(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.
Withed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Withe
Example Sentences:
(1) The ridges interlink with definitive rows of particles associated withe PF fracture face of the innter leaflet of the plasma membrane.
(2) T-cell antigens were detectable in all specimens positive for rosette formation withe untreated erythrocytes, in four of the six specimens positive for rosette formation with AET-treated erythrocytes, and in four specimens that showed no rosette formation under any of the experimental conditions used.
(3) In stationary CEF cells arrested in the G1 phase of the cell replication cycle by serum deprivation and infected withe CELO virs, no cytopathic effect could be observed, and only very low amounts of virus were produced.
(4) Partners include Adidas, Nike, Withings, Intel, Asus, RunKeeper, LG, Basis, Runtastic and Polar.
(5) The Barber Suggestibility Scale, as a measure of hypnotic susceptibility, was administered to 130 British undergraduate students by 13 student experimenters in a 2 x 2 factorial design withe sex of the subject and the sex of the experimenter as the two variables.
(6) Medical treatment is potentially more important than surgical treatment for the large majority of patients presenting withe breast cancer.
(7) Although these bacteria rarely occur in clinical specimens, the clinical microbiologist should be familiar withe their outstanding characteristics.
(8) Apple announced partners for its HomeKit – the developer platform underlying the Home app – including Texas Instruments, Philips, Haier, Netamo, Withings, Honeywell, Marvel, Osram and Broadcom.
(9) Withing’s new Aura promises to wake you up with “scientifically validated” coloured light when you’re ready in the morning.
(10) These results suggest that an extensor spasticity withe flexor weakness, which is common in capsular hemiplegia, may be due to an imbalance of reflex activities via Ia muscle afferents, and that a part of flexor weakness can be restored by "disinhibition' by reduction of Ia inflow from extensor muscles.
(11) One of the major metabolites is 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen which we have identified by cocrystallisation withe non radioactive compound and which is known to display a high affinity for the estrogen receptor.
(12) Interaction of copper(II) with guanosine, 2'-deoxyguanosine, 1-methylguanosine, 7-methylguanosine and GMP was studied withe use of spectroscopic and magneto-chemical methods.
(13) Although a total response rate of 96 percent was achieved after six months, the results showed that cigarette smoker response rates were considerably lower than the other smoker categories withing 30 days and within 60 days of the original mailing date.
(14) 52 patients with benign monoclonal gammopathy were HLA typed and compared withe 48 patients with malignant monoclonal gammopathy.
(15) By the use of complexes of HSA-anti-HSA in ten times antigen excess, the time for localization of HSA withing germinal centres was accelerated as compared with soluble HSA, so that newly formed centres containing antigen-bearing dendritic ells were seen at 48 hours instead of 72 hours after use of soluble HSA.
(16) In Chinese hamster cells immediately after medium changing in stationary cultures there is an augmentation of PSH content in parallel withe the increase in RNA synthesis rate.
(17) All tumors activated sulfate to adenosine-3'-phospho-5'-phosphosulfate and the concentrations were significantly correlated withe the recorded levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate.
(18) Neither the total dose of radiation nor the dose per week correlated withe the severity of reaction or death.
(19) In contrast, progression was very rapid in two of 300 other patients with the disease, leading to fatal thyrotoxic crisis withing three months in one.
(20) This effect was greater withe native than with partially reduced SC.