deadline

See also: dead line

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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. 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.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/

NounEdit

deadline (plural deadlines)

1. A date on or before which something must be completed.

   I must make this deadline or my boss will kill me!

2. (archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
3. (archaic) A line that does not move. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. (archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.

TranslationsEdit

date on or before which something must be completed

• Armenian: վերջնաժամկետ (hy) (verǰnažamket)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截止日期 (jiézhǐ rìqī (mainland China) or jiézhǐ rìqí (Taiwan)), 限期 (zh) (xiànqī (mainland China) or xiànqí (Taiwan)), 期限 (zh) (qíxiàn)

• Czech: uzávěrka f, termín (cs) m
• Dutch: termijn (nl) m, deadline (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: tähtaeg
• Finnish: takaraja (fi), määräaika (fi), deadline (fi)
• French: date butoir (fr) f, date limite (fr) f, échéance (fr) f
• Georgian: ბოლო ვადა (bolo vada), ზღვრული ვადა (zɣvruli vada), უკიდურესი ვადა (uḳiduresi vada), საბოლოო ვადა (saboloo vada), დედლაინი (dedlaini) (slang)
• German: Stichtag (de) m, Frist (de) f, Termin (de) m
• Haitian Creole: dat limit
• Hungarian: határidő (hu)
• Indonesian: tenggat waktu, batas waktu
• Italian: scadenza (it) f
• Japanese: 期限 (ja) (きげん, kigen), 締め切り (しめきり, shimekiri), デッドライン (deddorain)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tidsfrist m

  Nynorsk: tidsfrist m

• Polish: nieprzekraczalny termin m
• Portuguese: prazo (pt) m
• Romanian: timp limită
• Russian: кра́йний срок m (krájnij srok), после́дний срок m (poslédnij srok), (jargon) де́длайн (ru) m (dɛ́dlajn), срок (ru) m (srok)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceann-ama m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рок m, термин m

  Roman: rok (sh) m, termin (sh) m

• Spanish: fecha límite f, requisito (es) m, compromiso (es) m
• Swedish: tidsfrist c, deadline (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

VerbEdit

deadline (third-person singular simple present deadlines, present participle deadlining, simple past and past participle deadlined)

1. (military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.

ReferencesEdit

AnagramsEdit

• denailed

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English deadline.

NounEdit

deadline m (plural deadlines, diminutive deadlinetje n)

1. deadline.

   Synonyms: termijn

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English deadline.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈdedlɑi̯n/

NounEdit

deadline

1. (colloquial) deadline

DeclensionEdit

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)
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 deadlineinrare
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
instructive		—	deadlinein
abessive		deadlinetta	deadlineitta
comitative		—	deadlineineen

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.

SynonymsEdit

• kalmanviiva (colloquial)
• kuolemanlinja (colloquial)
• kuolonlinja (colloquial)
• määräaika
• takaraja

Further readingEdit

• deadline in Kielitoimiston sanakirja