Definition of Dead heat

1. Noun. A tie in a race.

Generic synonyms: Draw, Standoff, Tie

Definition of Dead heat

1. Noun. (idiomatic) a close race or contest in which no winner is apparent ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead Heat

dead code
dead donkey
dead donkeys
dead drop
dead duck
dead ducks
dead end
dead ends
dead fingers
dead first
dead foetus syndrome
dead furrow
dead giveaway
dead hand
dead hand of the past
dead heat (current term)
dead heats
dead horse
dead ice
dead in the water
dead key
dead keys
dead language
dead languages
dead last
dead leg
dead letter
dead letter office
dead line
dead link

Literary usage of Dead heat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Horse by William Youatt, John Stuart Skinner (1843)
"A distanced horse in a dead heat shall not be allowed to start again in the ... When a dead heat is made, all the horses not distanced in the dead heat, ..."

2. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"A distanced horse in a dead heat shall not start again. ART. XVII. RELATIVE TO HEATS.—A horse not winning one heat in three shall not start for a fourth ..."

3. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1830)
"121b... 0212 (Shepherd) 3131 Mr. Parson's bc by Frolic, 4 ум old, 8st. 21b 03} The first a dead heat between Young Duches« and ..."

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