Match vs Peer - What's the difference?
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(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
* Drayton
* Dryden
Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
* Addison
A marriage.
A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
* Clarendon
Suitability.
Equivalence; a state of correspondence. (rfex)
Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
* Shakespeare
A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
An agreement or compact.
* Shakespeare
* Boyle
(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.
(lb) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
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(lb) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
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*: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.
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, title= (lb) To equal or exceed in achievement.
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(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.
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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.
To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
* Shakespeare
* Coleridge
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
to come in sight; to appear.
* Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
* Dryden
* Isaac Taylor
# Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
* Milton
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
* Spenser
to make equal in rank.
(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
Match is a synonym of peer.
As nouns the difference between match and peer
is that match is match while peer is .match
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) macche, from (etyl)Noun
(es)- My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
- many a warlike match
- A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
- He knew he had met his match .
- Government makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
- She was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
- It were no match , your nail against his horn.
- The carpet and curtains are a match .
- Thy hand upon that match .
- Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
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 matchVerb
(es)F. E. Penny
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.}}
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.}}
Derived terms
* match drill * matcher * matchup * matchy * * overmatch * unmatchSee also
* mateEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(es)- He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
Synonyms
* spunkDerived terms
* fireplace match * matchbook, matchbox, matchlock * matchgirl * phosphorus match * quick match * safety match * slow match * strike-anywhere match * sulfur match * sulphur matchSee also
* fire, lighter, cigarette lighter * strike (to strike a match)peer
English
(wikipedia peer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads
- as if through a dungeon grate he peered
- He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
- He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
- So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
- See how his gorget peers above his gown!
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman peir , (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In song he never had his peer .
- Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers ?
- a peer of the realm
- a noble peer of mickle trust and power
- He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
Verb
(en verb)- (Heylin)