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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA: /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/^(Wiktionary)
+ 
  ==Etymology==
− Formed [[af|en|dead|line]].^(Etymonline)^(RHWU) The sense “time limit” is recorded by 1919 in American newspaper jargon, specifically the last moment at which copy could be sent to the printer.^(Etymonline) It was perhaps influenced by an earlier sense (1864): the line in American Civil War prisons that prisoners were forbidden to cross, as at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.^(Etymonline) Wiktionary notes that the evidence for this connection is only indirect,^(Wiktionary) and that earlier uses, according to the OED, refer to lines that do not move, such as in angling.^(Wiktionary)
+ Formed [[af|en|dead|line]].^(Etymonline)^(RHWU)
+ 
+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ A line in a military prison that prisoners could not cross without risk of being shot (1864),^(MW Collegiate)^(Etymonline)^(RHWU) as at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.^(Etymonline) Wiktionary, citing the OED, notes earlier uses for lines that do not move, such as in angling,^(Wiktionary) and Random House dates the compound to 1855–60.^(RHWU)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ The sense “time limit” is recorded by 1919 in American newspaper jargon, specifically the last moment at which copy could be sent to the printer.^(Etymonline) It was perhaps influenced by the prison sense,^(Etymonline) though Wiktionary notes that the evidence for this connection is only indirect.^(Wiktionary) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the word was used in various senses of “absolute limit”, especially an upper age for factory employment.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Timeline==
+ * 1855–60 – Random House's date.^(RHWU)
+ * 1864 – the line in Civil War prisons.^(MW Collegiate)^(Etymonline)
+ * 1919 – “time limit”, in newspaper jargon.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Modern meaning==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A time or date by which something must be done.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)
+ # The time after which copy is not accepted for an issue of a publication.^(MW Collegiate)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(historical)'' A line around a prison that prisoners crossed at the risk of being shot.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ===Verb===
+ # To govern by setting a time limit.^(AHD)
+ # ''(military)'' To declare equipment unfit for service; to ground an aircraft.^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[postdeadline]]
  
  ==References==