(a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
(a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
(a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
(a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
(a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
(a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
(a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
(a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
(a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
(a.) Bringing death; deadly.
(a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
(a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
(a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
(a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
(a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
(adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
(n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
(n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
(v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
(v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of dead from the bombing has been put at up to 1,654.
(2) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
(3) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(4) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(5) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(6) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
(7) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(8) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(9) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(10) No names of the dead or injured have been published.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
(13) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(14) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
(15) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(16) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(17) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(18) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
(19) necrobiotic and dead cells, cell debris and phagosomes appear electively fluorescent.
(20) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
Osiris
Definition:
(n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(2) At the time of the blast, Nasa’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft was just a mile away, awaiting its own launch to chase an asteroid.
(3) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.
(4) Results show that OSIRIS can be calibrated against the MRE 113A for a given dust and that the calibration is maintained over the normal working range of 0-40 mg m-3.
(5) To achieve this goal, it was elected to develop a modular and portable software called OSIRIS.
(6) Once calibrated, OSIRIS would be useful in monitoring respirable dust concentrations in a wide range of industrial or laboratory situations.
(7) • Osiris Guzman (Dominican Republic) banned for 30 days, 15 days suspended for six months, fined SFr300.
(8) Its precision was investigated by studying the errors associated with patient repositioning in the apparatus using the computer controlled image scanner OSIRIS.
(9) I hope to use our friendship and excellent collaboration to ameliorate good governance.” 16) Staying humble May 2015: Feeling awkward after the Dominican Republic FA’s head Osiris Guzman (back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal) compares him to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela , Sepp provides some balance.
(10) Yet its hero is a far cry from Jesus, or Osiris, or even Superman – it's the Jade Rabbit, China's lunar rover, which has become a national obsession in recent weeks, inspiring an intense surge of interest and national pride.
(11) Latifa al-Zayyat: al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960) Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo trilogy (1956-57) Colette Khoury: Ayyam Ma'ah (1959) Enayat el-Zayyat: Al-Hubb w'al-Samt (1967) Layla al-Juhani: Jahiliyya (2006) You could argue that the first narrative to emerge from what has come to be called the Middle East was the first love story of all time: the story of Isis and Osiris.
(12) OSIRIS therefore needs to be calibrated against a gravimetric sampler for each dust which it will be used to monitor.
(13) I wish Concacaf unity, and solidarity.” • Among the feedback: Dominican Republic FA head Osiris Guzman , back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal , comparing Sepp to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela ; Turks and Caicos FA vice-president Olive Smith calling for delegates to vote for Sepp “ en bloc, to continue this mutually beneficial journey ”; and Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb summing up: “Concacaf is – more than ever – united by one vision.” • Also at the event: Concacaf’s executive elections, with Webb and vice-president Captain Horace Burrell re-elected unopposed.
(14) The OSIRIS trial suggests that early administration of surfactant to an estimated 32 babies, when compared with treatment of established RDS, would prevent 1 baby from dying and another from being dependent on extra oxygen long-term, but would entail the additional use of surfactant in 8 of these babies.
(15) It was the Trinidad & Tobago FA president, Raymond Tim Kee, who praised Blatter as the “father of football”, while the president of the Dominican Republic federation, Osiris Guzman, compared the 79-year-old Swiss to Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King as well as Jesus and Mandela.
(16) This annual miracle was ascribed to the tears of the goddess Isis mourning her murdered husband Osiris, and its effect was a safe prediction of what lay in store for the people of the valley: midscale meant a plentiful harvest, too much water spelled out death by flood, too little warned of famine and starvation.
(17) A short screening interview for the diagnosis of alcoholism has been developed with the assistance of the automatic interaction detector (AID) program (a multivariate sequential analysis strategy) that is part of the OSIRIS statistical package.
(18) If there are SpaceX mission delays, other cargo spacecraft will be able to meet the station’s needs, and supplies and research investigations are at good levels.” The Nasa statement said the rocket and spacecraft for its next scheduled launch with SpaceX, Osiris-Rex , were “healthy and secure” at a launch site a mile away from the site of the explosion.
(19) Eight premature infants ventilated for hyaline membrane disease and enrolled in the OSIRIS surfactant trial were studied.
(20) Isis, the mother of mankind, does not just mourn the slaying and dismembering of her husband Osiris by his evil brother, Seth; she embarks on a journey to find his 14 body parts, scattered throughout the land of Egypt.