deadline
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to the Oxford English Dictionary, early usage refers simply to lines that do not move, such as one used in angling. Slightly later American usage refers to a boundary in a prison which prisoners must not cross. There is only indirect evidence that the sense of "due date" may be connected with this use of the term in prison camps during the American Civil War, when it referred to a physical line or boundary beyond which prisoners were shot.[1] In fact, the term is no longer found in print by the end of the 19th century, but it soon resurfaces in writing in 1917 as a printing term for a guideline on the bed of a printing press beyond which text will not print. Three years later, the term is found in print in the sense of "time limit" in the closely connected publishing industry, indicating the time after which material would not make it into a newspaper or periodical.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deadline (plural deadlines)
- A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed.
- Synonym: closing date
- I must make this deadline or my boss will kill me!
- 2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
- TfW's [Transport for Wales] plans to meet the PRM [Persons with Reduced Mobility] deadline and withdraw all Pacers by 1 January have been made more difficult by delays to introduction of Class 769 and 230 units.
- (archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
- (archaic) A line that does not move. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
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Verb
[edit]deadline (third-person singular simple present deadlines, present participle deadlining, simple past and past participle deadlined)
References
[edit]- ^ “Andersonville Prison”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2017 April 23 (last accessed), archived from the original on 7 March 2017
- ^ “The Mavens' Word of the Day”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], 2013 October 16 (last accessed), archived from the original on 16 October 2013
Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English deadline.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deadline m (plural deadlines, diminutive deadlinetje n)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English deadline.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deadline (colloquial)
Declension
[edit]The declension of this word is problematic. Joukahainen recommends the nalle-type declension, presumably based on the (English) spelling of the nominative of the word:
Inflection of deadline (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | deadline | deadlinet | |
genitive | deadlinen | deadlinejen | |
partitive | deadlinea | deadlineja | |
illative | deadlineen | deadlineihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | deadline | deadlinet | |
accusative | nom. | deadline | deadlinet |
gen. | deadlinen | ||
genitive | deadlinen | deadlinejen deadlinein rare | |
partitive | deadlinea | deadlineja | |
inessive | deadlinessa | deadlineissa | |
elative | deadlinesta | deadlineista | |
illative | deadlineen | deadlineihin | |
adessive | deadlinella | deadlineilla | |
ablative | deadlinelta | deadlineilta | |
allative | deadlinelle | deadlineille | |
essive | deadlinena | deadlineina | |
translative | deadlineksi | deadlineiksi | |
abessive | deadlinetta | deadlineitta | |
instructive | — | deadlinein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
On the other hand, the nalle-type declension does not fit the pronunciation, which in fact follows the risti-type declension (except in the nominative: /dedlain/), in other words, /dedlainin/, /dedlainia/, etc. in the genitive, partitive, etc. It's probably advisable to avoid using this word in writing and to use Finnish synonyms instead.
Synonyms
[edit]- kalmanviiva (colloquial)
- kuolemanlinja (colloquial)
- kuolonlinja (colloquial)
- määräaika
- takaraja
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “deadline”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English deadline.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deadline m inan
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | deadline | deadline'y |
genitive | deadline'u | deadline'ów |
dative | deadline'owi | deadline'om |
accusative | deadline | deadline'y |
instrumental | deadline'em | deadline'ami |
locative | deadlinie | deadline'ach |
vocative | deadlinie | deadline'y |
Further reading
[edit]- deadline in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- deadline in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- deadline at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]deadline c
- a deadline
Declension
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛdlaɪn
- Rhymes:English/ɛdlaɪn/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with archaic senses
- English verbs
- en:Military
- en:Time
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch unadapted borrowings from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish unadapted borrowings from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- fi:Time
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish unadapted borrowings from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛdlajn
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛdlajn/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- Polish informal terms
- pl:Time
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns