Outperform vs Overmatch - What's the difference?
outperform | overmatch |
A match in which one opponent is greatly superior to the other
* 1748 , , An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [http://books.google.com/books?id=aA9XN9zC56oC], 2007 Oxford ed., ΒΆ13:
To match more than intended.
To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish.
To marry to a superior.
As verbs the difference between outperform and overmatch
is that outperform is to perform better than something or someone while overmatch is to match more than intended.As a noun overmatch is
a match in which one opponent is greatly superior to the other.overmatch
English
Noun
(es)- we can increase the velocity of that force, so as to make it an overmatch for its antagonist.
Verb
(es)- The regular expression overmatched , capturing the entire paragraph instead of the specific sentence.
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