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单词 shoot off a tie
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to shoot off a tie
e. quasi-transitive. to shoot a match: to engage in a shooting-match. Also to shoot off a tie: to decide a tie in a shooting-match by a supplementary contest.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > shoot competitively [verb (intransitive)]
shootc1275
to shoot a match1840
to shoot off a tie1840
1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §2763 Captain R. and Mr. S. then shot the tie off.
1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §2763 Two matches were then shot by Capt. Ross and Mr. Osbaldeston.
1859 ‘Stonehenge’ Shot-gun ii. 7 Lord Huntingfield,..and Mr. Bateson having repeatedly shot matches at Hornsey Wood House.
1861 Temple Bar 3 266 This target was chosen for shooting off the ties at the long distances.
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to shoot off a tie
a. Equality between two or more competitors or the sides in a match or contest; a match in which this occurs, a drawn match; a dead heat. Hence, to play off a tie, to shoot off a tie, etc., to resolve or determine a tie, by playing another match.In cricket used specifically to denote a match in which the scores are level after both teams have completed their innings, as opposed to a draw in which the scheduled playing time elapses without either team having won (see draw n. 19b). In other sporting contexts draw is now the more usual term in British, Irish, Australian, and New Zealand English for a match which finishes with the scores level.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > draw or tie
tie1680
patt1735
love1742
tie game1742
game and game1745
draw1823
standoff1842
split1967
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > rivalry or vying > equality between sides
tie1680
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition > viewed in terms of equality of parties > equality in a contest
tie1736
level pegging1927
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xv. 93 If each win a trick and the third tyed, neither win, because it is trick and tye.
1736 London Evening-post 2 Sept. The great Match at Single Wicket... The Country got but six,..which made it a Tye.
1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. iii. 73 To see the ties shot off of the great pigeon match.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. viii. iii. 206 The Government count on the seat, though with the new Registration 'tis nearly a tie.
1881 T. Hardy Laodicean II. ii. vi. 24 We are bracketed—it's a tie. The judges say there is no choice between the designs.
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