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Matching vs Mitching - What's the difference?

matching | mitching |

As verbs the difference between matching and mitching

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

As nouns the difference between matching and mitching

is that 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 while mitching is pilfering; skulking.

As an adjective matching

is the same as another; sharing the same design.

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

    mitching

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • Pilfering; skulking.
  • Playing truant.
  • *1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 6:
  • *:As soon as she was out of the front gate, my father would say, ‘Come along, son: let's go mitchin' !’ and we'd go out to the shed at the back [...].
  • A pretense of poverty.