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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A buried plate, wall or block, some distance from a sheet pile or other retaining wall, which serves to anchor back the wall through a tie between the two. The dead man is held in place by its own weight and by passive pressure from the soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: DEAD MAN |
| English words defined with "DEAD MAN": bear away, bear off ♦ carry away, carry off ♦ dead ♦ take away. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DEAD MAN": anchor block, anchor wall ♦ curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Embalm ♦ Glory Hand ♦ refuge ♦ sheet pile wall. (references) |
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Screenplays | It was the walk of a dead man. (Double Indemnity; writing credit: James M. Cain; Billy Wilder) You gonna line up with a dead man Jimbo? (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison) I'm a dead man and buggered to boot! (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) The American is a dead man, First Secretary. (Firefox; writing credit: Craig Thomas; Alex Lasker) I'm a dead man anyway. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) | |
Lyrics | Why he's the kind o' cat that'll make a dead man cry (THAT'S KILLER JOE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer) You, you make a dead man cum (START ME UP; performing artist: Rolling Stones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In the Steps of a Dead Man (1974) Once Upon a Dead Man (1971) Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man (1971) Ties to a Dead Man (2003) Interview with a Dead Man (1999) | |
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![]() | Photograph shows a dead man lying inside the door of a barber shop. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Dead man lying on ground next to rifle--U.S. Army expeditions in Central Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Homer | By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus. |
Pompey | A dead man cannot bite. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To gather laurels and to steal the shoes from a dead man, seems to us impossible to the same hand. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Any prospect of awakening or coming to life to a dead man makes indifferent all times and places. |
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Human Rights | Turkey | Two relatives of the dead man also were being tried on the charge of resisting an officer. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutoeus maximus. |
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Expression using "DEAD MAN": the dead man. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "DEAD MAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | mrtvý (dead, dull, lifeless, unemployed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | forankring (anchor block, anchor strap, anchor wall, anchorage, anchorage(for sheetpiling), buckstave, precision attachment, stay, tie rod), anker (anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verankering (anchor, anchor block, anchor strap, anchor wall, anchorage, anchorage(for sheetpiling), anchoring, mooring, pinning, shoe, spud), trekanker (anchor block, anchor wall, anchorage), anker (anchor, anker, armature, brace, cramp-iron). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | tirant, homme-mort (dead-man), auto-ancrage (dead anchor block, dead anchorage), ancrage mort (dead anchor block, dead anchorage), ancrage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | toter Mann, Ankertafel (anchor block, anchor wall, anchorage), Ankerplatte (anchor block, anchor wall, anchorage), Ankerkörper (anchor block, anchor wall, anchorage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dummy, halott (casualty, dead, dead woman, deceased, gone, goner, stone-dead), asztal (board, desk, table). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tirante (tie beam), ancoraggio (anchorage, berth, harborage, harbourage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadday anmay tirante (binder, brace, bridle, gunning, nail biting, shoulder strap, straining, strap, stringent, taut, tense, tie, tight, tighten, trace), muerto (casualty, dead, deceased, died, doornail, dull, dummy, expired, fatality, late, lifeless, lost, quiescent), botella vacía (empty bottle), anclaje (anchorage). (various references) död kropp, påle (pale, pile, pole, post, stake, stanchion, upright), lik (after the fashion of, cadaver, carcase, corpse, corpus, equal, even, level, like, out, similar, stiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 7, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai anekaqisen o nekroV kai hrxato lalein kai edwken auton th mhtri autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et resedit qui erat mortuus et coepit loqui et dedit illum matri suae |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa aras se þe dead wæs. and ongan sprecan: þa agef he hine hys meder; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he that was deed sat vp ayen, and bigan to speke; and he yaf hym to his modir. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And ye deed sate vp and beganne to speake. And he delyvered him to his mother. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak, and he delivered him to his mother. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the dead man got up, and words came from his lips. And he gave him to his mother. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 7, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang namatay milingkod ug misugod sa pagsulti. Ug gihatag niya siya ngadto sa iyang inahan. |
| Chinese | 那 死 人 就 坐 起 、 並 " 說 話 . 耶 穌 便 把 他 交 給 他 母 親 。 |
| Croatian | I mrtvac se podiže i progovori, a on ga dade njegovoj majci. |
| Danish | Og den døde rejste sig op og begyndte at tale; og han gav ham til hans Moder. |
| Dutch | En de dode zat overeind, en begon te spreken. En Hij gaf hem aan zijn moeder. |
| Finnish | Niin kuollut nousi istualleen ja rupesi puhumaan. Ja hän antoi hänet hänen äidillensä. |
| French | Et le mort s`assit, et se mit parler. Jésus le rendit sa mère. |
| German | Und der Tote richtete sich auf und fing an zu reden; und er gab ihn seiner Mutter. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pemuda yang sudah mati itu, bangun duduk dan mulai berbicara. Maka Yesus menyerahkannya kepada ibunya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka orang yang mati itu pun bangkitlah duduk, lalu mulai berkata-kata; kemudian diserahkannya kepada maknya. |
| Maori | Na ka noho te tupapaku ki runga, ka anga ka korero. A hoatu ana ia e ia ki tona whaea. |
| Norwegian | Og den døde reiste sig op og begynte å tale; og han gav ham til hans mor. |
| Portuguese | O que estivera morto sentou-se e começou a falar. Então Jesus o entregou sua mãe. |
| Rumanian | Mortul a wezut kn capul oaselor, wi a knceput sq vorbeascq. Isus l -a dat knapoi maicii lui. |
| Shuar | Tutai niisha nantaki pujus chichaamiayi. Tura Jesus ni nukurin "Jujú uchiram" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Yule aliyekufa akaketi, akaanza kuongea. Na Yesu akamkabidhi kwa mama yake. |
| Swedish | Då satte sig den döde upp och begynte tala. Och han gav honom åt hans moder. |
| Uma | Kabilasa to mate toei we'i, kaliliu mohura-imi pai' -i mololita. Na'uli' Yesus mpo'uli' -ki tina-na: "Oi-mi ana' -nu, totina." |
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Misspellings | |
"DEAD MAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deadman. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-m-n" | |
-1 letter: anadem, damned, demand, madden, maenad. | |
-2 letters: adman, admen, amend, daman, maned, menad, named. | |
-3 letters: amen, dada, dame, damn, dead, dean, made, mana, mane, mead, mean, mend, nada, name, nema. | |
-4 letters: add, ama, ana, and, ane, dad, dam, den, end, mad, mae, man, med, men, nae, nam. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, am, an, de, ed, em. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-m-n" | |
+1 letter: handmade, mandated. | |
+2 letters: andromeda, demandant, dreamland, endamaged, mansarded, marinaded, undamaged. | |
+3 letters: andromedas, damascened, deaminated, demandable, demandants, dreamlands, handmaiden, maidenhead, mandamused, manhandled, meadowland. | |
+4 letters: daydreaming, delaminated, handmaidens, maidenheads, meadowlands. | |
+5 letters: animadverted, undramatized. | |
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