dead

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IPA（発音記号）

/dɛd/

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not alive

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The old tree in the backyard stood dead after last summer's drought.

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意味（1）

(usually not comparable) No longer living. (Also used as a noun.)

Timothy Leary's dead. / No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.

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意味（2）

(usually not comparable) Devoid of life.

Behold the substance from which all things draw their energy, the bright Spirit of the Globe, without which it cannot live, but must grow cold and dead as the dead moon.

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意味（3）

(hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.

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意味（4）

(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.

He is dead to me.

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意味（5）

Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).

You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!

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意味（6）

Without emotion.

She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.

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意味（7）

Stationary; static.

the dead load on the floor

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意味（8）

Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.

dead air

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意味（9）

Unproductive.

dead time

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意味（10）

(not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.

OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.

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意味（11）

(of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.

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(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.

That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.

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意味（13）

(not comparable) No longer used or required.

There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.

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(engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.

the dead spindle of a lathe

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意味（15）

(not comparable, sports) Not in play.

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

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意味（16）

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

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

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(not comparable) Full and complete.

dead stop

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意味（19）

(not comparable) Exact.

dead center

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意味（20）

Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

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

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意味（21）

Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.

a dead floor

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意味（22）

(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.

You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear

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意味（23）

(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.

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意味（24）

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

He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.

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deader （ comparative ）

deadest （ superlative ）