different between corollary vs match

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Late Latin cor?ll?rium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, something extra; consequence, deduction”), from cor?lla (“small garland”), diminutive of cor?na (“crown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k????l??i/, /?k???l??i/
• (US) enPR: kôr'?l?r?, IPA^(key): /?k????l??i/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /k???o??l??i/

Noun

corollary (plural corollaries)

1. Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
2. Something which occurs a fortiori, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

   Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.

3. (mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.

   We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

Translations

Adjective

corollary (not comparable)

1. Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
2. (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.

Further reading

• corollary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• corollary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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