What's the difference between clash and match?

Clash


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
  • (v. i.) To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.
  • (v. t.) To strike noisily against or together.
  • (n.) A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.
  • (n.) Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (2) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (3) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (4) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
  • (5) The early evening clashes brought a dramatic end to a day that had started off with three large funeral rallies through the suburbs of Manama.
  • (6) Two men were arrested before the north London derby as football fans clashed with police.
  • (7) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
  • (8) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
  • (9) Clashes between the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the Kurdish president, Massoud Barzani, have been escalating since the US withdrawal at the end of 2011, leading to speculation about the declaration of an independent Kurdish state .
  • (10) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
  • (11) 8.56pm BST Howard Amos, who spent this afternoon and evening in Odessa on the scene of clashes between pro-Kiev and pro-Moscow protesters , has filed a report on what he saw.
  • (12) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (13) It also creates the potential for clashes in the studio between BNP members and anti-racism groups who have also urged supporters to try to join the audience.
  • (14) One source familiar with the campaign said Lewandowski had clashed with Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, and was even trying to plant negative stories about Trump’s son-in-law in the press.
  • (15) The Ivory Coast international Sagbo had won the penalty from which Hull scored through Robbie Brady – a decision labelled "incredibly soft" by the Norwich manager, Chris Hughton – but minutes later was sent off after he clashed with Russell Martin.
  • (16) Pro- and anti-GM organisations clashed on Tuesday over the accuracy of industry figures that suggested a rise internationally of 8% in the acreage of GM crops in 2011, a 16th straight rise since they were first sold in 1996.
  • (17) While the Associated Press reported that there were "concerns [the march] would provoke clashes between gays and their opponents", Mayorov told Interfax that the city's decision rested on their wish to "respect morality in the education of the younger generation".
  • (18) Several of the candidates who ran against Lukashenko were arrested and the top opposition leader, Vladimir Neklyaev, was forcibly taken from the hospital where he was being treated after he and two other candidates were beaten during clashes with government forces.
  • (19) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
  • (20) Late on Friday afternoon, violent clashes broke out between Papua New Guinea police and detainees.

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.