What's the difference between match and violin?

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.

Violin


Definition:

  • (n.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
  • (2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
  • (3) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
  • (4) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
  • (5) Gambaccini has claimed Savile played the tabloids like a Stradivarius violin to prevent details of his private life being revealed.
  • (6) The other is Coz Fontenot, a burly, bearded 48-year-old, who sits on a fold-out chair, splitting his time between solos on a battered violin and lead vocals.
  • (7) I arrived back at Baker Street to find Holmes playing a mournful Webern sonata on the violin and for a moment I feared he had succumbed once more to his penchant for cocaine.
  • (8) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.
  • (9) Latterly, in unfamiliar concert halls, she would bring him from the dressing room to the side of the stage and he would just be able to see the gap between the first and second violins [to walk to the podium].
  • (10) This is a violin,” replied Alá, now 10 years old.
  • (11) Gardner recorded and engineered Cabinet of Curiosities at his Shadow Shoppe Studio in Holland, playing every instrument himself save the drums, having mastered recorder, clarinet, bass, guitar, keyboards and violin as a child.
  • (12) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
  • (13) It's the only way I can bear to listen to my violin playing."
  • (14) When you're waiting for the arrival of the procession in the strikingly silent environs of the local rice fields, it acts as a kind of siren, heralding the approach of The Run with the aid of violins, acoustic guitars and the inevitable accordions.
  • (15) It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach.
  • (16) A case is reported of degenerative joint disease in the right mandibular condyle of an 11-year-old boy, apparently due to violin playing.
  • (17) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
  • (18) Our current band is called Quattrio , in which I play recorder, Cath plays violin, Rita plays harpsichord and Jo played cello, but had to leave the group last year.
  • (19) Now, they think it's cool; since this started, it's dead cool to play a violin in West Everton."
  • (20) At first when he turned up at jazz venues musicians laughed that he had a violin - to them it was a classical instrument.