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Matchmaking

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Matchmaking is the process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, but the word is also used in the context of sporting events such as boxing, in business, in online video games and in pairing organ donors. [1]

48 relations: Anonymous matching, Arranged marriage, Ashkenazi Jews, Astrology, Bureaucrat, Catholic Church, City-state, Clergy, Collaborative filtering, Contra dance, Couples therapy, Dating, Genetics, Government, Helen Fisher (anthropologist), Hindu astrology, Human rights, Information technology, Khatba, Mail-order bride, Marriage, Marriage market, Matchmaking (video games), Matrimonial website, Neil Clark Warren, Nelle Brooke Stull, Novertur, Oneworld Publications, Online dating service, Orthodox Judaism, Pattern matching, Pepper Schwartz, Personality test, Rabbi, Robert Stewart Sparks, Romance (love), Royal family, Sexology, Shadchan, Shidduch, Singapore, Social dance, Social Development Network, Square dance, Talmud, Tarotology, Upper class, Yue Lao.

Anonymous matching

Anonymous matching is a matchmaking method facilitated by computer databases, in which each user confidentially selects people they are interested in dating and the computer identifies and reports matches to pairs of users who share a mutual attraction.

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Arranged marriage

Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly family members, such as the parents.

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Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation:, singular:, Modern Hebrew:; also), are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium.

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Astrology

Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events.

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Bureaucrat

A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can compose the administration of any organization of any size, although the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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City-state

A city-state is a sovereign state, also described as a type of small independent country, that usually consists of a single city and its dependent territories.

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Clergy

Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.

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Collaborative filtering

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a technique used by recommender systems.

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Contra dance

Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a folk dance made up of long lines of couples.

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Couples therapy

Couple's therapy (also couples' counselling or marriage therapy) attempts to improve romantic relationships and resolve interpersonal conflicts.

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Dating

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a prospective partner in an intimate relationship or marriage.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.

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Helen Fisher (anthropologist)

Helen E. Fisher is an American anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author.

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Hindu astrology

Jyotisha (or Jyotishyam from Sanskrit, from "light, heavenly body") is the traditional Hindu system of astrology, also known as Hindu astrology, Nepalese Shastra, Indian astrology, and more recently Vedic astrology.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.

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Information technology

Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

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Khatba

In Egyptian culture, a khatba (Arabic: خاطب) is a (traditionally female) professional mediator or broker of relationships, who is hired to help in finding a suitable marriage partner.

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Mail-order bride

A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Marriage market

A marriage market can refer to a public place where parents list advertisements for their children with the aim of finding a marital spouse for them.

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Matchmaking (video games)

In multiplayer games, matchmaking is the process of connecting players together for online play sessions.

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Matrimonial website

Matrimonial websites, or marriage websites, are a variation of the standard dating websites.

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Neil Clark Warren

Neil Clark Warren (born September 18, 1934) is an American clinical psychologist, Christian theologian, seminary professor, chairman and co-founder of the online relationship sites eHarmony and Compatible Partners.

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Nelle Brooke Stull

Nelle Brooke Stull of Elyria, Ohio was founder and president of the Widows' & Widowers' Club, which introduced bereaved men and women to each other in hope of making new matches.

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Novertur

Novertur is an online business matchmaking and b2b social networking service dedicated to small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their international business development.

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Oneworld Publications

Oneworld Publications is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market.

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Online dating service

Online dating (or Internet dating) is a system that enables people to find and introduce themselves to new personal connections over the Internet, usually with the goal of developing personal, romantic, or sexual relationships.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

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Pattern matching

In computer science, pattern matching is the act of checking a given sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of some pattern.

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Pepper Schwartz

Pepper Schwartz (born May 11, 1945) is an American sociologist and sexologist teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Personality test

A personality test is a method of assessing human personality constructs.

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Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah.

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Robert Stewart Sparks

Robert Stewart Sparks (1871–1932) was a Los Angeles City Council member in the 1920s.

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Romance (love)

Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.

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Royal family

A royal family is the immediate family of a king or queen regnant, and sometimes his or her extended family.

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Sexology

Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors and functions.

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Shadchan

Shadchan (plural shadchanim or shadchonim) is a Hebrew word for matchmaker.

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Shidduch

The Shidduch (שִׁדּוּךְ, pl. shidduchim, Aramaic שידוכין) is a system of matchmaking in which Jewish singles are introduced to one another in Orthodox Jewish communities for the purpose of marriage.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Social dance

Social dance is that category of dances that have a social function and context.

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Social Development Network

The Social Development Network (SDN), formerly known as "Social Development Unit" (SDU), is a governmental body under the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports of Singapore (now the Ministry of Social and Family Development), which works closely with the community and commercial sectors to foster opportunities for singles to interact in social settings in Singapore.

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Square dance

A square dance is a dance for four couples (eight dancers in total) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square.

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Talmud

The Talmud (Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד talmūd "instruction, learning", from a root LMD "teach, study") is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and theology.

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Tarotology

Tarotology is the basis for the reading of Tarot cards, a subset of cartomancy, which is the practice of using cards to gain insight into the past, present or future by posing a question to the cards.

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Upper class

The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, and usuall are also the wealthiest members of society, and also wield the greatest political power.

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Yue Lao

Yue Lao is a god of marriage and love in Chinese mythology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaking

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