all vs dead calm

all

adj
  • All gone; dead. 

adv
  • A quotative particle, compare like. 

  • So much. 

  • Apiece; each. 

  • Wholly; entirely; completely; totally. 

noun
  • Everything that one is capable of. 

  • The totality of one's possessions. 

pron
  • The only thing(s). 

  • Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "who all attended" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.) 

  • Everything. 

  • Everyone. 

det
  • Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable). 

  • Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer). 

  • Only; alone; nothing but. 

dead calm

adj
  • Completely still with no waves and no wind. 

noun
  • The condition of a perfectly flat sea with no waves and no wind. 

How often have the words all and dead calm occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )