of an independent, French-speaking Quebec) was dead; it is alive," a jubilant Jacques Parizeau said Monday night.
- When he suggested last month that he, George Harrison and Ringo Starr may come together for a reunion, Harrison responded there wouldn't be one "as long as John Lennon remains dead." McCartney said Thursday he understood.
- The 11-pound, full-term baby was less than five hours old when it was found dead in a plastic bag outside an apartment complex Wednesday.
- Should we both be involved in an accident - an air crash - and were both found dead, would one be presumed to have died before the other?
- The fowl visitors arrived in the dead of night and announced their presence in the customary way: with loud crowing to greet the dawn.
- There were 24 fatalities confirmed Wednesday, and toll could reach 30 dead, said John Plunk, acting director of the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency.
- "When she landed that time, she played dead with fires going on each side of her," Weed said.
- Both union officials and Greyhound's Currey issued condolence messages to the dead man's family, but Currey went on to suggest the strikers were at fault.
- A third of the Clintons' friends, Mr Vince Foster, another White House lawyer, was found dead last summer, in an apparent suicide. Mr Hubbell's resignation comes just as the administration seemed to be taking the offensive in the Whitewater affair.
- Shelling by Taylor's troops left five members of the West African force dead last week.
- The dead, including a U.S. college student, are believed to be the victims of a cult that performed human sacrifices and mutilations to bring magical protection to drug smuggling.
- It said he was found dead in Ketziot prison Friday and a 23-year-old Palestinian inmate said he killed Rabiya because the victim was an informer, the radio said.
- In the past three years, ethnic clashes have left as many as 700 people dead in this city of 9 million, Pakistan's largest.
- In Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride it is the return from the dead of a she-devil to haunt the lives of three middle aged women.
- The drug cartels responded with an offensive of their own. Police blame them for hundreds of bombings and other attacks that have left nearly 300 people dead.
- The attacks raised the casualty toll to 11 dead and 45 wounded since fighting began Sunday between the Shiite Jaafar clan and residents of the Catholic town of Qoubaiyat, 70 miles northeast of Beirut.
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