Meaning of Match | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
2. A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
3. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
4. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
5. A marriage.
6. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
7. Suitability.
8. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
9. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
10. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
11. An agreement or compact.
12. 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.

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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.”

“Ferrer his Taberd vvith rich Verry ſpred, / VVell knovvne in many a vvarlike match before; […]”

“A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.”

“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.”

“She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.”

“The seat to window match is excellent and there are half-size partition screens between bays.”

“It were no match, your nail against his horn.”

“The carpet and curtains are a match.”

“a match made in heaven”

“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.”

Seraphick Love

“He struck a match and lit his cigarette.”

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