What (who) is dead wood - definition
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Dead wood (disambiguation)
dead wood
2007 FILM BY SEBASTIAN SMITH
Dead Wood (film); Deadwood (2007 film)
¦ noun useless or unproductive people or things.
dead wood
2007 FILM BY SEBASTIAN SMITH
Dead Wood (film); Deadwood (2007 film)
People or things that have been used for a very long time and that are no longer considered to be useful can be referred to as dead wood.
...the idea that historical linguistics is so much dead wood.
N-UNCOUNT [disapproval]
Dead Wood (novel)
2009 NOVEL BY CHRIS LONGMUIR
Dead Wood is a 2009 novel by the British writer Chris Longmuir.""Chris Longmuir - Dead Wood, The List, Aug 10, 2009 It won the Dundee International Book Prize, the largest monetary British Prize for first novels, in 2009, and was published by Polygon Books.
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Dead wood
Dead wood may refer to:
- Dead tree (disambiguation)
- Dead wood, the "straight man" in a double act
- Dead Wood (novel), a 2009 novel by Chris Longmuir
- Dead Wood (film), a 2007 British film
Pronunciation examples for dead wood
1. We're getting rid of terrible dead wood.
Making Cooking Casually Understandable _ Sam Zien _ Talks at Google
2. And he took my machete, chopped a piece of dead wood,
Mark Plotkin _ Talks at Google
3. intentionally lit before the dry season, to
remove the dead wood and other fuel. Firefighters
The Science of Wildfires
Examples of use of dead wood
1. Michael Atherton Sunday Telegraph We‘ll never beat Australia carrying dead wood and Ashley Giles and Geraint Jones are dead wood – but I wouldn‘t drop them.
2. MI5 has been cleared of dead wood such as Peter Wright and his friends.
3. It removes dead wood that could fuel future fires, and it clears the area for seedlings.
4. Hirst concedes that there is some "dead wood" in his current output.
5. He cleared out the dead wood and began building the CBS schedule programme by programme.