Umpire vs. Empire

Umpirenoun

(tennis) The official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair.

Umpirenoun

(cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.

Umpirenoun

(baseball) One of usually 4 officials who preside over a baseball game.

Umpirenoun

(American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side.

Umpirenoun

(Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses 3, or in the past 2 or just 1. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are normally not called just umpires alone.

Umpirenoun

(legal) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.

Umpirenoun

(curling) The official who presides over a curling game.

Umpireverb

To act as an umpire in a game.

Umpireverb

(transitive) To decide as an umpire; to arbitrate; to settle (a dispute, etc.).

Umpirenoun

A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed.

Umpirenoun

A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement.

Umpireverb

To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.

Umpireverb

To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game.

Umpireverb

To act as umpire or arbitrator.

Umpirenoun

an official at a baseball game

Umpireverb

be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

Umpirenoun

(in some sports) an official who watches a game or match closely to enforce the rules and arbitrate on matters arising from the play.

Umpirenoun

a person chosen to arbitrate between contending parties.

Umpireverb

act as an umpire in a game or match

Empirenoun

A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.

Empirenoun

A political unit that controls at least one kingdom under its vassalage.

Empirenoun

A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.

Empirenoun

A state ruled by an emperor.

Empirenoun

An expansive and wealthy corporation.

Empireadjective

alternative case form of Empire.

Empirenoun

Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.

Empirenoun

The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.

Empirenoun

Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.

Empirenoun

the domain ruled by an emperor or empress

Empirenoun

a group of countries under a single authority;

Empirenoun

a monarchy with an emperor as head of state

Empirenoun

a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

Empirenoun

an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple

Empirenoun

an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state

Empirenoun

supreme political power over several countries when exercised by a single authority

Empirenoun

absolute control over a person or group.

Empirenoun

a large commercial organization owned or controlled by one person or group

Empirenoun

an extensive sphere of activity controlled by one person or group

Empireadjective

denoting a style of furniture, decoration, or dress fashionable chiefly during the First Empire in France. The decorative style was neoclassical but marked by an interest in Egyptian and other ancient motifs.

Empireadjective

denoting produce from the Commonwealth.

Empire

An empire is a sovereign state made up of several territories and peoples subject to a single ruling authority, often an emperor. A state can become an empire either by a narrow definition through having an emperor and being named as such, or by a broad definition as stated above as an aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities such as the Roman Empire.