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mismatch

verb
/ˌmɪsˈmæt͡ʃ//ˈmɪs.mæt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From mis- + match (verb sense).

  1. derived from *mag-✻ — “to knead, work”
  2. derived from *makô✻
  3. inherited from *makkjō✻
  4. inherited from mæċċa
  5. inherited from macche
  6. formed as mismatch — “mis- + match”

Definitions

  1. To match unsuitably

    To match unsuitably; to fail to match

  2. Something that does not match

    Something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.

    • After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mismatch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA