Paired vs Matched - What's the difference?
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(pair)
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
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Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale tantum)
A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
(cards) A poker hand that contains of two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
(cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
(baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
(baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
(slang) A pair of breasts
(Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
(archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
* Charles Dickens
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair'', ''sliding pair'', ''twisting pair .
To group into sets of two.
* Alexander Pope
To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
(politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
* Rowe
(computing) to form wireless connection between to devices
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(match)
(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.
As verbs the difference between paired and matched
is that paired is (pair) while matched is (match).paired
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*pair
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) paire, from (etyl) .Noun
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- There were two pairs on the final vote.
- plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs
- Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.
Synonyms
* two objects in a group: duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet * (pair of breasts) See alsoDerived terms
* on a pair * grow a pair * in pairs * king pair * pair-horse * pair-oar(ed) * pair production * pair skating * royal pair * strap on a pairVerb
(en verb)- Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
- The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
- My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
- If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.
Derived terms
* pairing * pair off * pair upEtymology 2
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----matched
English
Verb
(head)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
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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.