dead-man's float
prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
| dead reckoning | navigation without the aid of celestial observations |
| Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
blind alley
cul de sac
dead-end street
impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
cul
cul de sac dead end | a passage with access only at one end |
| dead-air space | an unventilated area where no air circulates |
| dead axle | an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it |
| dead load | a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself |
morgue
mortuary
dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
| dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
dead center
dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
dead hand
dead hand of the past
mortmain | the oppressive influence of past events or decisions |
| body dead body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person, they found the body in the lake |
guess
guesswork
guessing
shot
dead reckoning | an estimate based on little or no information |
| dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
region
realm | a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about, it was a limited realm of discourse, here we enter the region of opinion, the realm of the occult |
| dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
| Dead Sea scrolls | (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late s, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus |
dead letter
dead mail | mail that can neither be delivered nor returned |
funeral march
dead march | a slow march to be played for funeral processions |
dead metaphor
frozen metaphor | a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake') |
| dead heat | a tie in a race |
| dead | people who are no longer living, they buried the dead |
estate of the realm
estate
the three estates | a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights |
kingdom
realm | the domain ruled by a king or queen |
| dead drop | a drop used for the clandestine exchange of intelligence information, a dead drop avoids the need for an intelligence officer and a spy to be present at the same time |
| Dead Sea | a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan, its surface in feet below sea level |
dead person
dead soul
deceased person
deceased
decedent
departed | someone who is no longer alive, I wonder what the dead person would have done |
| peer of the realm | a peer who is entitled to sit in the House of Lords |
ringer dead ringer
clone | a person who is almost identical to another |
zombi
zombie
living dead | a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force |
richweed clearweed
dead nettle Pilea pumilla | a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves |
hemp nettle
dead nettle Galeopsis tetrahit | coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle, common as a weed in United States |
| dead nettle | any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips |
white dead nettle
Lamium album | European dead nettle with white flowers |
| hedge nettle dead nettle Stachys sylvatica | foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome |
dead-man's-fingers
dead-men's-fingers
Xylaria polymorpha | the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria |
mortmain
dead hand | real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) |
dead letter
non-issue | the state of something that has outlived its relevance |
deadlock
dead end
impasse
stalemate standstill | a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible, reached an impasse on the negotiations |
| dead duck | something doomed to failure, he finally admitted that the legislation was a dead duck, the idea of another TV channel is now a dead duck, as theories go, that's a dead duck |
kingdom
land
realm | a domain in which something is dominant, the untroubled kingdom of reason, a land of make-believe, the rise of the realm of cotton in the south |
| dead | a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense, the dead of winter |
| dead air | an inadvertent interruption in a broadcast during which there is no sound |
die
decease
perish
go
exit
pass away
expire
pass b kick the bucket
cash in one's chips
buy the farm
conk
give-up the ghost
drop dead
pop off
choke croak
snuff it | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life, She died from cancer, The children perished in the fire, The patient went peacefully, The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of |
freeze
stop dead | stop moving or become immobilized, When he saw the police car he froze |
| dead-on(a) | accurate and to the point, a dead-on feel for characterization, She avoids big scenes...preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue- Peter S.Prescott |
true
dead on target | accurately placed or thrown, his aim was true, he was dead on target |
| dead | devoid of activity, this is a dead town, nothing ever happens here |
| dead-end | lacking opportunities for development or advancement, stuck in a dead-end job |