What's the difference between matchmaking and partner?

Matchmaking


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
  • (n.) The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.
  • (a.) Busy in making or contriving marriages; as, a matchmaking woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Judicious matchmaking saw Patterson build up an impressive winning streak, in much the same way as some of the over-protected champions of today.
  • (2) It's fascinating what happens when you matchmake some of Britain's best fashion designers with artists.
  • (3) And since people who join the sharing economy aren't technically employees, it's not the matchmaker's fault if they don't follow every regulation to the letter.
  • (4) Matchmaking marathoners can also find their perfect running partner by browsing user profiles detailing people's interests, speed records and even favourite running surfaces.
  • (5) A BBC documentary in 2004, Mohammad and the Matchmaker , made by Maziar Bahari, features the work of the Alaeis who often became very close to their patients, to help them cope with their new lives.
  • (6) The researchers act as matchmakers, putting pairs of sea slugs into 1.25 ml wells “for one hour or until ongoing copulations had finished”.
  • (7) Looking for Groups, meanwhile, is more like a matchmaking app, which lets you quickly discover like-minded players to compete beside or against.
  • (8) In the firm's eyes, it's the paragon of the "sharing economy": a world where people with spare rooms, cars, or even power tools share them with others in a way impossible before tech firms arrived to act as matchmakers.
  • (9) The time for computerised matchmaking hadn't yet reached a critical mass.
  • (10) In the end they went to a matchmaker and found a girl," Tamira says.
  • (11) The Matchmaker is a whimsical but miraculous piece – a staged version of the John B Keane epistolary novella that charts the efforts of a decent man to marry off achingly lonely country folk in the teeth of priestly disapproval.
  • (12) I feel like he is gilding the lily somewhat with his “fourth-generation matchmaker” schtick, but that everyone is having too much fun getting off with each other to care.
  • (13) Between March 2013 and the same month this year it found that a bottle of Persil Small & Mighty Biological Colour Liquid had shrunk by 17%, for example, while a box of Nestlé Matchmakers and Birds Eye Takeaway Feasts Original Chicken Popstars had become 14% and 12% smaller, respectively.
  • (14) • Tent for two from €150, +353 64 664 2888, dromquinnamanor.com Clare: Wild Honey Inn Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the edge of the small town of Lisdoonvarna, home of the famous annual matchmaking festival , and close to the Cliffs of Moher , the Burren , and Doolin , for trips to the Aran Islands , this superb gastropub with rooms is owned and run by chef Aidan McGrath and his wife Kate Sweeney.
  • (15) Rolling out city by city makes matchmaking easier, but it means that only a tiny portion of the UK and US can use the site so far; and along similar lines, it has only become large enough to support same-sex Groupers in a few American cities.
  • (16) It was an echo of a sentiment expressed throughout the campaign by celebrities such as Girls’ Lena Dunham and comedian Keegan-Michael Key – and embraced by an enterprising Texan who launched a matchmaking service linking Americans looking to flee a Trump presidency with Canadians.
  • (17) This is The Outing, an LGBT spin-off of the famous Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival, in the tiny town (population 822) in County Clare, west Ireland.
  • (18) At the end of 2015, it had 573 fighters under contract and it’s the UFC’s matchmakers who decide who fights who, where and when.
  • (19) Protesters filled "matchmaking" forms to on arrival, listing their preferences and skills in activities such as climbing, standing their ground, getting through or over fences, looking after people, providing entertainment or documenting the action.
  • (20) The more choices available (ie the more popular a matchmaking website), we are told, the better for those making the choice.

Partner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.
  • (n.) An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.
  • (n.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To associate, to join.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
  • (2) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
  • (3) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
  • (4) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (5) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
  • (6) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
  • (7) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
  • (8) Furthermore, these data support our previous suggestion that the expression of human lymphoid differentiation antigens in human-mouse lymphoid hybrids is influenced by the differentiation stage of the fusion partners.
  • (9) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
  • (10) Simon Cross, 46, his partner Lizzy Gilliland, 42, and their son Gabriel, two, from Nottingham, expressed the views of many attending.
  • (11) France has given £34m and we have got to get our partners to make a step change.
  • (12) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
  • (13) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
  • (14) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
  • (15) The women used a variety of resources, and their partners were particularly helpful.
  • (16) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (17) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (18) The two of them broke up with their partners and in 1974 they married.
  • (19) The concordance, sensitivity, and specificity of proxy reports about partners' occupation, smoking, and drinking were examined in relation to self-reports.
  • (20) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC

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