dead-linen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdead-line.

1. A line that does not move or run. [dead adj. 23.]

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1860 Chambers's Encycl., Barbel Angling..with a dead~line, called a ledger.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Aug. 3/1 The scene is worked with miniature pulleys, ‘working lines’, and ‘dead lines’.

a. Military. A line drawn around a military prison, beyond which a prisoner is liable to be shot down. Originally U.S.

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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > line beyond which prisoner is shot

dead-line1864

1864 in Congress. Rec. 12 Jan. (1876) 384/1 The ‘dead line’, beyond which the prisoners are not allowed to pass.

1868 B. J. Lossing Hist. Civil War U.S. III. 600 Seventeen feet from the inner stockade was the ‘dead-line’, over which no man could pass and live.

1888 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 449 Should he some day escape alive across the dead-line of Winchesters, he will be hunted with bloodhounds.

figurative.1889 P. A. Bruce Plantation Negro 45 The instant he sought..to cross the social dead-line.

b. Printing. A guide-line marked on the bed of a printing-press.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > device for guiding paper

printing drum1839

dead-line1917

1917 F. S. Henry Printing for School & Shop xi. 183 If the chase is one that just fits the bed of the press, make certain that the type does not come outside of the dead-line on the press.

c. = time limit n.; esp. a time by which material has to be ready for inclusion in a particular issue of a publication. Originally U.S.

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the world > time > duration > [noun] > time-limit

terminusOE

stint1587

time limit1854

dead-line1920

1920 Chicago Herald & Examiner 2 Jan. 10/4 Corinne Griffith..is working on ‘Deadline at Eleven’, the newspaper play.

1929 Publishers' Weekly 27 July 349 Deadline for Poetry's $250 prize poem contest is September 1.

1948 Daily Tel. 31 May 6/5 The Security Council will not meet again until Wednesday, about 20 hours after the dead-line.

1958 Woman's Jrnl. Feb. 96/1 We wait till midnight... That's the deadline.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	dead-line
释义	dead-linen. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdead-line. 1. A line that does not move or run. [dead adj. 23.] ΚΠ 1860 Chambers's Encycl., Barbel Angling..with a dead~line, called a ledger. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Aug. 3/1 The scene is worked with miniature pulleys, ‘working lines’, and ‘dead lines’. 2. a. Military. A line drawn around a military prison, beyond which a prisoner is liable to be shot down. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > line beyond which prisoner is shot dead-line1864 1864 in Congress. Rec. 12 Jan. (1876) 384/1 The ‘dead line’, beyond which the prisoners are not allowed to pass. 1868 B. J. Lossing Hist. Civil War U.S. III. 600 Seventeen feet from the inner stockade was the ‘dead-line’, over which no man could pass and live. 1888 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 449 Should he some day escape alive across the dead-line of Winchesters, he will be hunted with bloodhounds. figurative.1889 P. A. Bruce Plantation Negro 45 The instant he sought..to cross the social dead-line. b. Printing. A guide-line marked on the bed of a printing-press. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > device for guiding paper printing drum1839 dead-line1917 1917 F. S. Henry Printing for School & Shop xi. 183 If the chase is one that just fits the bed of the press, make certain that the type does not come outside of the dead-line on the press. c. = time limit n.; esp. a time by which material has to be ready for inclusion in a particular issue of a publication. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > time-limit terminusOE stint1587 time limit1854 dead-line1920 1920 Chicago Herald & Examiner 2 Jan. 10/4 Corinne Griffith..is working on ‘Deadline at Eleven’, the newspaper play. 1929 Publishers' Weekly 27 July 349 Deadline for Poetry's $250 prize poem contest is September 1. 1948 Daily Tel. 31 May 6/5 The Security Council will not meet again until Wednesday, about 20 hours after the dead-line. 1958 Woman's Jrnl. Feb. 96/1 We wait till midnight... That's the deadline. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1860
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