Match
Definitions
- 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.
- A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Conjugation
Browse the table or drill it — all tenses, moods, and persons of Match.
Equivalents
Españolarmonizarcerillacerillocoincidircombinacióncombinarcomplementarcomplementarsecomplementoconcordarconcurrircorrespondenciacorrespondercorrespondersecuadraremparejaduraemparejamientoemparejarempatarempatarseencajarentonarequivalenciaestar a juegoestar a juego confósforohacer juegohacerle juegoharmonizarigualigualarigualarsemacharmachearmistomixtoparejapartidopegarvelilla
69 more languages
Afrikaansvuurhoutjie
বাংলাদেশলাই
Euskarapospolo
ગુજરાતીરમત
Hausaashana
Italiano(degno) avversarioabbinamentoaccoppiatacerinocorrispondenzacorrisponderefiammiferogaraincontrarsiincontromatchparipartitasimilesoddisfareuguagliarezolfanello
ქართულიასანთი
LëtzebuergeschFixspoun
Lingálaaliméti
Maltilogħba
Polskidopasowywaćdorównaćdorównywaćłączyćmeczmeczowyparowaćpartiapasowaćrozgrywkaspotkaniezapałkazawodyzbiegać
Русскийматчпараподходитьровнясовпадатьсовпастьсоответствоватьсопоставлятьсоревнованиесостяза́ниеспичка
Slovenščinavžigalica
தமிழ்தீக்குச்சி
తెలుగుఅగ్గిపుల్ల
Тоҷикӣгӯгирд
Türkmençekükürt
Tagalogposporo
ئۇيغۇرچەمۇسابىقە
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.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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