Umpire vs. Empire

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

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

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

Example: ‘The umpire called the pitch a strike.’;

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

Example: ‘The umpire must keep on his toes as the play often occurs around him.’;

(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.

(legal) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.

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

To act as an umpire in a game.

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

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.

Example: ‘A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others.’;

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

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

Example: ‘Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.’;

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

To act as umpire or arbitrator.

an official at a baseball game

be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

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

a person chosen to arbitrate between contending parties.

act as an umpire in a game or match

Example: ‘he could be seen regularly umpiring for the club’; ‘he umpired the World Cup final’;

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

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

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

A state ruled by an emperor.

Example: ‘The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.’;

An expansive and wealthy corporation.

Example: ‘the McDonald's fast food empire’;

alternative case form of Empire.

Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.

Example: ‘Over hell extendHis empire, and with iron scepter rule.’;

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.

Example: ‘Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and complicated government.’;

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

Example: ‘Another force which, in the Middle Ages, shared with chivalry the empire over the minds of men.’;

the domain ruled by an emperor or empress

a group of countries under a single authority;

Example: ‘the British empire’;

a monarchy with an emperor as head of state

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

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

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

Example: ‘the Roman Empire’;

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

Example: ‘he encouraged the Greeks in their dream of empire in Asia Minor’;

absolute control over a person or group.

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

Example: ‘her business empire grew’;

an extensive sphere of activity controlled by one person or group

Example: ‘each ministry, each department had its own empire, its own agenda and worked to protect its turf’;

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.

denoting produce from the Commonwealth.

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.