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DEAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are no longer living
Example:
they buried the dead
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("dead" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Meronyms (members of "dead"):
dead person; dead soul; deceased; deceased person; decedent; departed (someone who is no longer alive)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dead"):
slain (people who have been slain (as in battle))
Antonym:
living (people who are still living)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
Example:
the dead of winter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("dead" is a kind of...):
time (an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Devoid of activity
Example:
this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here
Classified under:
Similar:
inactive (lacking activity; lying idle or unused)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Physically inactive
Example:
Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
Classified under:
Similar:
extinct ((of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive)
Derivation:
deadness (the inanimate property of something that has died)
Sense 3
Meaning:
No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
Example:
he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
stone-dead (as lifeless as a stone)
stillborn ((of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn)
slain (killed; 'slain' is formal or literary as in)
nonviable (not capable of living or developing successfully)
murdered (killed unlawfully)
exanimate; lifeless (deprived of life; no longer living)
late (having died recently)
fallen (killed in battle)
executed (put to death as punishment)
doomed (marked for certain death)
defunct (having ceased to exist or live)
deathlike; deathly (having the physical appearance of death)
d.o.a. (abbreviation for 'dead on arrival' at the emergency room)
cold (lacking the warmth of life)
breathless; inanimate; pulseless (appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse)
brain dead (having irreversible loss of brain function as indicated by a persistent flat electroencephalogram)
bloodless; exsanguine; exsanguinous (destitute of blood or apparently so)
assassinated (murdered by surprise attack for political reasons)
asleep; at peace; at rest; deceased; departed; gone (dead)
Attribute:
aliveness; animation; life; living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)
animation; vitality (the property of being able to survive and grow)
Antonym:
alive (possessing life)
Derivation:
deadness (the inanimate property of something that has died)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
Example:
the fire is dead
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
out of play ((of a ball) not available to be played during a game)
lifeless (not having the capacity to support life)
extinct; out (being out or having grown cold)
Also:
extinct ((of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive)
Antonym:
live (exerting force or containing energy)
Derivation:
deadness (the inanimate property of something that has died)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Drained of electric charge; discharged
Example:
left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
Synonyms:
dead; drained
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
uncharged (of a particle or body or system; having no charge)
Derivation:
deadness (the inanimate property of something that has died)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The complete stoppage of an action
Example:
came to a dead stop
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
Sense 7
Meaning:
No longer having force or relevance
Example:
a dead issue
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
Example:
the motor is dead
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
inoperative (not working or taking effect)
Derivation:
deadness (the inanimate property of something that has died)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Lacking resilience or bounce
Example:
a dead tennis ball
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
inelastic (not elastic)
Derivation:
deadness (the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Not surviving in active use
Example:
Latin is a dead language
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
extinct; nonextant (no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives)
Derivation:
deadness (the inanimate property of something that has died)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Not circulating or flowing
Example:
stagnant water
Synonyms:
dead; stagnant
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
standing ((of fluids) not moving or flowing)
Derivation:
deadness (the inanimate property of something that has died)
Sense 12
Meaning:
Unerringly accurate
Example:
took dead aim
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
precise (sharply exact or accurate or delimited)
Sense 13
Meaning:
Not yielding a return
Example:
idle funds
Synonyms:
dead; idle
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unprofitable (producing little or no profit or gain)
Sense 14
Meaning:
Lacking acoustic resonance
Example:
the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
nonresonant; unreverberant (not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate)
Sense 15
Meaning:
Devoid of physical sensation; numb
Example:
a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities
Synonyms:
dead; deadened
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
insensitive (not responsive to physical stimuli)
Derivation:
deadness (the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events)
Sense 16
Meaning:
(followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
Example:
numb to the cries for mercy
Synonyms:
dead; numb
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
insensitive (deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive)
Derivation:
deadness (the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events)
Sense 17
Meaning:
Very tired
Example:
I'm dead after that long trip
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
Example:
dead right
Synonyms:
absolutely; dead; perfectly; utterly
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
Quickly and without warning
Example:
he stopped suddenly
Synonyms:
abruptly; dead; short; suddenly
Classified under:
Context examples:
I was dead tired, as you may fancy; and when I got to sleep, which was not till after a great deal of tossing, I slept like a log of wood.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“I am quite done with that person; and I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Above, the bodies of the dead and the dying—French, Spanish, and Aragonese—lay thick and thicker, until they covered the whole ground two and three deep in one dreadful tangle of slaughter.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the Tuesday morning Captain Barrington was found dead beside his bed with his throat cut.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dead end protein homolog 1 (353 aa, ~39 kDa) is encoded by the human DND1 gene.
(Dead End Protein Homolog 1, NCI Thesaurus)
The absence of life or state of being dead.
(Death, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Although Bright, dead ringer, and MRF-2 preferentially bind to AT-rich sites, DNA binding of ARID-proteins is not necessarily sequence specific; ARID protein p270 of the SWI-SNF complex exhibits non-specific DNA binding activity.
(ARID Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
Pus is a mixture of living and dead white blood cells, germs, and dead tissue.
(Abscess, NIH)
By joining this natural lens with the resolving power of Hubble, scientists were able to see into the center of the dead galaxy.
(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A procedure to remove dead tissue or foreign material from a wound to expose underlying healthy tissue and to promote healing.
(Debridement, NCI Thesaurus)
