Definition of "dead" in İngilizce

adjective

(usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- All of my grandparents are dead.
- Have respect for the dead.
- The villagers are mourning their dead.
- The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
- Lily was pronounced dead at the scene.
- A storekeeper downtown was shot dead last evening.
- raise the dead
- wake the dead
(usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- a dead planet
(hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
(of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- He is dead to me.
(literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
Without emotion; impassive.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- the dead load on the floor
- a dead lift
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- dead air
- a dead glass of soda.
Unproductive; fallow.
- dead time
- dead fields
Past, bygone, vanished.
(of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant.
(not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.
- Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
(of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
(not comparable) No longer used or required.
- There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
- Is this beer glass dead?
(engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.

the dead spindle of a lathe
A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.

(not comparable, sports) Not in play.

Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.

(not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.

(not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.

(not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).

dead stop
dead sleep
dead giveaway
dead silence

(not comparable) Exact; on the dot.

dead center
dead aim
a dead eye
a dead level

Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.

(text messaging or Internet slang, sometimes as a standalone word, often with 💀) Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:

(acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.

a dead floor

(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.

(law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.

A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.

(rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).

(linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.

adverb

(degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
- dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
(degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
- dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
Suddenly and completely.
- He stopped dead.
- She cut me dead again at the last party.
(informal) As if dead.
- dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still

noun

(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- Near-synonym: nadir
- the dead of night
- the dead of winter
(with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
- the quick and the dead
- Will the dead rise again?
- He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

noun

(UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
(bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.

verb

(transitive) To prevent by disabling; to stop.
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth. “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
(transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
(transitive, UK, US, slang) To kill.
(transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, by extension) To discontinue or put an end to (something).