Difference between Match and Couple

What is the difference between Match and Couple?

Match as a noun is sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. while Couple as a noun is two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

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: I wrote 'Love Foolish,' and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn't done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.

Couple

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.Two of the same kind connected or considered together (see Usage notes).A small number of. See usage notes.One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.

Example sentence: We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

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

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