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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



... not penetrated. On the range the cattle bellowed in their thirst-torture; in the intervals of their cries sounded something far off, but regular as the thumping of a ship's screw. The woman did not need an answer to her question. The steady trampling of hoofs came muffled through the dead air, but the sound was unmistakable. She put her arms about the man's neck and crushed him to her with all her woman strength. "Oh, Jim, you've been a good man ...
— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning


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


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