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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deadlock
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
▪ Later attempts to solve the political deadlock have failed.
■ NOUN
budget
▪ Court decisions from previous budget deadlocks keep most money flowing without a spending plan.
▪ Bunds performed better than U. S. Treasuries this week, which were hurt by the budget deadlock.
■ VERB
break
▪ Then, at last, Guido broke the deadlock.
▪ House, Senate also try to break deadlocks on other issues.
▪ Perhaps here was the key to break the deadlock, the key to the throne of the Wyrmberg.
▪ Marco Van Basten grabbed his fourth goal of the season, 12 minutes after Daniele Massaro had broken the deadlock.
▪ But Mr Razali is the first envoy to successfully break the deadlock.
▪ Such an intervention could help break the current deadlock between Livingstone and the Government, which is heading for the courts.
▪ Senior officials will meet again in October in an attempt to break the deadlock.
▪ Mr Yeltsin can break the deadlock only by choosing the second, riskier, course of action.
end
▪ The first trial ended in deadlock in 1994.
▪ Their first trial in Van Nuys Superior Court ended in deadlock in 1994.
▪ One juror from the first Menendez trial, which ended in deadlock in 1994, was among the spectators.
reach
▪ It is inevitable that the lawyers will reach deadlock in their negotiations over the detailed terms in the purchase and sale agreement.
▪ The strike appeared to have reached a deadlock.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the same year the issue came before Parliament, but there was complete deadlock.
▪ Syria and Israel broke a six-month deadlock in their talks when they sent peace envoys to Maryland.
▪ The deadlock over the US budget had turned away some investors.
▪ The talks have reached a complete deadlock.
▪ Their first trial ended in deadlock when the jury could not reach an agreement.
▪ There are hopes that an agreement can be made to break the deadlock between the White House and Congress.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night.
▪ Court decisions from previous budget deadlocks keep most money flowing without a spending plan.
▪ In 1970, the deadlock lasted three months.
▪ Nearer home, Northern Ireland only produced renewed deadlock.
▪ Their first trial in Van Nuys Superior Court ended in deadlock in 1994.
▪ This has led to parliamentary deadlock.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deadlock

deadlock \dead"lock`\, n.

  1. A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

  2. A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.

    Things are at a deadlock.
    --London Times.

    The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two.
    --The Century.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deadlock

"complete standstill," from dead (adj.), in its emphatic use, + lock (n.). First attested 1779 in Sheridan's play "The Critic."

Wiktionary
deadlock

n. 1 A standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse 2 (context computing English) An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation vb. to cause or to come to a deadlock

WordNet
deadlock

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

Wikipedia
Deadlock (Star Trek: Voyager)

__NOTOC__ "Deadlock" is the 37th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 21st episode of the second season.

Deadlock (disambiguation)

Deadlock or deadlocked may refer to:

Deadlock (band)

Deadlock is a German melodic death metal band from Schwarzenfeld, Bavaria, Germany. In 2010 they supported Lacuna Coil on tour. The band consists of only founding member Sebastian Reichl (guitar) and with more recent recruits John Gahlert (vocals), Margie Gerlitz (vocals), Ferdinand Rewicki (guitar) and Werner Riedl (drums).

Deadlock (Battlestar Galactica)

"Deadlock" is the eighteenth episode in the fourth season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. It aired on television in the United States and Canada. The survivor count shown in the title sequence is 39,556.

Deadlock (novel)

Deadlock is a detective novel by Sara Paretsky told in the first person by private eye (Vic) V. I. Warshawski.

Deadlock (1931 film)

Deadlock is a 1931 British crime film directed by George King and starring Stewart Rome, Marjorie Hume and Warwick Ward. It is on the British Film Institute's list of the 75 Most Wanted list of lost films.

Deadlock (1970 film)

Deadlock is a 1970 West German spaghetti western directed by Roland Klick. It is perhaps best known today for the soundtrack supplied by Can. It is found on the 1970 Can album Soundtracks.

Deadlock

In concurrent computing, a deadlock occurs when two competing actions wait for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does. Deadlock is a common problem in multiprocessing systems, parallel computing, and distributed systems, where software and hardware locks are used to handle shared resources and implement process synchronization.

In an operating system, a deadlock occurs when a process or thread enters a waiting state because a requested system resource is held by another waiting process, which in turn is waiting for another resource held by another waiting process. If a process is unable to change its state indefinitely because the resources requested by it are being used by another waiting process, then the system is said to be in a deadlock.

In a transactional database, a deadlock occurs when two processes, each within its own transaction, updates two rows of data (that is, records) but in the opposite order. For example, process A updates row 1 then row 2 at the same time that process B updates row 2 then row 1. Process A can't finish updating row 2 until process B is finished, but process B cannot finish updating row 1 until process A is finished. No matter how much time is allowed to pass, this situation will never resolve itself. Because of this, a database management system will typically kill the transaction of the process that has done the least amount of work.

In a communications system, deadlocks occur mainly due to lost or corrupt signals rather than resource contention.

Deadlock (1943 film)

Deadlock is a 1943 British crime film starring John Slater in a dual role as twin brothers. A quota quickie, it was listed on the British Film Institute's BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films; as a result, it was rediscovered.

Usage examples of "deadlock".

The messenger who brought the letter, however, got mildly drunk in Sanly Bowitts and expressed his own opinion of the affair: either the cardinals would all appoint conclavists and go home for the winter, leaving a hopeless deadlock, or would elect an ill old man who could be expected to die before settling any real problems.

I was then released from deadlock status and lived for a time as a regular prisoner in Cellblock 1 on the fourth tier.

Immediately, instabilities arose among the simulated cores, insoluble disagreements throwing them into deadlock.

In the event of a tie, the speaker, a nonvoting member, was empowered to break the deadlock.

After the reapportionment made pursuant to the 1930 census, deadlocks between the Governor and legislature in several States, produced a series of cases in which the right of the Governor to veto a reapportionment bill was questioned.

In the deadlock Piccolomini was elected, taking the name Pius III in honor of his uncle, the former Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, who had been Pius II.

THE DEADLOCK IN DARWINISM--PART III Now let me return to the recent division of biological opinion into two main streams--Lamarckism and Weismannism Both Lamarckians and Weismannists, not to mention mankind in general, admit that the better adapted to its surroundings a living form may be, the more likely it is to outbreed its compeers.

He undid the large, five-lever deadlock first, then the equivalent of a Yale lock, and pushed the door open for me.

It appeared that the deadlock between the rebels and those loyal to the President was still being maintained, with the rebels holding the poor northside areas and the loyalists the wealthier city centre.

There had come to be a deadlock in affairs, during which neither of the two old and recognised leaders of parties could command a sufficient following for the carrying on of a government.

He bluffed the deadlock without turning a hairsmiled calmly at it and asked it to play ballbecause that was the only thing to do.

The panel did manage to convict Judge Harvey Shenberg and ex-judge David Goodhart, while painfully acquitting Judge Al Sepe of most charges and deadlocking on others.

Through the bias in our Instrument to do this, through reasoning between terms not in the same plane, an enormous amount of confusion, perplexity and mental deadlocking occurs.

The Anasati heir could refuse to support Minwanabi and Acoma both, deadlocking the High Council.

Under the present rules I decide deadlocks, which gives me control as long as George sticks by me.