dead-man's float
prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
written assignment
writing assignment | an assignment to write something |
| 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 |
| dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
written communication
written language
black and white | communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten) |
transcription
written text | something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation |
| written word | the written form of a word, while the spoken word stands for something, the written word stands for something that stands for something, a craftsman of the written word |
writing
written material
piece of writing | the work of a writer, anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect), the writing in her novels is excellent, that editorial was a fine piece of writing |
| copy written matter | matter to be printed, exclusive of graphical materials |
| 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 |
document
written document
papers | writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) |
written record
written account | a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events |
dead letter
dead mail | mail that can neither be delivered nor returned |
| written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties |
written symbol
printed symbol | a written or printed symbol |
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') |
report study
written report | a written document describing the findings of some individual or group, this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale |
| dead heat | a tie in a race |
| dead | people who are no longer living, they buried the dead |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |