(transitive, card games) To deal cards to someone entering a game; to enter someone into a game by dealing cards to that person. / (transitive) To trade (buy and sell) a named commodity.

(idiomatic) Large number, amount, or extent. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see great, deal.

The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

plural of deaf-mute

plural of death panel

(slang, colloquial, Canada, US, television, dated) a direct-to-home satellite television satellite (used by the cable television provider industry, to describe their competitors and the effect they would have in decimating the cable industry, prior to the introduction of digital satellite television and the three-foot dish revolution)

(biology) The breakdown of the structure of a cell after completion of a number of cell divisions.

(idiomatic) To attempt to persuade a party that does not wish to listen or cannot be altered in its conviction.

(chiefly in similes) A person who appears pale or sickly.

(obsolete) The volume of the conducting airways of the lung. This definition became inadequate once the alveolar dead space was described.