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DEAD STICK

Specialty Definition: DEAD STICK

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Slang

Phrase. Source: Dead - (adjective) deprived of life; Stick (noun) lever controlling the moveable surfaces of the aircraft. Definition: To try to land with all engine(s) shut down. Context: Might be used by a pilot in emergency communication with the tower. Social Source: Military Aviators. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DEAD STICK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dead stick

19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: DEAD STICK

Misspellings

"DEAD STICK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deadstick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DEAD STICK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-i-k-s-t"

-2 letters: addicts, caddies, cakiest, deticks, didacts, stacked, sticked.

-3 letters: addict, caddie, caddis, cadets, casked, casket, detick, dicast, didact, disced, disked, edicts, sacked, sicked, skated, skited, staked, tacked, tasked, ticked.

-4 letters: acids, acted, adits, aided, aides, asdic, aside, asked, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, caked, cakes, cased, caste, cates, cedis, cesta, cesti, cited, cites, daces, dated.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-i-k-s-t"
 

+2 letters: sidetracked.

 

+3 letters: stickhandled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DEAD STICK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 45 41 44      53 54 49 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0041 0044      0053 0054 0049 0043 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3839353825354433745

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