What's the difference between match and selector?

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.

Selector


Definition:

  • (n.) One who selects.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using consumer survey data from the Missouri Managed Health Care Project, we examined characteristics and use experiences of assignees compared with selectors.
  • (2) The use of this selector creates a possibility of reducing the increase in the synchronizing pulse with respect to the channel pulses and eliminating tuning the transmitter's modulator and receiver's selector to each other.
  • (3) The optimum threshold values for this selector are as follows: 12 ms in the rate and 14 ms in the duration.
  • (4) The members of the main feeding categories (Hofmann, Stewart 1972): concentrate selector, roughage eater and intermediate feeder did not differ much in the ultrastructure of the fundic stomach epithelium but showed greater differences with respect to the height and shape of the glandular tubules and the arrangement of the epithelial cell types.
  • (5) The DNaseI footprint of this protein complex with the enhancer overlapped a sequence, AGGAGGA, found within the binding site for a protein that interacts with the chicken beta globin promoter and enhancer, termed the stage selector element.
  • (6) These results support the selector gene model of development (Garcia-Bellido, 1975) and emphasize that collaboration between polyclones is important in pattern formation.
  • (7) But the East Ender will not compete over the one lap in Daegu, while the runner-up – Shana Cox – only qualifies for a British passport from November of this year and so all three British places are up for grabs as the selectors meet to decide who will travel to South Korea this summer.
  • (8) In Drosophila embryos, anterior-posterior positional identities are set and maintained by the expression boundaries of homeotic selector genes.
  • (9) Use of the full panel to grade all abstracts was very expensive, but it could be replaced, without unacceptable injustice, by dividing the work randomly among groups of three selectors.
  • (10) Using the selector method on serial plastic sections, we determine the number of epithelial or interstitial cells per volume (Nv) of total epithelium or interstitium.
  • (11) So this element is likely to be a target of homeotic genes, which would define the beta 3 tubulin gene as a realisator gene under the control of selector genes.
  • (12) A monitor useful for checks of the energy selector scale of medical electron accelerators was developed and tested.
  • (13) Indeed, c-Jun and c-Fos served as selectors of hormone responsiveness: the composite GRE was inactive in the absence of c-Jun, whereas it conferred a positive glucocorticoid effect in the presence of c-Jun, and a negative glucocorticoid effect in the presence of c-Jun and relatively high levels of c-Fos.
  • (14) The noise immunity of the units can be considerably improved by means of the R-wave selector that discriminates signals by rate and duration of the pulse decay (RS-slope).
  • (15) The homeotic selector gene Deformed (Dfd) is required to specify the identity of head segments during Drosophila development.
  • (16) Two different selectors are described: a simple one for two different pulse widths and a more complicated one with a counter for any setting of pulse width in the system.
  • (17) We show that the eve gene contains a homeo box and hence is related structurally to the pair-rule gene fushi tarazu and to homeotic selector genes.
  • (18) In order to improve synchronization in biotelemetry systems, a relative pulse-width selector was designed.
  • (19) Binding of selector proteins to regulatory DNA sequences is mediated by an evolutionary conserved protein domain, the homeodomain.
  • (20) Advantages of the selectors are compact size, reproducibility of size-selection performance based on the high precision of drill manufacture and use, flexibility in design and layout, and manufacturing ease in a machine shop.