Umpire vs Umpirage - What's the difference?
umpire | umpirage |
(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.
(American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side.
(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
(sports) To act as an umpire in a game.
To decide as an umpire; to arbitrate; to settle (a dispute, etc.).
* South
(legal, archaic) The office (or term of office) of an umpire
* 1838 , John Frederick Archbold, The practice of country attornies and their agents, in the courts of law at Westminster
As nouns the difference between umpire and umpirage
is that umpire is (tennis) the official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair while umpirage is (legal|archaic) the office (or term of office) of an umpire.As a verb umpire
is (sports|intransitive) to act as an umpire in a game.umpire
English
(wikipedia umpire)Noun
(en noun)- The umpire called the pitch a strike.
- The umpire must keep on his toes as the play often occurs around him.
Usage notes
* In general, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.Verb
(umpir)- Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.
Synonyms
* refereeumpirage
English
Noun
- When the umpire enters upon his umpirage , he may reexamine the witnesses; but it has been holden not to be objectionable, for the umpire to receive the evidence from the arbitrators, unless the parties require him to do otherwise.
