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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dead end
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Working at the warehouse seemed like a dead end.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He realized that the job at which he had been aiming all these years seemed to him to be a dead end.
▪ He thinks they have reached an evolutionary dead end.
▪ It's a dead end isn't it.
▪ It felt like some sort of dead end.
▪ Like the precise astronomical observations of the Maya, these technical achievements proved to be a dead end.
▪ This was a dead end for me.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dead end

"closed end of a passage," 1886, from dead (adj.) + end (n.). Figurative use is attested from 1922. As an adjective, from 1928; as a verb, from 192

  1. Related: Deadender (by 1996).

Wiktionary
dead end

alt. (context idiomatic English) A path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end. n. (context idiomatic English) A path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.

WordNet
dead end
  1. n. a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac]

  2. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations" [syn: deadlock, impasse, stalemate, standstill]

Wikipedia
Dead End (1937 film)

Dead End is a 1937 crime drama film directed by William Wyler. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney. It is notable as being the first film appearance of the Dead End Kids.

Dead end (street)

A dead end is a street with only one inlet/outlet. While historically built for other reasons, one of its modern uses is to calm vehicle traffic.

The term is understood in all varieties of English, but the official terminology and traffic signs include many different alternatives. Some of these are used only regionally. Even within the United States, for example, there are regions where the originally French term cul-de-sac ( or ) is completely unknown and others where it is common. Cul-de-sac is used in many English-speaking countries, but it is much less common than dead end. In the United States and other countries, cul-de-sac is often not an exact synonym for dead end and refers to dead ends with a circular end, which makes it easy to turn around. See below for regionally used terms.

Dead End (2003 film)

Dead End is a 2003 French horror film directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa. Although Dead End only had a budget of $900,000 it made a total of $77 million from DVD sales.

Dead End (Angel)

"Dead End" is episode 18 of season 2 in the television show Angel. Written by David Greenwalt and directed by James A. Contner, it was originally broadcast on April 24, 2001 on the WB television network. In "Dead End", Lindsey receives a new hand from Wolfram & Hart, which appears to have an evil agenda of its own. Angel and Lindsey independently discover that Wolfram & Hart forcefully removes limbs from people to obtain transplants, and work together to destroy the clinic responsible. Disillusioned, Lindsey leaves Los Angeles.

Dead End

Dead End or dead end may refer to:

  • Dead end (street), a street connected only at one end with other streets, called by many other official names, including cul-de-sac.
  • See also cul-de-sac (disambiguation)
Dead End (manga)

is a manga by Shohei Manabe. Although the original name was actually a transliteration from the English The End, Tokyopop changed the name to Dead End for the US market.

Dead End (Turbo album)

Dead End is the sixth studio album by the Polish heavy metal band Turbo. It was released in 1990 in the United Kingdom through Under One Flag. The album was recorded in 1990, at Giełda studio, Poznań. The cover art was created by Jerzy Kurczak and photographss by Jacek Sroka.

Dead End (band)

Dead End (stylized as DEAD END) is an influential Japanese heavy metal/ hard rock band formed in Tokyo in 1984. They were one of few Japanese metal bands who had international exposure in the United States during the eighties. Originally disbanded in 1990, Dead End reunited in 2009 after almost two decades.

Although they achieved only limited commercial success in their homeland, Dead End had a significant impact on its rock scene, influencing numerous musicians in, or related to, the developing visual kei scene in the 1990s. Specifically Morrie who inspired the visual appearance and rough vocal style of many prominent singers.

Dead End (1977 film)

Dead End is a 1977 Iranian drama film written and directed by Parviz Sayyad. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where Mary Apick won the award for Best Actress.

Dead End (2013 film)

Dead End is a South Korean feature film. It was released on November 14, 2013. The director of this 96-minute mystery/thriller was Yoon Yeo-chang . The lead is played by Kim Min-joon . Other cast members include Yoo Sang-jeon and Choi Joon-yong .

Dead End (1969 film)

Dead End is a 1969 Hong Kong action drama film directed by Chang Cheh and starring Ti Lung, Lee Ching, David Chiang, Chan Hung-lit and Angela Yu Chien. Dead End marks the first film that Chang directed set in modern day, Ti's first leading role and the first collaboration of director Chang with stars Ti and Chiang, dubbed "The Iron Triangle," because of their successful line of films together which would last several years.

Dead End (play)

Dead End is a stage play written by playwright Sidney Kingsley. The play premiered on Broadway in October 1935 and ran for two years. It is notable for being the first project to feature the Dead End Kids, who would go on to star in several Hollywood films and later branched out into the Little Tough Guys, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys series.

Usage examples of "dead end".

But if Alaspin proved to be the final dead end, as he half suspected it would, then he might have time and need of some sympathetic company.

It is not like film, which is really just the dead end of linear narrative, just as 12-tone music is the dead end of music by the stave.

But it's starting to look more and more like we've come to a dead end, at least as far as this section of the river is concerned.

Judd wouldn't admit it to Galen, but his own efforts to bribe his way to safety had come to a dead end lately.

Nobody's likely to comedown the road at this hour -it'sa dead end.

Twenty paces more, and they came to a halt in front of a dead end.