Match vs. Meet — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Match and Meet
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Match
A match is a tool for starting a fire. Typically, matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper.
Meet
To come into the presence of by chance or arrangement
I was surprised to meet an old friend in the park. I met a friend for coffee.
Match
One that is exactly like another or a counterpart to another
Is there a match for this glove in the drawer?.
Meet
To come into the company of
I met my colleagues for a meeting.
Match
One that is like another in one or more specified qualities
He is John's match for bravery.
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Meet
To be introduced to; make the acquaintance of
Have you met my wife?.
Match
One that is able to compete equally with another
The boxer had met his match.
Meet
To come together or confront in opposition
The rival teams meet next week.
Match
One that closely resembles or harmonizes with another
The napkins were a nice match for the tablecloth.
Meet
To be present at the arrival of
Met the train.
Match
A pair, each one of which resembles or harmonizes with the other
The colors were a close match.
Meet
To come into conjunction with; join or touch
Where the road meets the highway.
Match
A game or contest in which two or more persons, animals, or teams oppose and compete with each other
A soccer match.
Meet
To come into conformity with the views, wishes, or opinions of
The firm has done its best to meet us on that point.
Match
A tennis contest won by the player or side that wins a specified number of sets, usually two out of three or three out of five.
Meet
To come to the notice of (the senses)
There is more here than meets the eye.
Match
A marriage or an arrangement of marriage
A royal match.
Meet
To experience or undergo
He met his fate with courage. The project has met a setback.
Match
A person viewed as a prospective marriage partner.
Meet
To be sufficient for (a need, for example); fulfill
Meet all the conditions in the contract.
Match
A narrow piece of material, usually wood or cardboard, coated on one end with a compound that ignites when scratched against a rough or chemically treated surface.
Meet
To deal or contend with effectively
We can meet each problem as it arises.
Match
An easily ignited cord or wick, formerly used to detonate powder charges or to fire cannons and muzzle-loading firearms.
Meet
To pay; settle
Enough money to meet expenses.
Match
To be like (another) or be a counterpart to
Does this sock match that one?.
Meet
To come together
Didn't recognize him when we met. Where should we meet for lunch?.
Match
To resemble or harmonize with
The coat matches the dress.
Meet
To come into conjunction; be joined
The two pipes meet in the corner.
Match
To adapt or suit so that a balanced or harmonious result is achieved; cause to correspond
You should match your deeds to your beliefs.
Meet
To come together as opponents; contend
The team met with its rival.
Match
To find or produce a counterpart to
It's difficult to match the color of old paint.
Meet
To become introduced
Where did the two of you meet?.
Match
To pair (someone) with another in a romantic relationship or marriage
She was hoping to match her cousin with her neighbor.
Meet
To assemble
Protesters met in the square.
Match
To place in opposition or competition; pit
She matched her skill against all comers.
Meet
To occur together, especially in one person or entity
Suspense and intrigue meet in this new movie.
Match
To provide with an adversary or competitor
The tournament matches the best offensive team with the best defensive team.
Meet
A meeting or contest, especially an athletic competition.
Match
To do as well as or better than in competition; equal
She easily matches me in bicycle racing.
Meet
Fitting; proper
"It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place" (Shakespeare).
Match
To set in comparison; compare
Beauty that could never be matched.
Meet
To make contact (with) while in proximity.
Match
To provide funds so as to equal or complement
The government will match all private donations to the museum.
Meet
To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
Match
To flip or toss (coins) and compare the sides that land face up.
Meet
To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
Match
To couple (electric circuits) by means of a transformer.
Meet
To get acquainted with someone.
I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!
Match
To be exactly like another; correspond exactly
Do the two socks match?.
Meet
(Of groups) To come together.
Match
To harmonize with another
My shirt and my tie match.
Meet
To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
Match
(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
Meet
To come together in conflict.
Match
Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
Meet
(sports) To play a match.
England and Holland will meet in the final.
Match
Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
He knew he had met his match.
Meet
To make physical or perceptual contact.
Match
A marriage.
Meet
To converge and finally touch or intersect.
The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
Match
A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
Meet
To touch or hit something while moving.
The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
Match
Suitability.
Meet
To adjoin, be physically touching.
The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
Match
Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
Meet
(transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
Match
Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
Meet
To satisfy; to comply with.
This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
Match
A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
The carpet and curtains are a match.
A match made in heaven
Meet
(intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
Match
An agreement or compact.
Meet
To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
Match
(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.
Meet
To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
Match
A 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.
He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
Meet
(sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
Track meet
Swim meet
Match
(intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
Meet
(hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
Match
(transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
His interests didn't match her interests.
Meet
(rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
Match
(transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
Meet
(informal) A meeting.
OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
Match
(transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
Meet
(algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
Match
(obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
Meet
(archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
Match
To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
To match boards
Meet
To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
Match
(programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.
Meet
To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
Match
Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood or cardboard dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
Meet
To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.
His daughter came out to meet him.
Match
A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
Government . . . makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
Meet
To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate.
Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst,Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
Match
A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
Meet
To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand.
Match
A matrimonial union; a marriage.
Meet
To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.
O, when meet nowSuch pairs in love and mutual honor joined !
Match
An agreement, compact, etc.
Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
Meet
To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.
Weapons more violent, when next we meet,May serve to better us and worse our foes.
Match
A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
Meet
To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.
They . . . appointed a day to meet together.
Match
Equality of conditions in contest or competition, or one who provides equal competition to another in a contest; as, he had no match as a swordsman within the city.
It were no match, your nail against his horn.
Meet
To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.
We met with many things worthy of observation.
Prepare to meet with more than brutal furyFrom the fierce prince.
Match
Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
Meet
An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.
Match
A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.
Meet
Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.
It was meet that we should make merry.
Match
To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
No settled senses of the world can matchThe pleasure of that madness.
Meet
Meetly.
Match
To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.
No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct.
Meet
A meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
Match
To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
Eternal mightTo match with their inventions they presumedSo easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.
Meet
Come together;
I'll probably see you at the meeting
How nice to see you again!
Match
To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.
Meet
Get together socially or for a specific purpose
Match
To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
Let poets match their subject to their strength.
Meet
Be adjacent or come together;
The lines converge at this point
Match
To marry; to give in marriage.
A senator of Rome survived,Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
Meet
Fill or meet a want or need
Match
To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
Meet
Satisfy a condition or restriction;
Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?
Match
To be united in marriage; to mate.
I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep.
Meet
Satisfy or fulfill;
Meet a need
This job doesn't match my dreams
Match
To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
Meet
Get to know; get acquainted with;
I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!
We met in Singapore
Match
Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction;
He always carries matches to light his pipe
Meet
Collect in one place;
We assembled in the church basement
Let's gather in the dining room
Match
A formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
Meet
Meet by design; be present at the arrival of;
Can you meet me at the train station?
Match
A burning piece of wood or cardboard;
If you drop a match in there the whole place will explode
Meet
Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle;
Princeton plays Yale this weekend
Charlie likes to play Mary
Match
An exact duplicate;
When a match is found an entry is made in the notebook
Meet
Experience as a reaction;
My proposal met with much opposition
Match
The score needed to win a match
Meet
Undergo or suffer;
Meet a violent death
Suffer a terrible fate
Match
A person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
Meet
Be in direct physical contact with; make contact;
The two buildings touch
Their hands touched
The wire must not contact the metal cover
The surfaces contact at this point
Match
A person who is of equal standing with another in a group
Meet
Being precisely fitting and right;
It is only meet that she should be seated first
Match
A pair of people who live together;
A married couple from Chicago
Match
Something that resembles or harmonizes with;
That tie makes a good match with your jacket
Match
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics;
The two stories don't agree in many details
The handwriting checks with the signature on the check
The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun
Match
Provide funds complementary to;
The company matched the employees' contributions
Match
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together;
This fact is coupled to the other one
Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
Match
Be equal to in quality or ability;
Nothing can rival cotton for durability
Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues
Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents
Match
Make correspond or harmonize;
Match my sweater
Match
Satisfy or fulfill;
Meet a need
This job doesn't match my dreams
Match
Give or join in marriage
Match
Set into opposition or rivalry;
Let them match their best athletes against ours
Pit a chess player against the Russian champion
He plays his two children off against each other
Match
Be equal or harmonize;
The two pieces match
Match
Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching;
Let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office
The company matched the discount policy of its competitors
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