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As nouns the difference between match and link

is that match is (sports) a competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match or match can be 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 while link is a connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas or link can be (obsolete) a torch, used to light dark streets.

As verbs the difference between match and link

is that match is (lb) to agree, to be equal, to correspond to while link is to connect two or more things or link can be (scotland) to skip or trip along smartly.

match

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) macche, from (etyl)

Noun

(es)
  • (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.
  • * Drayton
    • many a warlike match
  • * Dryden
    • A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
  • Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
    • He knew he had met his match .
  • * Addison
    • Government makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
  • A marriage.
  • A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
  • * Clarendon
    • She was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
  • Suitability.
  • Equivalence; a state of correspondence. (rfex)
  • Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It were no match , your nail against his horn.
  • A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
    • The carpet and curtains are a match .
  • An agreement or compact.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thy hand upon that match .
  • * Boyle
    • Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
  • (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
    * cage match * first class match * friendly match * grudge match * * love match * Man of the Match/man of the match * match fixing * match made in heaven * match made in hell * matchless * matchmaker * match play/matchplay * matchplayer * match point * match referee * * one-day match * overmatch * post-match * rubber match * shouting match * slanging match * steel cage match * Test match * tour match * whole shitting match * whole shooting match

    Verb

    (es)
  • (lb) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
  • :
  • :
  • (lb) To agree, to be equal, 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.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
  • (lb) To make a successful match or pairing.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
  • (lb) To equal or exceed in achievement.
  • :
  • (lb) To unite in marriage, to mate.
  • *1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
  • *:Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
  • *(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • *:A senator of Rome survived, / Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
  • To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
  • :
    • Derived terms
    * match drill * matcher * matchup * matchy * * overmatch * unmatch
    See also
    * mate

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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.
    • He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
    Synonyms
    * spunk
    Derived terms
    * fireplace match * matchbook, matchbox, matchlock * matchgirl * phosphorus match * quick match * safety match * slow match * strike-anywhere match * sulfur match * sulphur match
    See also
    * fire, lighter, cigarette lighter * strike (to strike a match)

    link

    English

    (link)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl). Used in English since the 14th century.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
    • The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
  • * Cowper
    • The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.
  • * Gascoigne
    • And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
  • One element of a chain or other connected series.
    • The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
    The weakest link .
    • The link on the page points to the sports scores.
  • (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
    • A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
  • (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
  • (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
  • * 2008 , Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex
    • They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link ," and lined with heath or straw.
  • (figurative) an individual person or element in a
  • * 2010 , James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry , AuthorHouse, page 32:
    • But know that God is the strongest link .
  • * 2010 , William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design , RockPort, page 262:
    • The fuse is the weakest link' in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable ' link in the system.
  • * 2010 , Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis , AuthorHouse, page 219:
    • . This is so that nobody can change the way every link must talk about the formula that I taught to make a real Chain of Universal Love and not a Chain of Love of a group or sect. ”
  • Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
    • a link of horsehair
    (Mortimer)
  • (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
  • (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
  • (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
  • (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
    • Holonyms
    * chain
    Derived terms
    *(connection) cufflink, hyperlink, linkage, link farm, missing link *(element of a chain) sausage link * link-up * chainlink

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To connect two or more things.
  • * Eustace
    • All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
  • (of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
    • My homepage links to my wife's.
  • (Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
    • Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
  • (Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
    • Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
  • To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
    • Derived terms
    * link up

    Etymology 2

    Plausibly a modification of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
  • *1854 , Dickens, Hard Times , Chapter 7:
  • *:You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn’t a penny to buy a link to light you.’
  • * 1883 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
    • "Give me a loan of the link , Dick."
    (Shakespeare)
    Derived terms
    * linkboy * linkman

    Etymology 3

    Origin unknown.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To skip or trip along smartly.

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