| match | |
| 1. n. (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. n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority. | |
| 3. n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. | |
| He knew he had met his match. | |
| 4. n. A marriage. | |
| 5. n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage. | |
| 6. n. Suitability. | |
| 7. n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition. | |
| 8. n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics. | |
| The carpet and curtains are a match. | |
| 9. n. An agreement or compact. | |
| 10. n. (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. n. 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. | |
