different between accord vs match

English

Etymology

• First attested in the late 13th century.
• From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accord?, accord?re (“to be heart to heart with”), formed from Latin ad + cor (“heart”).
• The verb is first attested in early 12th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)

1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
   • 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14

     These all continued with one accord in prayer.
2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.

4. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
5. (international law) An international agreement.

6. (obsolete) Assent
7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

Synonyms

• (concurrence of opinion): consent, assent
• (international agreement): treaty

Derived terms

• of one's own accord
• with one accord

Related terms

• chord

Translations

Verb

accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)

1. (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
2. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
5. (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
7. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.

Translations

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Deverbal of accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.k??/

Noun

accord m (plural accords)

1. chord
2. agreement
3. permission, consent

Derived terms

• accord parfait
• accorder
• d'accord
• d'un commun accord
• désaccord

Descendants

• ? Danish: akkord
• ? German: Akkord
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: akkord
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: akkord

Further reading

• “accord” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cocard

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

accord m (plural accords)

1. (Jersey) agreement

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæt??/
• Rhymes: -æt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English matche, metche, macche, mecche, mache, meche, from Old English mæ??a, ?emæ??a, secondary forms of Old English maca, ?emaca (“companion, mate, wife, one suited to another”), from Proto-Germanic *makkô, *gamakkô, *makô, *gamakô (“an equal; comrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, work”). Cognate with Danish mage (“mate”), Icelandic maki (“spouse”).

Noun

match (plural matches)

1. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

   My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

2. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
   • 1603, Michael Drayton. The Barons' Wars

     many a warlike match

   • A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

3. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

   He knew he had met his match.
4. A marriage.
5. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

   • She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.

6. Suitability.
7. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
8. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
9. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

   The carpet and curtains are a match.

10. An agreement or compact.
    • 1660 (first published), Robert Boyle, Seraphic Love

      Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.

11. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• competition
• game
• set
• tournament

Verb

match (third-person singular simple present matches, present participle matching, simple past and past participle matched)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.

2. (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.

   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
3. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
4. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.

5. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1:

     […] Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

   • A senator of Rome survived,
     Would not have matched his daughter with a king.

6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mate

Etymology 2

From Middle English macche, mecche, from Old French mesche, meische, from Vulgar Latin micca (compare Catalan metxa, Spanish mecha, Italian miccia), which in turn is probably from Latin myxa (“nozzle, curved part of a lamp”), from Ancient Greek ???? (múxa, “lamp wick”).

Noun

match (plural matches)

2. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

   Synonym: spunk (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• fire, lighter, cigarette lighter
• strike (to strike a match)

French

Etymology

From English match.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat?/

Noun

match m (plural matchs)

1. (sports) match, game

Usage notes

Sometimes translated as rencontre (sportive).

Derived terms

• match nul
• Paris Match

Further reading

• “match” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English match.

Noun

match m (invariable)

1. match (sports event)
2. horserace (involving only two horses)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

match

1. imperative of matche

Spanish

Noun

match m (plural matches)

1. match (sporting event)

Swedish

Noun

match c

1. match

Declension