Definition of "umpire"

umpire

/ˈʌm.paɪ.ə(ɹ)/

noun
plural umpires
1. (tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.
2. (cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
3. (baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.
4. (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.
5. (Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses three; in the past there were two or just one. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.
6. (law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
  Quotations
  You for their umpire and their ſynod take, / And their appeal alone to Cæſar make.
  a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “To His Sacred Majesty. A Panegyric on his Coronation.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, page 34
7. (curling) The official who presides over a curling game.
verb
third-person singular simple present umpires, present participle umpiring, simple past and past participle umpired
1. (sports, intransitive) To act as an umpire in a game.
2. (transitive) To decide as an umpire.
  Quotations
  Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.
  1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727

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umpire

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