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match

1  [mach]
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–noun
1. a slender piece of wood, cardboard, or other flammable material tipped with a chemical substance that produces fire when rubbed on a rough or chemically prepared surface.
2. a wick, cord, or the like, prepared to burn at an even rate, used to fire cannon, gunpowder, etc.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME macche wick < MF meiche, OF mesche < VL *mesca lamp wick, metathetic var. of L myxa < Gk mýxa mucus, nostril, nozzle of a lamp
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2  [mach]
–noun
1. a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
2. a person or thing able to cope with another as an equal: to meet one's match.
3. a person or thing that is an exact counterpart of another.
4. a corresponding, suitably associated, or harmonious pair: The blue hat and green scarf were not a good match.
5. Sports.
a. a game or contest in which two or more contestants or teams oppose each other: a soccer match.
b. a contest consisting of a specific number of sets: a tennis match.
6. any contest or competition that resembles a sports match: a shouting match.
7. a person considered with regard to suitability as a partner in marriage: a good match.
8. a matrimonial union; marriage: Neither family approved of the match.
–verb (used with object)
9. to equal; be equal to: My talent does not match his.
10. to be the match or counterpart of; harmonize with: The skirt matches the jacket perfectly.
11. to cause to correspond; adapt: to match one's actions to one's beliefs.
12. to fit together, as two things: to match the pieces of a puzzle.
13. to fit (boards) together, side by side or end to end, with a tongue-and-groove or rabbeted joint.
14. to procure or produce an equal to: Try though we did, we could not match our first success.
15. to place in opposition or conflict: I matched my wits against his strength.
16. to provide with an adversary or competitor of equal power: The teams were well matched.
17. to encounter as an adversary with equal power.
18. to prove a match for.
19. to unite in marriage; procure a matrimonial alliance for.
20. to toss (coins) into the air and then compare the matching or contrasting sides that land facing up, as for determining the winner of a bet.
21. to match coins with.
–verb (used without object)
22. to be equal or suitable: Our talents match.
23. to correspond; be of corresponding size, shape, color, pattern, etc.: These gloves do not match.
24. Archaic. to ally oneself in marriage.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME macche, OE gemæcca mate, fellow

Related forms:
match⋅a⋅ble, adjective
matcher, noun
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match 1   (māch)   
n.  
    1. One that is exactly like another; a counterpart.
    2. One that is like another in one or more specified qualities: He is John's match for bravery.
    3. One that closely resembles or harmonizes with another: The napkins were a nice match for the tablecloth.
    4. A pair, each one of which resembles or harmonizes with the other: The colors were a close match.
    5. A game or contest in which two or more persons, animals, or teams oppose and compete with each other: a soccer match.
    6. A tennis contest won by the player or side that wins a specified number of sets, usually two out of three or three out of five.
  2. One that is able to compete equally with another: The boxer had met his match.
    1. One that closely resembles or harmonizes with another: The napkins were a nice match for the tablecloth.
    2. A pair, each one of which resembles or harmonizes with the other: The colors were a close match.
    3. A game or contest in which two or more persons, animals, or teams oppose and compete with each other: a soccer match.
    4. A tennis contest won by the player or side that wins a specified number of sets, usually two out of three or three out of five.
  4. Sports
    1. A game or contest in which two or more persons, animals, or teams oppose and compete with each other: a soccer match.
    2. A tennis contest won by the player or side that wins a specified number of sets, usually two out of three or three out of five.
  5. A marriage or an arrangement of marriage: a royal match.
  6. A person viewed as a prospective marriage partner.
v.   matched, match·ing, match·es

v.   tr.
    1. To be exactly like; correspond exactly.
    2. To be like with respect to specified qualities.
  2. To resemble or harmonize with: The coat matches the dress.
  3. To adapt or suit so that a balanced or harmonious result is achieved; cause to correspond: You should match your deeds to your beliefs.
  4. To find or produce a counterpart to: It's difficult to match the color of old paint.
  5. To fit together or cause to fit together.
  6. To join or give in marriage.
  7. To place in opposition or competition; pit: She matched her skill against all comers.
  8. To provide with an adversary or competitor.
  9. To do as well as or better than in competition; equal.
  10. To set in comparison; compare: beauty that could never be matched.
  11. To provide funds so as to equal or complement: The government will match all private donations to the museum.
  12. To flip or toss (coins) and compare the sides that land face up.
  13. To couple (electric circuits) by means of a transformer.
v.   intr.
To be a close counterpart; correspond.

[Middle English macche, from Old English gemæcca, companion, mate; see mag- in Indo-European roots.]
match'er n.
match 2   (māch)   
n.  
  1. A narrow piece, usually of wood or cardboard, coated on one end with a compound that ignites when scratched against a rough or chemically treated surface.
  2. An easily ignited cord or wick, formerly used to detonate powder charges or to fire cannons and muzzle-loading firearms.

[Middle English matche, lamp wick, from Old French mesche, from Vulgar Latin *micca, from Latin myxa, a lamp's nozzle, from Greek muxa, mucus, lamp wick.]
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Match

Match\, n. [OE. macche, F. m[`e]che, F. m[`e]che, fr. L. myxa a lamp nozzle, Gr. ? mucus, nostril, a lamp nozzle. Cf. Mucus.] Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.

Match box, a box for holding matches.

Match tub, a tub with a perforated cover for holding slow matches for firing cannon, esp. on board ship. The tub contains a little water in the bottom, for extinguishing sparks from the lighted matches.

Quick match, threads of cotton or cotton wick soaked in a solution of gunpowder mixed with gum arabic and boiling water and afterwards strewed over with mealed powder. It burns at the rate of one yard in thirteen seconds, and is used as priming for heavy mortars, fireworks, etc.

Slow match, slightly twisted hempen rope soaked in a solution of limewater and saltpeter or washed in a lye of water and wood ashes. It burns at the rate of four or five inches an hour, and is used for firing cannon, fireworks, etc.

Match

Match\, n. [OE. macche, AS. gem[ae]cca; akin to gemaca, and to OS. gimako, OHG. gimah fitting, suitable, convenient, Icel. mark suitable, maki mate, Sw. make, Dan. mage; all from the root of E. make, v. See Make mate, and Make, v., and cf. Mate an associate.]

1. A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.

Government . . . makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects. --Addison.

2. A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like; as, specifically: (a) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle. "Many a warlike match." --Drayton.

A solemn match was made; he lost the prize. --Dryden. (b) A matrimonial union; a marriage.

3. An agreement, compact, etc. "Thy hand upon that match." --Shak.

Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making. --Boyle.

4. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage. "She . . . was looked upon as the richest match of the West." --Clarendon.

5. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

It were no match, your nail against his horn. --Shak.

6. Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

7. (Founding) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.

Match boarding (Carp.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove, or prepared to be so fitted.

Match game, a game arranged as a test of superiority.

Match plane (Carp.), either of the two planes used to shape the edges of boards which are joined by grooving and tonguing.

Match plate (Founding), a board or plate on the opposite sides of which the halves of a pattern are fastened, to facilitate molding. --Knight.

Match wheel (Mach.), a cogwheel of suitable pitch to work with another wheel; specifically, one of a pair of cogwheels of equal size.

Match

Match\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matched; p. pr. & vb. n. Matching.]

1. To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.

No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness. --Shak.

2. To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.

No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct. --South.

3. To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.

Eternal might To match with their inventions they presumed So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn. --Milton.

4. To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth. "Matching of patterns and colors." --Swift.

5. To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).

Let poets match their subject to their strength. --Roscommon.

6. To marry; to give in marriage.

A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king. --Addison.

7. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.

Matching machine, a planing machine for forming a tongue or a groove on the edge of a board.

Match

Match\, v. i. 1. To be united in marriage; to mate.

I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. --Shak.

Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep. --Dryden.

2. To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
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Language Translation for : match
Spanish: cerilla, fósforo,
German: das Streichholz,
Japanese: マッチ
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match  (1)
"stick for striking fire," 1377, "wick of a candle or lamp," from O.Fr. meiche "wick of a candle," from V.L. *micca/*miccia (cf. Catalan metxa, Sp. mecha, It. miccia), probably ult. from L. myxa, from Gk. myxa "lamp wick," originally "mucus," based on notion of wick dangling from the spout of a lamp like snot from a nostril. Meaning "piece of cord or splinter of wood soaked in sulphur, used for lighting fires, lamps, candles, etc." is from 1530. First used 1831 for the modern type of friction match, and competed with lucifer for much of 19c. as the name for this invention.

match  (2)
"one of a pair," O.E. mæcca, from gemæcca "companion, mate, wife, one suited to another," from P.Gmc. *gamakon "fitting well together" (cf. O.H.G. gimah "comfort, ease," M.H.G. gemach "comfortable, quiet"), from PIE base *mak-/*mag- "to fit" (see make (v.)). M.E. sense of "matching adversary, person able to contend with another" (c.1300) led to sporting meaning "contest," first attested 1545. Match-maker "marriage-broker" is attested from c.1639.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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match

see meet one's match; mix and match; whole ball of wax (shooting match).

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