Acid vs Dead - What's the difference?
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Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
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(lb) Sour-tempered.
*(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
*:He was stern and his face as acid as ever.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
(lb) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
A sour substance.
(chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-
# Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
# Any compound that easily donates protons; a
# Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
(slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
(not comparable) No longer living.
(hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
* 1600 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , Act III, Scene 3:
(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Without emotion.
Stationary; static.
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Unproductive.
Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
(not comparable) No longer used or required.
(not comparable, sports) Not in play.
Tagged out.
(not comparable) Full and complete.
(not comparable) Exact.
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
(informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
(legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
(engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
(lb) Exactly right.
(lb) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
As if dead.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Charles Dickens)
(in the singular) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
(in the plural) Those who have died.
(archaic) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".
To prevent by disabling; stop.
* 1826 , The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich , collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
* Chapman
(UK, transitive, slang) To kill.
* 2006 , Leighanne Boyd, Once Upon A Time In The Bricks (page 178)
* 2008 , Marvlous Harrison, The Coalition (page 106)
As nouns the difference between acid and dead
is that acid is acid (a food with a sharp taste) while dead is tooth.As an adjective acid
is acid; sour; tart (having a sharp taste such as that of vinegar or a lemon).acid
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(wikipedia acid)Adjective
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* (English Citations of "acid")Synonyms
* acidicAntonyms
* alkaline * baseNoun
Antonyms
* alkali * baseHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* acid rain * acid test * acid-base equilibrium * acid-base indicator * acid-fast * acidhead * acid house * acidic * acidify * acidimeter * acidity * acid jazz * acidly * acidophile / acidophilic * acidosis * acidulate * acidulous * acetic acid * acetylsalicylic acid * acid of air * acid of amber * acid of ants * acid of apples * acid of lemon * acid of milk * acid of salt * acid of sugar * acrylic acid * adipic acid * alginic acid * alpha-hydroxy acid * amino acid * arachidic acid * arachidonic acid * arsenic acid * ascorbic acid * aspartic acid * benzoic acid * bile acid * boric acid * bromic acid * butyric acid * capric acid * caproic acid * caprylic acid * carbamic acid * carbolic acid, phenol * carbonic acid * carboxylic acid * cerotic acid * chloric acid * cholic acid * chromic acid * citric acid * conjugate acid * connorstictic acid * consalazinic acid * constictic acid * convirensic acid * crotonic acid * cryptostictic acid * cyanic acid * cyanuric acid * cyclamic acid * deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA * erucic acid * ethanoic acid * fatty acid * folic acid * formic acid * fulminic acid * fumaric acid * fumarprotocetraric acid * galbinic acid * gibberellic acid * gluconic acid * glutamic acid * glyceric acid * glycolic acid * humic acid * hydriodic acid * hydrobromic acid * hydrochloric acid * hydrocyanic acid * hydrofluoric acid * hydrosulphurous acid * hydroxy acid * hypobromous acid * hypochlorous acid * hypofluorous acid * hypohalous acid * hypoiodous acid * hypophosphorous acid * hyposalazinic acid * hypostietic acid * hyposulphurous acid * indoleacetic acid * isobutyric acid * ketipic acid * lactic acid * lauric acid * Lewis acid * linoleic acid * linolenic acid * lysergic acid * maleic acid * malic acid * malonic acid * margaric acid * metaphosphoric acid * methacrylic acid * mucic acid * muriatic acid * myristic acid * nicotinic acid * nitric acid * nitrous acid * norisonotatic acid * norstictic acid * nucleic acid * oleic acid * * * osmic acid * oxaloacetic acid * oxalic acid * palmitic acid * pantothenic acid * pectic acid * pelargonic acid * perchloric acid * periodic acid * permanganic acid * petroselinic acid * phosphoric acid * phosphorous acid * phthalic acid * picric acid * propanoic acid * propionic acid * protocetraric acid * prussic acid * pyrogallic acid * pyrophosphoric acid * pyruvic acid * racemic acid * retinoic acid * ribonucleic acid, RNA * ricinoleic acid * salazinic acid * salicylic acid * sebacic acid * selenic acid * silicic acid * stearic acid * stictic acid * suberic acid * succinic acid * sulphonic acid, sulfonic acid * sulphuric acid, sulfuric acid * sulphurous acid, sulfurous acid * tannic acid * tantalic acid * tartaric acid * telluric acid * thiocyanic acid * thiosulphuric acid, thiosulfuric acid * titanic acid * toluic acid * trans fatty acid * tungstic acid * undecilenic acid * uric acid * usnic acid * valeric acid * vanadic acid * virensic acidSee also
* acerbic * acro- * pHReferences
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* * ----dead
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Adjective
(er)- All of my grandparents are dead .
- When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
- He is dead to me.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- the dead''' load on the floor''; ''a '''dead lift .
- dead''' air''; ''a '''dead glass of soda .
- dead''' time''; '''''dead fields ; also in compounds.
- OK, the circuit's dead . Go ahead and cut the wire.
- Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- That monitor is dead ; don’t bother hooking it up.
- There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
- Is this beer glass dead ?
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead .
- dead''' stop''; '''''dead''' sleep''; '''''dead''' giveaway''; '''''dead silence
- dead''' center''; '''''dead''' aim''; ''a '''dead''' eye''; ''a '''dead level
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead .
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead , mister!"
- a dead floor
- (Shakespeare)
- A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead .
- the dead spindle of a lathe
Quotations
* (English Citations of "dead")Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* alive * livingAdverb
(-)- dead''' right''; '''''dead''' level''; '''''dead''' flat''; '''''dead''' straight''; '''''dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- dead''' wrong''; '''''dead''' set''; '''''dead''' serious''; '''''dead''' drunk''; '''''dead''' broke''; '''''dead''' earnest''; '''''dead''' certain''; '''''dead''' slow''; '''''dead''' sure''; '''''dead''' simple''; '''''dead''' honest''; '''''dead''' accurate''; '''''dead''' easy''; '''''dead''' scared''; '''''dead''' solid''; '''''dead''' black''; '''''dead''' white''; '''''dead empty ;
- dead''' tired''; '''''dead''' quiet''; '''''dead''' asleep''; '''''dead''' pale''; '''''dead''' cold''; '''''dead still
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Noun
(dead)- The dead''' of night.'' ''The '''dead of winter.
- Have respect for the dead .
Synonyms
* (those who have died) the deceasedVerb
(en verb)- "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead [????????] in vain." Galatians 2:21, King James Version (1611).
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.
- This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
- “What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.
