Dead Air

One thing that the site does not seem to be able to track in dead-air calls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brewer's inability to, you know -- introduce herself, thank the debate sponsors, and welcome viewers at home -- hit a snag when her train of thought derailed, leaving dead-air gaps that rival any of the ones on the Arizona-Mexico border. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When he fails, a dead-air mood falls over Late Night, and we find ourselves in public-access hell. ❋ Windolf, Jim (2008)

I love this recent spate of dead-air glitch production that's coming out of the woodwork. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Myspace and email in general help you stay connected without the dead-air you may have on the phone. ❋ Karyn (2006)

The familiar dead-air feeling of dampers closed over Del like water over a drowned man's head, oddly peaceful. ❋ Saintcrow, Lilith (2005)

The dead-air silence between them seemed, for a moment, wintry and vast. ❋ John Dalton (2004)

To say that we all sat in that smoky, dead-air room stunned would be a gross understatement. ❋ Marcinko, Richard (1992)

This keeps it from being frozen in winter and from being overheated in summer, just as a dead-air space in the walls of a building protects from extremes of heat and cold. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The air in the bark cells being in a still condition is a non-conductor of heat, and layer of bark overlapping layer, the cambium is completely covered with a dead-air blanket. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The houses would be of diamond-sawed stone, thick-walled, with dead-air spaces between the double walls to insulate against heat and cold. ❋ Tom Godwin (1947)

Or, better still, for the few earliest frames, have double-glass sash, the dead-air space making further protection unnecessary. ❋ Unknown (1930)

On such occasions it appeared that the gale was impelled to blow straight out from the plateau slopes over a lower stratum of dead-air. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)

All I did was trim the dead-air portion at the beginning of the recording and (because of time constraints on the video server) the last few minutes of the session when most of the council members walked out. ❋ Unknown (2010)