Overmatch vs Overwatch - What's the difference?
overmatch | overwatch |
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., ¶13:
To match more than intended.
To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish.
To marry to a superior.
To watch over.
(military) The supervision of one unit or vehicle by another while the supervised unit is firing or moving.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 11, author=Michael R. Gordon, title=Petraeus Sees Bigger Role in Protecting Iraqi Civilians, work=New York Times
, passage=At a further and undefined point in the future, the American force would shrink to about seven and later five brigades — all involved in overwatch missions. }}
As nouns the difference between overmatch and overwatch
is that overmatch is a match in which one opponent is greatly superior to the other while overwatch is the supervision of one unit or vehicle by another while the supervised unit is firing or moving.As verbs the difference between overmatch and overwatch
is that overmatch is to match more than intended while overwatch is to watch over.overmatch
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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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Antonyms
*undermatchoverwatch
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