Informal: When two threads get into a chicken before the egg situation in locking. In firearms, the part of the mechanism which explodes the charge (1540s, probably so called for its resemblance to a door-latching device), hence figurative phrase lock, stock, and barrel (which add up to the whole firearm) "the whole of something" (1842). Formal: A condition when two or more threads of execution are each waiting for resources in a cycle. 1300), and the more specific sense "gate and sluice system on a water channel used as a means of raising and lowering boats" (1570s).įrom 1540s as "a fastening together," hence "a grappling in wrestling" (c. The Old English sense "barrier, enclosure" led to the specific meaning "barrier on a stream or canal" (c. words seems to indicate two or more independent but formally identical substantival formations from the root". "The great diversity of meaning in the Teut. Ordinary mechanical locks work by means of an internal bolt or bar which slides and catches in an opening made to receive it. barrier, enclosure bargain, agreement, settlement, conclusion," from Proto-Germanic *lukana-, a verbal root meaning "to close" (source also of Old Frisian lok "enclosure, prison, concealed place," Old Norse lok "fastening, lock," Gothic usluks "opening," Old High German loh "dungeon," German Loch "opening, hole," Dutch luik "shutter, trapdoor"). "means of fastening," Old English loc "bolt, appliance for fastening a door, lid, etc. Expression not be (seen/found/caught) dead "have nothing to do with" is by 1915. Dead man's hand in poker, "pair of aces and pair of eights," is supposedly what Wild Bill Hickock held when Jack McCall shot him in 1876.
Dead soldier "emptied liquor bottle" is from 1913 the image is older (compare dead men "bottles emptied at a banquet," c. Dead letter is from 1703, used of laws lacking force as well as uncollected mail.
Dead duck "person defeated or soon to be, useless person" is by 1844, originally in U.S. 1400) resembles the nettle but does not sting.ĭead on is 1889, from marksmanship. as "utter, absolute, quite" (as in dead drunk, 1590s) from 1590s as "quite certain, sure, unerring " by 1881 as "direct, straight." Dead heat, a race in which more than one competitor reaches the goal at the same time, is from 1796. Meaning "insensible, void of perception" is from early 13c. deadlock on the Turkish Wikipedia.Middle English ded, from Old English dead "having ceased to live," also "torpid, dull " of water, "still, standing," from Proto-Germanic *daudaz (source also of Old Saxon dod, Danish død, Swedish död, Old Frisian dad, Middle Dutch doot, Dutch dood, Old High German tot, German tot, Old Norse dauðr, Gothic dauþs "dead"), a past-participle adjective based on *dau-, which is perhaps from PIE *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)).Wikipedia ptĭeadlock ( definite accusative deadlocku, plural deadlocklar) to unwillingness to compromise stalemate:Negotiations soon reached a. ( computing ) deadlock ( inability to continue operating due to two processes requiring a response from one other ) deadlock a state, as in negotiations, in which no agreement can be reached, due esp.Unadapted borrowing from English deadlock. Italian: punto morto m, arresto (it) m, blocco (it) m, stallo (it) m, stasi (it) f, fermo (it) m.Hungarian: holtpont (hu), patthelyzet (hu).
German: toter Punkt m, Stillstand (de) m.
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