Difference between Match and Fit

What is the difference between Match and Fit?

Match as a noun is sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. while Fit as a noun is the degree to which something fits something else.

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: Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

Fit

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Of an object, to be of the right size and shape so as to match another object.Of clothing, to be of the right size and cut.To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.To be fitting; to suit.To suffer a fit.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: in good shapesuitablegood looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The degree to which something fits something else.(Advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.A section of a poem or ballad, from the sense of fitted to length.A seizure or convulsion.A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.A sudden outburst of emotion.A sudden burst (of an activity).

Example sentence: Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

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

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