different between match vs rivalry
match
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)
- (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.
- 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.
- 1603, Michael Drayton. The Barons' Wars
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
- He knew he had met his match.
- A marriage.
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
- Suitability.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- The carpet and curtains are a match.
- 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.
- 1660 (first published), Robert Boyle, Seraphic Love
- (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)
- (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- (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.
- (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
- (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
- (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.
- A senator of Rome survived,
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1:
- 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)
- 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)
- (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)
- match (sports event)
- horserace (involving only two horses)
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
match
- imperative of matche
Spanish
Noun
match m (plural matches)
- match (sporting event)
Swedish
Noun
match c
- match
Declension
match From the web:
- what matches with grey
- what matcha does starbucks use
- what matches with green
- what matches with red
- what matches with purple
- what matches with blue
- what matches with brown
- what matches with yellow
rivalry
English
Etymology
rival +? -ry?
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /??a?.v?l.?i/
Noun
rivalry (countable and uncountable, plural rivalries)
- An ongoing relationship between (usually two) rivals who compete for superiority.
- The Boston Bruins have a longstanding rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens.
- James and Polly have a bitter rivalry due to the latter's inclusion in the Tea Time Teaser.
- (economics) The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time.
- Any competition between two or more things or factors.
- Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye.
Translations
rivalry From the web:
- what rivalry means
- what rivalry i win all the matches
- what rivalry is the game
- what rivalry was an underlying cause of ww1
- what's rivalry week
- what rivalry caused the most fights
- rivalry what type of noun
- rivalry what does it means
you may also like
- match vs rivalry
- coincide vs tally
- husky vs guttural
- rising vs knob
- persistent vs inexhaustible
- fetch vs ship
- device vs outfit
- cruel vs bad
- trim vs abridge
- muck vs quagmire
- bore vs torment
- pattern vs fabricate
- enraged vs mad
- description vs strain
- nurture vs grub
- obscure vs baffling
- unsound vs strengthless
- magnetic vs congenial
- gentle vs individual
- grace vs symmetry