<B>deadlock, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a condition or situation in which activity between two opposing sides stops because they are equally strong and neither one will give in; complete standstill. <BR> <I>Ex. Employers and strikers had reached a deadlock in their dispute over higher wages.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a tied score in a game. <BR> <I>Ex. Pennsylvania produced the first of the game's two deadlocks at 5:26 of the second quarter (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a very strong, springless lock with a bolt opened by a key or by turning a knob. <BR> <I>Ex. Lock him out with a Yale ... deadlock (Punch).</I> <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to bring or come to a complete standstill. <BR> <I>Ex. The employer and strikers have been deadlocked for almost a week. Both disputants denied any part in deadlocking the collective bargaining process (Wall Street Journal). Yale and Harvard had deadlocked for the team title (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to lock with a deadlock. <BR> <I>Ex. Both handle and bolt are automatically deadlocked against turning (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>deadly, </B>adjective, <B>-lier,</B> <B>-liest,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>causing death; likely to cause death; fatal. <BR> <I>Ex. a deadly wound, a deadly disease, the deadly berries of a poisonous bush.</I> (SYN) mortal, lethal. <DD><B> 2. </B>like that of death. <BR> <I>Ex. deadly paleness, deadly stillness.</I> (SYN) deathly. <DD><B> 3. </B>until death. <BR> <I>Ex. The deadly enemies had a fierce hatred for each other.</I> (SYN) implacable. <DD><B> 4. </B>causing death of the soul. <BR> <I>Ex. Envy and pride are deadly sins.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>dull; boring. <BR> <I>Ex. a deadly lecture by a tiresome speaker.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Informal.) extreme; intense. <BR> <I>Ex. Why such deadly haste to make money? (Thomas Carlyle).</I> (SYN) excessive. <DD><B> 7. </B>absolutely accurate. <BR> <I>Ex. Daniel Boone was a deadly shot.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>penetrating; incisive. <BR> <I>Ex. Its smiling but deadly analysis of the upper strata of French society is the product of the Dreyfus period (Edmund Wilson).</I> <DD><I>adv. </I> <B>1. </B>like death. <BR> <I>Ex. deadly pale. So coldly sweet, so deadly fair (Byron).</I> (SYN) deathly. <DD><B> 2. </B>extremely; intensely. <BR> <I>Ex. deadly cold weather. "Washing dishes is deadly dull," she said.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>as if dead. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) mortally; fatally. </DL>
<A NAME="deadlyagaric">
<B>deadly agaric,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any of various poisonous mushrooms, as the fly agaric and the death cup. </DL>
<B>dead-man's control,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a control of a locomotive, heavy machinery, or other dangerous equipment that automatically engages a brake when the operator's hand or foot is removed from the control. </DL>
<A NAME="deadmansfloat">
<B>dead-man's float,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> floating motionless on the surface of the water with the head down. </DL>
<A NAME="deadmanshandle">
<B>dead-man's handle,</B> <B>pedal,</B> or <B>throttle,</B> =dead-man's control.</DL>
<A NAME="deadmarch">
<B>dead march,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a solemn funeral march, especially at a military funeral. </DL>
<A NAME="deadmouthed">
<B>dead-mouthed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (of a horse) having a mouth no longer sensitive to the bit. <BR> <I>Ex. ... provided also that if I have dead-mouthed horses I am allowed proper bits in which to drive them (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadonarrival">
<B>dead-on-arrival, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an electronic circuit which fails to operate when first used in equipment. </DL>
<A NAME="deadpan">
<B>deadpan, </B>noun, adjective, adverb, verb, <B>-panned,</B> <B>-panning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> an expressionless face, person, or manner. <DD><I>adj. </I> showing no expression or feeling. <BR> <I>Ex. a deadpan comedian, deadpan language, a deadpan news story.</I> (SYN) expressionless, poker-faced. <DD><I>adv. </I> in a deadpan manner. <BR> <I>Ex. The lines were read deadpan. The official Yugoslav newspaper, Borba, reprinted--deadpan--a Pravda article (Newsweek).</I> <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to act or perform in a deadpan manner. <BR> <I>Ex. to deadpan a joke, to deadpan through a party.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadpoint">
<B>dead point,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=dead center </B>(def. 1). <DD><B> 2. </B>any point of no mechanical action. </DL>
<A NAME="deadreckoner">
<B>dead reckoner,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for dead reckoning. <BR> <I>Ex. an automatic dead reckoner that continuously plots a ship's position.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadreckoning">
<B>dead reckoning,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the calculation of the position of a ship or aircraft without observations of the sun, stars, or other heavenly bodies, by using a compass and studying the record of the navigator. <BR> <I>Ex. Dead reckoning, although it serves to indicate roughly the location of boat or aircraft, does not do so accurately (Bernhard, Bennett, and Rice).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the location determined in this manner. <DD><B> 3. </B>the calculation of one's location by natural landmarks. <BR> <I>Ex. Daniel Boone made his way back to the settlement by dead reckoning.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadringer">
<B>dead ringer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a person or thing exactly like someone or something else. <BR> <I>Ex. The synthetic article is a dead ringer for the imported glass (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadseascrolls">
<B>Dead Sea Scrolls,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a collection of ancient papyrus and leather scrolls discovered in several caves in the Qumran Valley near the Dead Sea. They contain the oldest known copies of most of the books of the Bible. Many scrolls have been added since the first ones were found in 1947, most written in Hebrew and Aramaic about 2,000 years ago. They contain comments and explanations on Biblical writing and the monastic rules of the Qumran Community. </DL>
<A NAME="deadset">
<B>dead-set, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> firmly fixed; very determined or resolute. <BR> <I>Ex. ... dead-set against any compromise (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadset">
<B>dead set,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an abrupt stop or stand made by a hunting dog in pointing game. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>a determined stand. <BR> <I>Ex. The disaffected sections of the Irish population made a dead set against him from the first (Manchester Evening News).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a determined attempt to gain someone's affections. <BR> <I>Ex. There was a girl at Dumdum ... who made a dead set at me (Thackeray).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadsoldier">
<B>dead soldier,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an empty wine or whiskey bottle. <DD><B> 2. </B>an empty beer can or bottle. </DL>
<A NAME="deadspace">
<B>dead space,</B> =dead angle.</DL>
<A NAME="deadsticklanding">
<B>dead-stick landing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a landing of an aircraft with theengine off. <BR> <I>Ex. Gravity slows him and beckons him back to earth and a dead-stick landing (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadstorage">
<B>dead storage,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the storage of property in a warehouse for a long period of time. </DL>
<A NAME="deadstroke">
<B>dead stroke,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a stroke in power hammers in which the hammer is not instantly withdrawn after striking and the blow is inelastic in effect. </DL>
<A NAME="deadwater">
<B>dead water,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Nautical.) the water that eddies about the stern of a ship as it moves along. </DL>
<A NAME="deadweight">
<B>dead weight,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the weight of anything lifeless, rigid, and unyielding. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a very great or oppressive burden. <BR> <I>Ex. It will take some time before the spiritual dead weight of 10 years of occupation is finally thrown off (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the weight of a railroad car or other vehicle without cargo or load. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=dead load.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="deadweightton">
<B>dead weight ton,</B> or <B>deadweight ton</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a long ton (2,240 pounds) used in calculating dead weight tonnage. </DL>
<A NAME="deadweighttonnage">
<B>dead weight tonnage,</B> or <B>deadweight tonnage,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the capacity in long tons of the cargo, crew, passengers, fuel, supplies, and spare parts of a merchant ship. <BR> <I>Ex. Dead weight tonnage in cargo ships almost always exceeds gross tonnage (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deadwood">
<B>deadwood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>dead branches or trees. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) useless people or things. <BR> <I>Ex. The new manager got rid of the deadwood by firing half of the staff.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a conventional word or phrase that adds nothing to the meaning of a sentence. <DD><B> 4. </B>the solid timber structure set near the keel of a wooden ship at the bow or stern. <DD><B> 5. </B>a pin or pins knocked down in bowling and lying in the alley or gutters. </DL>
<A NAME="deaematres">
<B>Deae Matres,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the three Teutonic goddesses of plenty. </DL>
<A NAME="deaerate">
<B>deaerate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to remove gas, especially in the form of bubbles, from. <BR> <I>Ex. to deaerate water.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deaeration">
<B>deaeration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a deaerating. </DL>
<A NAME="deaerator">
<B>deaerator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus for removing the gas, especially in the form of bubbles, from a liquid or, sometimes, a compartment. <BR> <I>Ex. Conventional types of deaerators are not suitable where cold deaerated water is required for process purposes (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deaestheticization">
<B>de-aestheticization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the removal of aesthetic qualities from art. <BR> <I>Ex. The movement toward de-aestheticization is both a reaction against and a continuation of the trend toward formalistic overrefinement in the art of the sixties (Harold Rosenberg).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="deaestheticize">
<B>de-aestheticize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cized,</B> <B>-cizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to rid (art or a work of art) of aesthetic qualities. </DL>
<A NAME="deaexmachina">
<B>dea ex machina,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a female deus ex machina. <BR> <I>Ex. But lo! in the wings is a dea ex machina, a glittering fairy godmother to bring the happy ending (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) a goddess from a machine. </DL>
