What's the difference between bloke and match?

Bloke


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (2) The best thing we can do is to make the effort to empathise with the bloke driving or the bloke in the back.
  • (3) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (4) Pledge news: harsh • 26 Jan , Darragh MacAnthony, Peterborough chairman on the "incredibly harsh" abuse by fans of manager Mark Cooper: "Nobody has given the bloke a chance.
  • (5) It couldn't have happened to a more deserving bloke.
  • (6) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
  • (7) 10.15am BST May the fairer sex be with you Last night's big news from Hollywood was that Star Wars Episode VII has finally added some more women to its bloke-heavy cast list, welcoming Lupita Nyong'o and Gwendoline Christie AKA Brienne of Tarth to a galaxy far, far away.
  • (8) Jan Jan is actually not a bad tune, with distinctive Anastacia-ish vocals being the highlight (alongside a fat bloke formation dancing in the video).
  • (9) Even after being ambushed by anti-terror cops when panicked Londoners reported "a bloke pretending to be a Muslim woman", I didn't complain.
  • (10) I would not say this about all politicians, but he is genuinely a thoroughly nice bloke.” But neither does he want to be too closely tied to a Corbyn project over which he has little or no control.
  • (11) At the risk of of sounding like, well, a girl, I have to say I found it a bit blokely with far too many gimmicks (Lawro's hair?
  • (12) She said: "We all know what it's like: you are at freshers' week, you meet up with a dodgy bloke and you do things that you regret.
  • (13) While Liz won new admirers with her stiff upper cleavage and bloke-dismissal skills, super-snob Sally plumbed new depths of irritation.
  • (14) He was the kind of bloke you’d book the morning cutting session with and have a pint with him at lunchtime – you wouldn’t book the afternoon one because that’d be after his pint!” Porky also encouraged bands to scratch in their own messages.
  • (15) And I raise that by saying that you’ve been criticised over a debt tax which is a tax – there’s no use being semantic and you’re not a bloke who deals in semantics – but as I understand that this was the only way that you could grab people like yourself and politicians in it so you could say, “Look I’m putting my hand in my pocket”.
  • (16) I asked a Tunisian bloke next to me in the bar where I was watching the match.
  • (17) It would be nice if we could say this was because the media had learned their lessons and recognised the importance of scientific evidence, rather than one bloke's hunch.
  • (18) There are many more opportunities for women now, but you are up against some very competitive blokes.
  • (19) In terms of the politics: well, Abbott will get the thumbs up from blokes who feel emasculated by the thought police.
  • (20) So we now know that the riders follow the bloke on the electric bicycle – known as a derny – building up speed as they go before said bloke moves into the centre with two-and-a-half laps to go, leaving the riders to sprint to the finish.

Match


Definition:

  • (n.) 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 dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
  • (v.) A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
  • (v.) 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
  • (v.) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
  • (v.) A matrimonial union; a marriage.
  • (v.) An agreement, compact, etc.
  • (v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
  • (v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
  • (v.) Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
  • (v.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
  • (v. t.) To marry; to give in marriage.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.
  • (v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
  • (2) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
  • (3) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
  • (4) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
  • (5) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (6) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
  • (7) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
  • (8) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (9) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (10) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
  • (11) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (12) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
  • (13) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
  • (14) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
  • (15) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
  • (16) This cDNA was obtained because of an identical 10 bp match with the 3' end of one of the GnRH primers.
  • (17) A positive correlation between PLA2 in SF and matched sera was found in both RA and OA.
  • (18) PAF was found in almost all carcinoma, although it was not detected in most of the matched, nontumor breast tissue samples.
  • (19) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
  • (20) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.