n.
- Sports. A race in which two or more contestants compete evenly or finish at the same time.
- A political campaign or other contest that is so close that it is impossible to predict the winner.
dead heat
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A contest in which the competitors are equally matched and neither can win; a tie. For example, The two companies are in a dead heat to get a new personal computer on the market. This term comes from 18th-century British horse racing and is still part of racing terminology. It later was transferred to other kinds of competition.
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IN BRIEF: A race in which two or more competitors finish at the same time; a tie.
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Dead Heat may refer to:
In film and television
- Dead Heat, a 1926 film,
- Dead Heat, a 1988 film starring Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo,
- Dead Heat, a 2002 film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Anthony LaPaglia,
- "Dead Heat," an episode from Murder, She Wrote season two starring Angela Lansbury.
In books
- Dead Heat, a 1984 novel by Linda Barnes.
- Dead Heat, a 2007 novel by Dick Francis.
- Dead Heat, a 2008 novel by Joel C. Rosenberg.
Other:
- dead heat - is a common expression used in horse racing to describe a tie
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