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Moffit Cancer Center, University of South Florida (health)

Moffit Cancer Center, University of South Florida is a hospital in Tampa, Florida (USA).

dead(1) (iou)

dead adjective & adverb.
[Old English dead = Old Frisian dad, Old French dod (Dutch dood), Old High German tot (German tot), Old Norse dauer, Gothic dauTs, from Germanic, from pa. pple of ult. base of DIE verb1.]
A. adjective.
I.
That has ceased to live; deprived of life. OE.
Defoe He was shot dead. S. Johnson Macbean..is dead of a suppression of urine. Day Lewis A semi-circle of drive..littered with dead leaves.
Having lost sensation or vitality; benumbed, insensible. Also hyperbol., exhausted, drained of strength, worn out. ME.
Oxford English Dictionary She fell on the floor in a dead faint. A. Higgins My feet have gone dead on me.
Foll. by to: completely insensible or unresponsive to; unappreciative of; hardened against. Also, as good as dead in a particular respect or capacity; spec. legally cut off from all civil rights. ME.
N. Bacon He that is in a monastery is dead to all worldly affairs. Shelley Sensual, and vile; Dead to all love. Washington Post Rome..dismissed as culturally dead.
Devoid of living organisms; barren, infertile. ME.
Henry Miller The arid surface of dead planets.
Destitute of spiritual life or energy. LME.
W. Cowper He lives, who lives to God alone, And all are dead beside.
Not endowed with life; inanimate; inert. LME.
Addison There are some living creatures which are raised but just above dead matter.
Causing death; deadly, mortal. LME-E17.
Shakespeare Winter's Tale Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee From the dead blow of it.
[Partly attrib. use of DEAD noun1.] Of, pertaining or relating to a dead person, animal, etc., or a death. Also, (of a hedge or fence) made of dead plants etc. L15.
W. Combe What the medical people call a dead case..a consultation..to discover the disorder of which their patient died.
No longer in use or existence; obsolete; past; esp. (of a language etc.) no longer spoken. L16.
Tennyson My doubts are dead. J. Irving Old East Norse is a dead language.
II.
Without vigour or animation, lifeless. OE.
L. Hutchinson A bare dead description. R. W. Emerson Active intellect and dead conservatism.
b. Of a racehorse: not intended to win, fraudulently run to prevent its winning. slang. M19.
Without motion, unmoving; still, standing; (of a mechanical part) not designed to move independently. OE.
I. Walton From the dead, still water, into the sharp streames and the gravel. O. G. Gregory The dead pulley is fixed to the axis and turns with it.
Without active force or practical effect; ineffectual, inoperative. ME.
J. H. Newman So earnest for a dead ordinance.
Without commercial, social, or intellectual activity; marked by inactivity, dull; (of capital, stock, etc.) lying unutilized, unprofitable, unsaleable. ME.
Robert Knox And now caps were become a very dead commodity. J. A. Froude It was the dead season; but there were a few persons still in London.
Deprived of or wanting a vital or characteristic quality; extinguished, extinct; spent, burnt-out; flat, dull, lustreless. ME.
Evelyn It will not ferment..and then the Cider will be dead, flat, and soure. Dryden The dead colour of her face. Hartley Coleridge The crackling embers on the hearth are dead.
b. Of an electric circuit, conductor, etc.: not carrying or transmitting a current; not connected. Of a microphone, telephone, etc.: not transmitting sounds. E20.
I. Murdoch There was a big electric torch, but the battery was dead.
Of sound: muffled, without resonance, dull. Of a room etc.: allowing minimal acoustic reverberation. LME.
Characterized by absence of physical motion or sound; profoundly quiet or still. Of ground etc.: lacking resilience or springiness; Military slang naturally sheltered from a line of fire. Of a house (slang): uninhabited. M16.
Shakespeare Measure for Measure 'Tis now dead midnight.
Characterized by complete and abrupt cessation of motion, action, or speech. M17.
Dickens The answer spoilt his joke, and brought him to a dead stop.
Games. Of the ball: not in play, (temporarily) inactive. Also (Golf), so close to a hole that the putt is deemed to be unmissable. M17.
B. Johnston A ball does not become dead when it strikes an umpire.
Architecture. Lacking its ostensible purpose; false, blind; inoperative. E19.
R. Forsyth A..bridge..the dead arches of which have been fitted up as a town-hall.
III.
Unrelieved, unbroken; profound, deep; (of the state of the tide) lowest; (of pull, strain, etc.) applied to its utmost against an unmoving body. M16.
D. Livingstone I crossed it at dead low-water. Tennyson We heard In the dead hush the papers..Rustle. J. R. Lowell To reduce all mankind to a dead level of mediocrity.
Absolute, complete, entire, thorough, downright; unerring, certain, sure; exact. L16.
R. Sharrock Till the seed..be come to a full and dead ripenesse. Sir W. Scott This is a dead secret. Thackeray He is a dead hand at piquet.
Of an expense etc.: unrelieved, complete, utter. Of an outlay: unproductive, without returns. E18.
W. Cobbett Those colonies are a dead expense to us.
Phrases: dead and gone, dead and buried rhet. in one's grave, deceased; fig. past, over. dead as a doornail quite dead. dead as mutton quite dead. dead as a dodo, dead as the dodo extinct, entirely obsolete. dead from the neck up colloq. brainless, stupid, doltish. dead to the wide slang (a) = dead to the world below; (b) totally exhausted. dead to the world unconscious, fast asleep. lay dead: see LAY verb1. the dead ring (of): see RING noun2. top dead centre: see TOP adjective. wouldn't be seen dead in, wouldn't be seen dead with colloq. shall have nothing to do with, refuse to wear etc.
Special collocations & comb.: dead-alive, dead-and-alive alive without animation, dull, spiritless, monotonous. dead-ball line Rugby Football a line behind the goal-line beyond which the ball is considered out of play. dead bat Cricket a bat held loosely so that the ball strikes it and immediately falls to the ground. dead body: see BODY noun. dead cat bounce Stock Exchange a temporary recovery in share prices after a substantial fall, caused by speculators buying in order to cover their positions. dead-born adjective (chiefly dial.) born dead. dead centre (a) the exact centre; (b) = dead point below; (c) in a lathe, the centre which does not revolve. dead cert: see CERT noun. dead colour the first or preparatory layer of colour in a painting. dead-colour verb trans. paint in dead colour. dead-doing adjective killing, murderous. dead duck: see DUCK noun1. deadeye Nautical a round flat three-holed block for extending shrouds. deadfall (chiefly N. Amer.) (a) a trap with a falling weight to kill an animal, a snare (lit. & fig.); (b) a tangled mass of fallen trees etc.; (c) a disreputable drinking or gambling place. dead-fire a corposant, taken as a presage of death. dead giveaway: see GIVEAWAY noun 2. dead hand (a) [translation] = MORTMAIN; (b) posthumous control, esp. an undesirable persisting posthumous influence. dead-hearted adjective callous, insensible. dead heat a race in which two or more competitors finish exactly level. dead-heat verb intrans. run a dead heat (with another competitor). dead horse fig. something no longer of use, something it is pointless to attempt to revive, (flog a dead horse, waste energy on something unalterable). dead house arch. colloq. a mortuary. dead leg an injury caused by a numbing blow with the knee to a person's upper leg. dead letter (a) a Writing etc. taken literally without Reference to its spirit or intention, and so useless or ineffective; (b) a law no longer observed, a disused practice; (c) an unclaimed or undelivered letter. dead letter box a place where (esp. secret) messages can be left and collected without the sender and recipient meeting. dead lift (a) a lift made without mechanical assistance or Other advantage; an exertion of the utmost strength to lift or move something (esp. beyond one's strength); (b) (now arch. & dial.) an extremity, a hopeless case (chiefly in at a dead lift). deadlight (a) Nautical a strong shutter fixed inside or outside a porthole etc. to keep out water in a storm; (b) Scot. = corpse-candle (a) s.v. CORPSE noun. deadline (a) a line, constituting a piece of tackle etc., that does not move or run; (b) a line beyond which it is not permitted or possible to go; (c) a time-limit, esp. the time by which an article etc. scheduled for publication must be completed. dead load a load of constant and invariable weight. dead loss (a) a complete and unrelieved (financial) loss; (b) colloq. a useless or contemptible person or thing. dead march a slow solemn march for a funeral etc., a funeral march. dead-melt verb trans. keep (a metal) at a melting temperature until it is perfectly fluid and no more gas is evolved. dead-nettle any of various labiate plants of the genus Lamium and allied genera, with leaves like those of stinging nettles but without stinging hairs; esp. (a) (more fully red dead-nettle) L. purpureum, a European weed with pinkish-purple flowers; (b) (more fully white dead-nettle) L. album, a Eurasian hedge plant with large white flowers; (c) yellow dead-nettle = yellow archangel s.v. ARCHANGEL 2. dead palsy: producing complete insensibility or immobility of the affected part. dead pay [cf. French morte-paye] (a) (a soldier etc. receiving) pay continued after active service has ceased; (b) Hist. a soldier etc. actually dead or discharged but for whom nevertheless pay is claimed; pay drawn in this way. dead point the position of a crank in direct line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque. dead reckoning estimation of the position of a ship, aeroplane, etc., by log, compass, etc., when observations are impossible. deadrise Nautical the vertical distance between a line horizontal to the keel of a boat and its chine. dead set: see SET noun1 4, 5. dead shot an unerring marksman. dead soldier: see SOLDIER noun. dead-stick landing: of an aircraft with the engine(s) stopped. dead stock, deadstock (a) (as two words) commercially inactive or unproductive stock, capital, etc.; (b) (as one word) farm machinery etc. (as opp. livestock). dead time Physics the period after the recording of a pulse etc. when a detector is unable to record another. dead-tongue (chiefly dial.) a poisonous umbellifer, hemlock water dropwort, Oenanthe crocata. dead water (a) the neap tide; (b) water without any current, still water; (c) Nautical the eddy water just behind the stern of a ship under way. dead weight (a) a heavy unrelieved weight or burden; an inert mass; (b) the weight of cargo, fuel, crew, and passengers carried by a ship etc.; (c) fig. a Debt not covered by assets; (d) the weight of an animal after it has been slaughtered and prepared as a carcass. dead well: sunk to a porous stratum to carry off surface or refuse water. dead white (a) flat or lustreless white; (b) pure white. dead white European male, dead white male colloq. a writer, philosopher, etc., whose importance and talents may have been exaggerated by virtue of his belonging to a historically dominant gender and ethnic group (abbreviation DWEM, DWM). dead wood (a) wood no longer alive; fig. a person or persons, a thing or things, regarded as useless or unprofitable; (b) Nautical solid blocks of timber fastened just above the keel at each end of a ship, to strengthen her structure. dead work (a) unproductive work (in mining etc.); (b) = upper works (a) s.v. UPPER adjective.
b. adverb.
To a degree suggesting death; with extreme inactivity, stillness, etc.; profoundly; to extremity. LME.
dead drunk so drunk as to be insensible or immobile.
J. Carlyle Whether I fainted, or suddenly fell dead-asleep.
Utterly, entirely, absolutely, quite, exactly. Now colloq. L16.
dead broke, dead certain, dead right, dead sure, etc. dead on exactly right. dead to rights: see RIGHT noun1.
W. F. Hook One horse..which soon became dead lame. R. Cobb The train came in dead on time. Sloan Wilson You're just like the othersdead ordinary.
Directly, straight. E19.
dead against directly opposed or opposite to (lit. & fig.).
J. Conrad It loomed up dead to leeward.
With an abrupt cessation of motion or action. M19.
E. Pound Don't make each line stop dead at the end.
? The compar. deader and superl. deadest are in use where the sense permits.
deadish adjective (now rare) LME.
deadness noun L16.

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