dead heat

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Irine	-	Georgian
Cvijeta	TSVEE-e-tah	Croatian, Serbian
Galen	['geilən]
Utari	oo-TAH-ree	Indonesian, Javanese
Helladius	-	Late Greek (Latinized)
Agness	['ægnis]