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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dead stick | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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"DEAD STICK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deadstick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 41 44      53 54 49 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E A D   S T I C K |
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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