Dead Heat

  

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Dead Heat

Definition: Dead Heat

Dead Heat

Noun

1. A tie in a race.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Dead Heat

DomainDefinition

Literature

Dead Heat A race to be run again between two horses that have "tied." A heat is that part of a race run without stopping. One, two, or more heats make a race. A dead heat is a heat which goes for nothing. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Dead Heat

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Equality

Equalization, equation; equilibration, coordination, adjustment, readjustment. drawn game, drawn battle; neck and neck race; tie, draw, standoff, dead heat.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Dead Heat

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Dead Heat (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dead Heat

DomainTitle

Books

  • Doris Fein: Dead Heat at Long Beach (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dead Heat

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dead heat

10

dead heat movie

2

dead heat on a merrygoround movie

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dead Heat

Language Translations for "dead heat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

finish i njëkohshëm. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تعادل (balance, draw, drawn, equality, equalize, neutralize, symmetry, tie), ‏سباق التعادل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

състезание с равен резултат. (various references)

   

Czech

  

mrtvý závod. (various references)

   

French

  

arrivée ex-aequo. (various references)

   

German

  

totes rennen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ισοπαλία (draw). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

holtverseny (draw, it is pull devil pull baker, tie). (various references)

   

Italian

  

gara che si chiude in parit . (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

デジタル通信 (copy editor, dead, dead copy, dead end, dead stock, dead time, deadline, deadlock, death, death education, death mask, debug, debugger, debugging, deck, deck chair, dedicate, dedication, deduction, de-escalate, de-escalation, Denebola, denier, denim, denomination, denotation, denotational, department, department store, departure, description, desk, desk plan, desk work, desk-top, desperate, desperate struggle, despotism, destination, destroyer, detached coat, detail, detector, detente, deterrent gap, Detroit, devaluation, device, digital communication, distributor cap, divider, fight to a finish, hit a batter by pitching a ball, rough sketch, to eat at Denny's). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

デッド'ート . (various references)

   

Manx

  

dreays corrym. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadday eathay

   

Portuguese

  

calor de matar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

probã de alergare. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

равенство очков, ничья (draw, stand off, standoff, stand-off, tie). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mrtva trka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

igualdad (coolness, draw, equability, equality, equalization, evenness, par, parity, sameness, smoothness), empate (draw, equality of votes, joint). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dött lopp. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

berabere biten yarış. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dead Heat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-h-t"

-2 letters: headed, heated.

-3 letters: aahed, ahead, dated, death, haded, hated.

-4 letters: dada, data, date, dead, deed, deet, eath, hade, haed, haet, hate, head, heat, heed, teed, thae, thee.

-5 letters: aah, add, aha, ate, dad, dah, dee, eat, edh, eta, eth, had, hae, hat, het, tad, tae, tea, ted, tee, the.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-h-t"
 

+1 letter: fatheaded.

 

+2 letters: mastheaded.

 

+3 letters: fatheadedly, hardhearted.

 

+4 letters: acetaldehyde.

 

+5 letters: acetaldehydes, fatheadedness, featherheaded, grandfathered, hardheartedly, headquartered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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