What's the difference between catchable and matchable?
Catchable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being caught.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would've been a stunning catch, but it was catchable.
(2) Estimates of population size obtained by capture-recapture methods refer solely to the catchable portion of a population.
(3) They are based on twice sampling the proportion of marked animals in the population: the first sample is drawn from catchable animals only, the second from mixed catchable and uncatchable animals.
Matchable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.
Example Sentences:
(1) 30 subjects of old and middle age (28 male, 2 female) with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and 20 normal subjects with matchable age and body weight (14 male, 6 female) as control were studied with nocturnal polysomnography for at least 7 hours.
(2) The tragedy of Latin American health planning has been that the wisdom of their approach, which seeks to concern health consumers first rather than cater to the avarice of health producers as is done in the U.S., has not been matchable by the level of technological and political sophistication needed to bring it off.
(3) Although CAPD as isolated technique may offer to diabetic patients a longer survival and HD a lower hospitalization rate, combined treatment (HD-CAPD-IPD) may provide a survival matchable to that achieved in renal transplantation.
(4) In the City of Torino the Local Population and Family Register records and the Census records are matchable through a computerized record linkage procedure.
(5) We also show that ABO type and HLA homozygocity can affect matchability.
(6) Patients with easily matchable ABO-HLA phenotypes should wait for beneficially matched transplants.
(7) The matchability of a patient awaiting kidney transplantation is his propensity for being 'well-matched'.
(8) It is commonly supposed that phenotype frequency is a good predictor of matchability.
(9) We present two methods for estimating matchability.
(10) Forty cardiopulmonary bypass patients were randomized into two matchable groups, an ultrafiltration and an control group.
(11) We show a correlation of only 0.3 between matchability and phenotype frequency using the definition of 'well-matched' used by the UK Transplant Service.