1. subst. (sports) 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.
2. subst. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
3. subst. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
He knew he had met his match.
4. subst. A marriage.
5. subst. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
6. subst. Suitability.
7. subst. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
8. subst. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
The carpet and curtains are a match.
9. subst. An agreement or compact.
10. subst. (metalworking) 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 o
11. v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
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.
12. v. To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
His interests didn't match her interests.
13. v. To make a successful match or pairing.
They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
14. v. To equal or exceed in achievement.
She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
15. v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
16. v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
to match boards
17. subst. A 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.
He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
matchstick
matchstick
1. subst. A small, slender piece of wood or cardboard serving as a component of a match.
The end of the matchstick is dipped in a sulfurous compound to turn it into a complete match.
2. subst. (mostly, in the plural) Any similarly small and thin piece.
The explosion blew the powder shed to matchsticks.
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