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ˈdead-line
1. A line that does not move or run. [dead a. 23.]
1860Chamber's Encycl., Barbel, Angling..with a dead⁓line, called a ledger. 1892Pall Mall G. 5 Aug. 3/1 The scene is worked with miniature pulleys, ‘working lines’, and ‘dead lines’.
2. a. Mil. A line drawn around a military prison, beyond which a prisoner is liable to be shot down. orig. U.S.
1864in Congress. Rec. 12 Jan. (1876) 384/1 The ‘dead line’, beyond which the prisoners are not allowed to pass. 1868B. J. Lossing Hist. Civ. War U.S. III. 600 Seventeen feet from the inner stockade was the ‘dead-line’, over which no man could pass and live. 1888Contemp. Review Mar. 449 Should he some day escape alive across the dead-line of Winchesters, he will be hunted with bloodhounds.
fig.1889Bruce Plant. 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.
1917F. 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; esp. a time by which material has to be ready for inclusion in a particular issue of a publication. orig. U.S.
1920Chicago Herald & Examiner 2 Jan. 10/4 Corinne Griffith..is working on ‘Deadline at Eleven’, the newspaper play. 1929Publishers' Weekly 27 July 349 Deadline for Poetry's $250 prize poem contest is September 1. 1948Daily Tel. 31 May 6/5 The Security Council will not meet again until Wednesday, about 20 hours after the dead-line. 1958Woman's Jrnl. Feb. 96/1 We wait till midnight... That's the deadline. |