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Booking vs Matching - What's the difference?

booking | matching |

As verbs the difference between booking and matching

is that booking is present participle of lang=en while matching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between booking and matching

is that booking is the act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting while 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.

As an adjective matching is

the same as another; sharing the same design.

booking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
  • A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.
  • The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
  • (sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
  • (legal) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following arrest.

    • Derived terms

    * booking clerk * booking office

    See also

    * inscription

    matching

    English

    Adjective

  • The same as another; sharing the same design.
    • ''A matching set of furniture

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Related terms

    * matching number * matching theorem * maximum matching * perfect matching