match
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
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metallurgy
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natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English macche, mecche, from Old English mæċċa, ġemæċċa (“companion, mate, wife, one suited to another”), from Proto-West Germanic *makkjō, *gamakkjō (“partner, equal”), from Proto-Germanic *makô, from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, work”). Compare Danish mage (“mate”), Icelandic maki (“spouse”).
Inflected forms:
form: matches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: matches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: matching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: matched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: matched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
pos: noun
examples: My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
Can you play billiards? / Yes, do you wish to have a match with me? / Let us simply play (a game) for pleasure. We needn't have a match, as I don't like to gamble.
gloss: Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
pos: noun
examples: Ferrer his Taberd vvith rich Verry ſpred, / VVell knovvne in many a vvarlike match before; […]
A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
gloss: Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
pos: noun
examples: He knew he had met his match.
Government […] makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
Dean Ippolito looks like an ordinary kid. But at chess, he is a knight of battle. Most adults are no match for him.
gloss: A marriage.
pos: noun
gloss: A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
pos: noun
examples: She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
gloss: Suitability.
pos: noun
gloss: Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
pos: noun
examples: The seat to window match is excellent and there are half-size partition screens between bays.
gloss: Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
pos: noun
examples: It were no match, your nail against his horn.
gloss: A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
pos: noun
examples: The carpet and curtains are a match.
a match made in heaven
gloss: An agreement or compact.
pos: noun
examples: Thy hand upon that match.
[I]t hath been obſerv'd, that Love doth ſeldome ſuffer it ſelf to be confin'd by other matches, then thoſe of its ovvne making.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.
gloss: To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His interests didn't match her interests.
There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
gloss: To equal or exceed in achievement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
gloss: To make a successful match or pairing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
gloss: To unite in marriage, to mate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: […]Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
A senator of Rome survived,
 Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
gloss: To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
pos: verb
examples: to match boards
gloss: To be an example of a rule or regex.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.
Antonyms: differ
Related words: competition
game
set
tournament
mate
Derived words: aftermatch
beer match
be no match for
cage match
cockmatch
deathmatch
exhibition match
first class match
football match
friendly match
game, set, match
grudge match
hair match
hatch, match and dispatch
intermatch
ladder match
looksmatch
love match
man of the match
match ball
matchboard
matchbreaker
match cut
match day
match dissolve
match factor
match fixing
matchgate
matchless
matchlike
match made in heaven
match made in hell
matchmake
matchmaker
matchmaking
matchmark
match moving
match penalty
match play
matchplay
matchplayer
match point
matchpot
match race
match racing
match referee
match wagon
matchweek
matchwinner
matchwinning
meet one's match
midmatch
mirror match
mismatch
needle match
nonmatch
odds match
one-day match
overmatch
parlor match
pissing match
player of the match
post-match
postmatch
pre-match
prematch
price match
rematch
return match
rubber match
screaming match
shitting match
shooting match
shouting match
slanging match
steel cage match
stretcher match
submatch
television match official
test match
Test match
tour match
whole shitting match
whole shooting match
wildmat
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