Precede vs Overmatch - What's the difference?
precede | overmatch |
To go before, go in front of.
* Milton
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
* Kent
To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
(en-noun) Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
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 precede and overmatch
is that precede is 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.precede
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(preced)- Harm precedes not sin.
- It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with proceed.Noun
Antonyms
* (go before) succeedAnagrams
* ----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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