English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Pronunciation [ edit ] dead end plural dead ends
( idiomatic ) street or path or tunnel that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.
That road comes to a dead end at the lake.
( mining ) drift or tunnel .
1912 Queensland Annual Report of the Under Secretary for Mines for 1911. Brisbane, Australia. p.167
The ventilation of dead ends — always a serious problem — has in some mines been an absolute necessity. At the Oriental Consols Gold Mine a crosscut at a depth of 2,600 ft. has been continued to over 1,400 ft. from the shaft , and at the No. 2 South Great Eastern Gold Mine crosscutting and driving has been carried on at depths of 1,750 ft. and 2,000 ft. In order to ventilate these dead ends blowers have been used to force air into the faces through lines of pipes. A position that offers no hope of change or progress .
Her father suggested that she decline the job because it was a dead end .
A split end in the hair .
1890 The Young Lady's Private Counselor , page 208 :Cut the ends of the hair once a month certain — no matter if you do cut but just the tips of a fourth of an inch, cut it. Cut off the dead ends every month as regularly as the new moon comes round.
Synonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] street or path that goes nowhere
Arabic: طَرِيق مَسْدُود m ( ṭarīq masdūd ) , طَرِيق غَيْر نَافِذ m ( ṭarīq ḡayr nāfiḏ )
Armenian: փակուղի (hy) ( pʻakuġi )
Azerbaijani: dalan (az)
Bulgarian: задънена улица f ( zadǎnena ulica )
Catalan: cul-de-sac (ca) m atzucac (ca) m carreró sense sortida m carreró sense eixida m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 掘頭巷 ／ 掘头巷 ( gwat6 tau4 hong6-2 )
Mandarin: 死衚衕 ／ 死胡同 (zh) ( sǐhútòng ) , 死路 (zh) ( sǐlù ) , 死巷 (zh) ( sǐxiàng ) , 末路 (zh) ( mòlù )
Czech: slepá ulička f
Danish: blind vej c blindgyde (da) c blindgade c ( rare )
Dutch: beluik (nl) m doodlopende weg m
Estonian: umbtee umbtänav tupik
Finnish: umpikuja (fi) , pussikatu
French: cul-de-sac (fr) m impasse (fr) f voie sans issue (fr) f
Galician: rúa cega f
Georgian: ჩიხი (ka) ( čixi )
German: Sackgasse (de) f Stichstraße (de) f
Greek: αδιέξοδο (el) n ( adiéxodo ) , αδιέξοδος (el) f ( adiéxodos )
Ancient: ἀδιέξοδος f ( adiéxodos )
Hebrew: מבוי סתום (he) m ( mavoi satum )
Hungarian: zsákutca (hu)
Icelandic: botnlangi (is) m blindgata f botngata f
Indonesian: jalan buntu (id)
Italian: cul di sacco m ronco m strada senza uscita f vicolo cieco m cul de sac (it) m
Japanese: 袋小路 (ja) ( ふくろこうじ, fukurokōji ) , 行き止まり (ja) ( いきどまり, ikidomari ) , 行き詰まり (ja) ( いきづまり, ikizumari )
Kazakh: тұйық ( tūiyq )
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latin: fundula f
Latvian: strupceļš m
Macedonian: сле́па у́лица f ( slépa úlica ) , ќо́р-сокак m ( ḱór-sokak )
Malay: jalan mati (ms)
Norman: tchu-d'sa m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blindvei (no) m blindveg (no) m blindgate (no) m or f
Nynorsk: blindveg m blindgate f
Polish: ślepa uliczka (pl) f ślepy zaułek
Portuguese: beco sem saída m rua sem saída (pt) f cul-de-sac (pt) m
Romanian: fundătură (ro) f fundac (ro) n drum înfundat n
Russian: тупи́к (ru) m ( tupík )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: слепа улица f слијепа улица f
Roman: slepa ulica f slijepa ulica f
Sicilian: curtigghiu (scn) m
Spanish: calle sin salida f callejón sin salida (es) m punto muerto (es) m calle ciega f
Swedish: återvändsgränd (sv) c
Tagalog: daang sukol
Thai: ทางตัน (th) ( taang-dtan )
Turkish: çıkmaz sokak (tr)
Ukrainian: глухий кут ( hluxyj kut )
Vietnamese: ngõ cụt (vi) , đường cụt
Volapük: sakalusüt
position that offers no hope of progress
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