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match

/mæt͡ʃ/
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noun

  • A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

    "My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today."

  • Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
  • Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

    "He knew he had met his match."

  • A marriage.
  • A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
  • Suitability.
  • Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
  • Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
  • A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

    "The carpet and curtains are a match."

  • An agreement or compact.
  • A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.

verb

  • To agree; to be equal; to correspond.

    "Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together."

  • To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.

    "His interests didn't match her interests."

  • To make a successful match or pairing.

    "They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly."

  • To equal or exceed in achievement.

    "She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better."

  • To unite in marriage, to mate.
  • To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

    "to match boards"

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