Difference between Match and Correspond

What is the difference between Match and Correspond?

Match as a verb is to agree, to be equal. while Correspond as a verb is to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc.

Match

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. A marriage. Suitability. Equivalence; a state of correspondence. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics. Device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To agree, to be equal. To make a successful match or pairing. To equal or exceed in achievement.

Example sentence: Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Correspond

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc.to exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period of time.

We hope you now know whether to use Match or Correspond in your sentence.

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