What's the difference between matchmaking and potential?

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.

Potential


Definition:

  • (a.) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
  • (a.) Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
  • (n.) Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
  • (n.) In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.
  • (n.) The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
  • (2) Fibulin is a potential mediator of interactions between adhesion receptors and the cytoskeleton.
  • (3) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
  • (4) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
  • (5) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
  • (6) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (7) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
  • (8) Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a cytokine, with potential anti-neoplastic effects.
  • (9) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (10) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
  • (11) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
  • (12) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (13) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
  • (14) The results show that endolymph is extremely inhomogenous with respect to calcium potentials.
  • (15) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
  • (16) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
  • (17) This was unlike the action of the calcium channel blocker, cadmium, which reduced the calcium action potential and the a.h.p.
  • (18) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (19) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
  • (20) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.

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