the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"
a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"
people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"
lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay"
without anyone or anything intervening; "these two factors are directly related"; "he was directly responsible"; "measured the physical properties directly"