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Dead air   /dɛd ɛr/   Listen
Dead air

noun
1.
An inadvertent interruption in a broadcast during which there is no sound.





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"Dead air" Quotes from Famous Books



... the room, walked as far as the middle of it and looked about him. To his sensitive apprehension, whetted to fineness in the years of his wandering and gazing, it was as though a chill and dead air filled the place, a suggestion as of funerals. Opposite the door, two tall windows, like sepulchral portals, framed oblongs of the outer darkness; and the white-tiled stove in the corner was like a mausoleum. The cheap parquet of the floor had a clammy gleam; a tiny icon, roosting high ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon


Words linked to "Dead air" :   pause, suspension, intermission, interruption, break


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