Adjust vs Matching - What's the difference?
adjust | matching |
To modify.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To improve or rectify.
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To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
The same as another; sharing the same design.
(graph theory) A set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect: so-called because pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one-to-one.
As verbs the difference between adjust and matching
is that adjust is to modify while matching is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective matching is
the same as another; sharing the same design.As a noun matching is
a set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect: so-called because pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one-to-one.adjust
English
Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
Synonyms
* (to modify something) change, edit, modify, setDerived terms
(terms derived from adjust) * adjustable * adjuster * adjustment * disadjust * misadjust * overadjust * readjustExternal links
* (Adjustment)matching
English
Adjective
- ''A matching set of furniture