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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Stagnant air b. The air of a mine when it contains carbonic acid gas (blackdamp), orwhen ventilation is sluggish. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Unknown. Definition: There is no audio transmitting out onto the air-waves and something is wrong. Context: Used by everyone who knows the radio world. Social Source: KRVM Radio Station Employees. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It revolves around the life of Ken Nott, a radio DJ on a London station called Capital Live!. The first person narrative begins on September 11, 2001, and Banks uses the protagonist's conversations -- both on the radio and off -- to discuss the political consequences of the terrorist attacks in the US on that day. The cover of the novel also conjures images of that attack; it shows an old picture of two of the towers of London's Battersea Power Station with an aeroplane above them.
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Dead air is a radio transmission which normally carries audio or video, but is instead silent or blank. This is most often applied to broadcasting, when program material (typically music) unintentionally stops, and an alarm sounds after several seconds to alert the operator.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dead Air."
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've been sending up and down the coast from Sarasota to the Everglades and still getting back the same dead air. There's nothing! (Day of the Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dead Air (2002) | |
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| 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 air | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "DEAD AIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | romlott levegő, légpangás, elhasznált levegő (bad air). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eadday airay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-i-r" | |
-1 letter: raided. | |
-2 letters: adder, aided, aider, aired, dared, deair, dread, dried, irade, readd, redia, redid. | |
-3 letters: aide, area, aria, arid, dada, dare, dead, dear, died, dire, idea, ired, raia, raid, read, redd, ride. | |
-4 letters: add, aid, air, are, dad, did, die, ear, era, ire, rad, red, rei, ria, rid. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, ai, ar, de. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-i-r" | |
+1 letter: radiated. | |
+2 letters: airheaded, andradite, diagramed, eradiated, faradised, faradized, marinaded, radicated. | |
+3 letters: andradites, barricaded, desiderata, diagrammed, disarrayed, disparaged, dramatised, dramatized, endocardia, eradicated, irradiated, misawarded, paradiddle, railroaded, reradiated, taradiddle, tardigrade. | |
+4 letters: adrenalized, aggrandised, aggrandized, barricadoed, bastardised, bastardized, candidature, daydreaming, degradation, degradative, deracinated, disappeared, disarranged, discardable, divaricated, endocardial, grandaddies, imparadised, paradiddles, radicalised, radicalized, revalidated, standardise, standardize, taradiddles, tardigrades, tarradiddle. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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