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 |
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 |
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 |
drunk | someone who is intoxicated |
drunk-and-disorderly | someone arrested on the charge of being drunk and disorderly, they delivered the drunk-and-disorderlies to the county jail |
drunkard drunk rummy sot inebriate wino | a chronic drinker |
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 |
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 |
dead | physically inactive, Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range |
dead | no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life, the nerve is dead, a dead pallor, he was marked as a dead man by the assassin |