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matchstick

[ mach-stik ]

noun

  1. a short, slender piece of flammable wood used in making matches. match.
  2. something that suggests a matchstick, as in thinness or fragility.


matchstick

/ ˈmætʃˌstɪk /

noun

  1. the wooden part of a match


adjective

  1. made with or as if with matchsticks

    a matchstick model

  2. (esp of figures drawn with single strokes) thin and straight

    matchstick men

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Word History and Origins

Origin of matchstick1

First recorded in 1785–95; match 1 + stick 1

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Example Sentences

Two small openings roughly equal to the diameter of a matchstick are left for urination and menstruation respectively.

Turning sidewise, the boat lifted like a matchstick on the crest of a giant wave and spun dizzily down into the trough.

There were several small matchstick size fragments of rib within the pleural cavity.

He rose up suddenly in the chair, pointing a long matchstick finger into Wyatt's face.

He waved the smoking matchstick to imply virtues in Wheaton which it was unnecessary to mention.

One pier of a concrete bridge, erected two years before,256 which spans Silver and Porter Streets, cracked off like a matchstick.

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