Match vs Race - 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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, chapter=4, title= (lb) To make a successful match or pairing.
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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.
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race , and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
A progressive movement toward a goal.
A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
* Francis Bacon
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
* Milton
Travels, runs, or journeys. (rfex)
The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
To compete against in such a race.
To move or drive at high speed.
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, title= Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
* 1891 (December) (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Man with the Twisted Lip :
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common heritage or characteristics:
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
#* 1913', Martin Van Buren Knox, ''The religious life of the Anglo-Saxon '''race
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
# (controversial usage) One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on .
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# A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage .
#* 1898 , Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology , page 15)
(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; (an informal term for) a subspecies.
A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary science).
Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Characteristic quality or disposition.
* Shakespeare
* Sir W. Temple
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
* 1842 , Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual , page 433:
In intransitive terms the difference between match and race
is that match is to agree, to be equal, to correspond to while race is of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.In transitive terms the difference between match and race
is that match is to equal or exceed in achievement while race is to compete against in such a race.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)race
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) and (etyl) (m).Noun
(racing)- The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
- We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
- After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race .
- The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
- My race' of glory run, and ' race of shame.
Derived terms
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(rac)Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
- "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin. According to philologist Gianfranco Contini,Devoto, Giacomo, Avviamento all'etimologia italiana , Mondadori. the Italian word comes from (etyl) (m) . Some authorities suggest derivation from (etyl) (m), (m), from earlier (m), . This, however, is difficult to support, since Italian (m) predates the Spanish word.Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." Another possible source is (etyl) . A fourth possibility is that the Italian razza'' derives from (etyl) ratio through an unattested intermediate form *''razzo .Noun
(wikipedia race)- Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race'. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by ' race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
- The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race .
- A treaty was concluded between the race''' of elves and the '''race of men.
- There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]
- For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.
- The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
- Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.
- a race of heaven
- Is it [the wine] of the right race ?
- And now I give my sensual race the rein.
- Some great race of fancy or judgment.
Synonyms
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(Terms derived from the noun "race") * * * * * *Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.