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dead heat

n.
1. Sports A race in which two or more contestants compete evenly or finish at the same time.
2. A political campaign or other contest that is so close that it is impossible to predict the winner.
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dead heat

n
(Individual Sports, other than specified)
a. a race or contest in which two or more participants tie for first place
b. a tie between two or more contestants in any position
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dead′ heat′


n.
a race in which two or more competitors finish in a tie.
[1790–1800]
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dead heat

- If two horses tied in a heat, the heat did not count and was called "dead"; now any tie can be called a dead heat.
See also related terms for tie.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.dead heat - a tie in a race
standoff, draw, tie - the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided; "the game ended in a draw"; "their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie"
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dead heat

noun
An equality of scores, votes, or performances in a contest:
deadlock, draw, stalemate, standoff, tie.
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Translations
وُصول المُتَسابِقين في نَفس اللحْظَه
mrtvý závodnerozhodný výsledek/běh
dødt løb
jafntefli í hlaupi
nerozhodný zápas
başa baş yarışberabare kalınan yarış

dead heat

n (Sport) it was a dead heat → è stata una vittoria a pari merito
to finish in a dead heat → finire alla pari
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

dead

(ded) adjective
1. without life; not living. a dead body; Throw out those dead flowers.
2. not working and not giving any sign of being about to work. The phone/engine is dead.
3. absolute or complete. There was dead silence at his words; He came to a dead stop.
adverb
completely. dead drunk.
ˈdeaden verb
to lessen, weaken or make less sharp, strong etc. That will deaden the pain.
ˈdeadly adjective
1. causing death. a deadly poison.
2. very great. He is in deadly earnest (= He is completely serious).
3. very dull or uninteresting. What a deadly job this is.
adverb
extremely. deadly dull; deadly serious.
dead end
a road closed off at one end.
ˈdead-end adjective
leading nowhere. a dead-end job.
dead heat
a race, or a situation happening in a race, in which two or more competitors cross the finishing line together.
dead language
a language no longer spoken, eg Latin.
ˈdeadline noun
a time by which something must be done or finished. Monday is the deadline for handing in this essay.
ˈdeadlock noun
a situation in which no further progress towards an agreement is possible. Talks between the two sides ended in deadlock.
to set a deadline (not dateline) for finishing a job.
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The slope eased off, at length we could be detached, and Croz and I, dashed away, ran a neck-and-neck race, which ended in a dead heat. At 1:40 P.M., the world was at our feet, and the Matterhorn was conquered!
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The boys huddled them- selves together and sought the friendly companionship of the fire, though the dull dead heat of the breathless atmosphere was stifling.
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Diomed would have now passed him, or there would have been a dead heat, but Phoebus Apollo to spite him made him drop his whip.
He had soon caught him up again, for Agamemnon's mare Aethe kept pulling stronger and stronger, so that if the course had been longer he would have passed him, and there would not even have been a dead heat. Idomeneus's brave squire Meriones was about a spear's cast behind Menelaus.
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However, at the recent Tredegar Farmers Hunt Point-To-Point Steeplechases at Lower Machen, the judge Peter Thomas, a former point-to-point rider himself, declared the Tredegar Farmers Ladies Open Race a dead heat between the front-running PatrickTom Boru partnered by Jodie Hughes and the fast-finishing and oddly named Hospital ridden by Elen Nicholas.
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THE judge couldn't split 5-1 favourite Son Of Rest and 28-1 outsider Baron Bolt as a dead heat was declared for the first time in Ayr Gold Cup history.
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Referee Stuart Wilson from Workington declared a dead heat, though the decision proved a talking point for fans of both teams for the rest of the night.
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NATIONAL newspaper the Daily Mirror recently reported that at London's Wimbledon greyhound track three dogs - Murlens Houdini, Lightening Speed and Tinas Luke - racing in the third heat of the John White Christmas Cracker race crossed the line at the exact same time, causing a triple dead heat.
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The dog racing triple dead heat saw the noses of Murlens Houdini, Lightning Speed and Tinas Luke all finish the race within one-hundredth of a second of each other.
TRIPLE DEAD HEAT; 3 greyhounds tie race in 30m-to-one chance

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