Qualify vs Match - What's the difference?
qualify | match |
To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
* Macaulay
To certify or license someone for something.
To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
*1598 , Shakespeare,
*:O! never say that I was false of heart,
*:Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
(juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
(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 nouns the difference between qualify and match
is that qualify is (juggling) an instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice while match is match.As a verb qualify
is to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.qualify
English
Verb
- He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
- he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde , / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.
- It hath no larynx to qualify the sound.
Antonyms
* unqualifyNoun
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
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
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.