cul-de-sac
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[edit] Etymology
French for "bottom of the bag": cul < Latin culus ("bottom") + de ("of") + sac < Latin saccus < Greek σάκκος ("sack", "bag") < Hebrew שק (saq, "sack").
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[edit] Noun
cul-de-sac (plural: cul-de-sacs or culs-de-sac)
- A blind alley or dead end street.
- (US): A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on street, with little or no through-traffic.
- An impasse.
- 2005 February 14, National Review:
- Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.
- 2005 February 14, National Review:
- (medicine) A sacklike cavity or tube open at one end only.
[edit] Translations
blind alley
circular area at the end of a dead end street
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impasse
medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
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