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casualty
English
Etymology
From casual, from Middle French casuel, from Medieval Latin casualitas and Late Latin c?su?lis (“happening by chance”), from Latin c?sus (“event”) (English case), from cadere (“to fall”). Originally meaning “a chance event” (compare casual, as in “casual encounter”), it developed a negative meaning as “an unfortunate event”, especially the loss of a person.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ka?(?)?lti/
Noun
casualty (countable and uncountable, plural casualties)
- Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
- 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx,[1]
- The course of his education was like that of others, such as put him little in the way of extraordinary casualties.
- 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx,[1]
- A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
- (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
- (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
- (Britain) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
- An incidental charge or payment.
- Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
- (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
- , NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
- The non-necessary [causes] follow; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason of their uncertainty, casualty, and multitude […]
- , NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
Usage notes
The term casualty is sometimes used to mean “a killed person”; in more careful use this is referred to as a fatality, and casualty instead means “killed or injured”.
Synonyms
- (something that happens by chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
- (hospital's accident and emergency):
- emergency / emergency room / emergency department / emergency ward / E. R./E.R./ER
- casualty department / casualty ward
- accident and emergency / A&E
Hyponyms
- fatality
Derived terms
- casualty department
- casualty event
- casualty ward
Related terms
- casual
Translations
References
- “casualty”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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dead
English
Etymology
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English d?ad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?d, IPA(key): /d?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
- (West Country) IPA(key): /di?d/
Adjective
dead (comparative deader, superlative deadest)
- (usually not comparable) No longer living. (Also used as a noun.)
- 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
- Have respect for the dead.
- The villagers are mourning their dead.
- The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
- 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of life.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
- Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
- Without emotion.
- Stationary; static.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- Unproductive.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- 1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148:
- No mark of any kind should ever be made on a dead manuscript.
- 2017, Zhaomo Yang and Brian Johannesmeyer, "Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful":
- In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.
- 1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148:
- (engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- (not comparable) Full and complete.
- (not comparable) Exact.
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
- Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
- (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
- 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.
- 1849, Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, page 255:
- But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."
- 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
Usage notes
- In Middle and Early Modern English, the phrase is dead was more common where the present perfect form has died is common today. Example:
- 1611, King James Bible
- I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Gal. 2:21)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:dead
Antonyms
- alive
- living
Translations
Adverb
dead (not comparable)
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
- dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
- dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
- Suddenly and completely.
- He stopped dead.
- (informal) As if dead.
- dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Translations
Noun
dead (uncountable)
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- (collective, with the) Those persons who are dead.
Translations
Noun
dead (plural deads)
- (Britain) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
Verb
dead (third-person singular simple present deads, present participle deading, simple past and past participle deaded)
- (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
- (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.
Related terms
- deaden
- deadliness
- deadly
- deadness
- death
- undead
Derived terms
References
- dead at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Dade, Edda, adde, dade
French
Etymology
From English dead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?d/
Verb
dead
- (slang, anglicism) to succeed (in doing something well, "killing it")
Usage notes
The verb is left unconjugated: il dead, il a dead. Usage is limited to the present, as well as an infinitive or a past participle.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *daud.
Cognate with Old Frisian d?d (West Frisian dead), Old Saxon d?d, Dutch dood, Old High German t?t (German tot), Old Norse dauðr (Swedish död), Gothic ???????????????????? (dauþs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæ???d/
Adjective
d?ad
- dead
Declension
Derived terms
- d?adl??
- healfd?ad
Related terms
- d?aþ
Descendants
- Middle English: ded, deed
- Scots: dede, deed, deid
- English: dead
- Yola: deed
See also
- steorfan
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English dead or death (with the "th" changed to "d").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [de?ad]
Noun
dead (nominative plural deads)
- death, state being dead, state of death
Declension
Derived terms
- ädeadöl
- bludamodeadön
- dadeadön
- deadam
- deadamadel
- deadan
- deadanöp
- deadik
- deadio
- deadöf
- deadöfan
- deadöfik
- deadöl
- deadölan
- deadön
- deid
- deidöl
- deidön
- drakideidan
- drakihideidan
- drakijideidan
- edeadöl
- edeadön
- hideadan
- hideadöfan
- hideadölan
- jideadan
- jideadöfan
- jideadölan
- pedeidöl
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