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noun

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.

a wick, cord, or the like, prepared to burn at an even rate, used to fire cannon, gunpowder, etc.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English macche wick < Middle French meiche, Old French mesche < Vulgar Latin *mesca lamp wick, metathetic variant of Latin myxa < Greek mýxa mucus, nostril, nozzle of a lamp

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Match is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Example Sentences

So, if cutting the match is unavoidable, best to add some sugar to help the medicine go down.

The report offers a range of solutions that match its magnitude.

The amount of money to be gained from playing fair far out paces what a match fixer can give.

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So, if cutting the match is unavoidable, best to add some sugar to help the medicine go down.

The report offers a range of solutions that match its magnitude.

The amount of money to be gained from playing fair far out paces what a match fixer can give.

When it comes to hard stares and stony gazes, no animal can match the chiton, a small mollusk with eyes made of rock crystal.

All you gotta do then is line them up with the peaks of your target person, and it's either a match or it's not.

Or you can go truly thematic and match the lyrics to the menu.

Contrary to popular opinion, cheese and wine aren't an easy match.

Match hidden cards with missions, but also try to remember cards you see and match them to future missions.

Index funds match market returns rather than try to beat them.

Tense to the end, the match was not settled until the stroke of midnight and the last ball.

Then the ranger lights a match and the tiny dot of light magically spreads, illuminating a circle of astonished faces.

Instead, both your choice and the outcome could be prearranged to match.

As it turned out, there was no bone marrow match for me, so that was out of the question.

The table legs are painted white to match the walls, ceiling, and cabinet trim.

Robogames has a lot of scheduled events, but every so often there's an impromptu match that turns out to be a lot of fun.

The economy steadily transformed itself to match the advanced skills that higher education conferred.

Efforts to reform the country's political system, he said, should match these aspirations.

At this real-life fight club, men size each other up for a match.

The researchers gave the fighters the test before and after a match.

As in a game of musical chairs, polluters must scramble to match allowances to emissions.

Looking for colors that exactly match favorite objects.

The idea for the game is to match the frogs with the same color of fireflies.

By matching interests, the theory goes, the test-taker can focus on occupations that might be a good match.

Attempts to match orders between separate dark pools have created a particular problem of information leakage.

Hyenas are pack hunters, and a warthog is no match for the group.

People pay more attention to facts that match their beliefs than those that undermine them.

What the scientists found did not match the conception that birds lost their smelling skills early.

Match the needs of trees you choose to the conditions in your garden.

The objective of the program is to match students with programs they have expressed an interest in, she wrote in an e-mail.

In choosing what to sponsor, marketing executives often aim to match the event to the image of their brand.

They will use this information to match the namesof the each country below with the fact that describes it.

The references don't match up with the text of the report.

But the great turtle is no match for industrial fishing fleets.

Match the system to the situation, the soil, and the plants.

Rochon had a campus woodworker build gates that match the staircase in his house.

Have your students match vocabulary words from the story with their pictures.

The waterfalls of the upcountry match the tranquil rhythms of the coast.

Here, the plywood is painted to match the color of the walls and then faced with pieces of bamboo.

No longer can human history match the scale of natural history.

They textured the wall's stucco finish to match the house.

Roll the dice and lay down any combination of tiles to match your roll.

Manneh sponge-washed the stucco with water to expose its grit, then painted it to match the home's new exterior.

Label each pair so you'll be able to easily match them later.

They're a perfect match with the barbecued ribs and brisket or your favorite grilled steak, fish, or chicken.

Turnitin allows for a certain amount of difference in the source text and the match.

Many more than match the iPad's specification-though none feels quite as slim and svelte to the touch or as pleasing to the eye.

Mysterious lunar flashes match up geographically with puffs of radon gas.

Bright berries and citrus––plus the pop of bubbles and acidity––make brut rosé a great match for a shocking range of menus.

The match immediately became an iconic symbol of the advances made in artificial intelligence and supercomputing.

Students can add, remove and change words and the match will still be shown.

But then human players in the world cup began whinging about the match balls.

Solve puzzles, download wallpaper, and test your memory with our match game.

His direct impressions simply didn't match what he had.

The home has been furnished to match the style of her lifetime, and the museum has been filled with memorabilia for all to view.

The jury however, wasn't told about the probability that someone in the database would match against the profile.

Some places relegated me to the reject pile so fast that they couldn't match letter and envelope.

The yellow and purple hues that should emerge in the spring will match their school colours.

Thus, the colors in the fragments didn't match those in the photographs.

Notice how the brick-lined arcades match the train tunnel below.

Nikon's new telephoto zoom lens is huge, and has a price-tag to match.

But it had also turned into a forum for an acrimonious slanging match between supporters of the monarchy and its critics.

Choose any large pot and umbrella that match your garden decor and coordinate with each other.

TransUnion says it's not responsible for what happens when they list a possible match to the list on a credit report.

OP, your subject line and your body of your message don't quite match.

But people power meets its match in a regime ready to kill and torture as many as it takes to cling to power.

Get an eyeful of a reptilian wrestling match in this video.

Scientists may have an answer to why certain volcanoes spew forth lava that doesn't match with their predictions.

The two may as well be in entirely different dimensions, the match up between the new footage and the old stock is so bad.

One solution is to see if your department will match a small external grant.

These days he has a political vision-and a business nose to match.

Chameleons don't change colors to match their surroundings.

To match this capacity with conventional pairs of copper wires would require a cable many times larger.

He and his co-workers probe how chimpanzees remember, learn numbers, perceive and categorize objects and match voices with faces.

Mix and match any of the meatball flavor variations with the serving suggestions that follow:.

The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer's hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun.

Spouse is beginning to teach her how to match up the notes on sheet music with the.

In football, a predictable match is nearly always a dull match.

Use the field book to discover if the animals you have found match the flockers on your list.

The test is certain to be followed by scores of others that attempt to better match drug to patient.

The park buildings, fences and vehicles match those from the movie, and the dinosaurs match their big-screen counterparts.

Terra-cotta pots are painted silvery gray to match the porch.

Adjusts video quality continually to match available bandwidth.

If your skills warrant higher compensation elsewhere, ask for a match or leave.

There are two key measures of how good a biometric system is: the false match rate, and the false non-match rate.

And an antibody probe for, say, anthrax needs to make a match with the exact strain of the specific bacterium it is targeting.

We want to make fun table wines, and make a menu to match those wines.

Cyc can use its vast knowledge base to match natural language queries.

Their fatigue is real, but it's no match for their.

But it is unlikely that anyone will match her tenacity in trying to make the stories come true.

One lone sea lion is no match for a pod of female killer whales.

The trick is figuring out how these categories match up with new discoveries in the brain sciences.

But she can hold a lighted match up the fire detector”.

Formulated to match the natural color of citrus bark, the paint provides the same.

Laptops have developed into three key categories that match the lifestyles of the people who use them.

RoomBug is hardly the first service to let students match themselves:.

While some may carp, none has been able to match its instant global brand recognition.

She's given herself a two-year time frame to find the perfect match.

Perhaps solar power can match the retail price of supplying electricity to a home, but only during bright sunshine.

Since many of the bodies lack death records or obituaries, the goal is to match the remains with the family names.

It will even have a bed custom-made to match your favorite chair.

One approach that the report endorses is the adoption of programs to match private donations with public.

The organic pigments can also be studied to identify forgeries and match similar works of art.

Check a partial list of companies that match employee gifts.

Still, it seems the unending chess match between hackers and security programmers has found a new playing field.

Make patio chairs more inviting with seat cushions and pillows covered in outdoor fabrics to match the flowers.

The university's response in this case does not seem to match the gravity of the violation committed here.

But for all its survival tools, it's no match for man.

The shaded region is the error estimate of the models, while the dotted red line is the model scaled up to match the data.

Wild open space holds a power that no museum or chandeliered restaurant can match.

Burn cut ends of stems with a match to make flowers last longer.

The final lines of the printed version didn't match his own memory.

Powerful as this creature seems, it has met its match in man's depredation.

But a prominent solar scientist who studies those flows says that the model does not match observational data.

Dinosaurs had bird-style eyes, so camouflage had to match habitat colors.

They're all made with the same sugar cookie dough and frosting, so you can mix and match.

We've sorted through the new contenders to match up the right digital camera for your shooting style.

It has a shortage of researchers to match its ambitions.

Read the quotes, and match them up with the causes above.

We had to come up with a mathematical algorithm to unfold the cortex and match the signal to its source".

One danger of this kind of test is if instructors try to match teaching style to learning styles.

So the avatars' gestures while listening did not necessarily match the gestures of real listeners.

Thankfully, there's no faux-Bavarian village to match.

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noun

a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.

a person or thing able to cope with another as an equal: to meet one's match.

a person or thing that is an exact counterpart of another.

a corresponding, suitably associated, or harmonious pair: The blue hat and green scarf were not a good match.

Sports.

a game or contest in which two or more contestants or teams oppose each other: a soccer match.

a contest consisting of a specific number of sets: a tennis match.

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any contest or competition that resembles a sports match: a shouting match.

a person considered with regard to suitability as a partner in marriage: a good match.

a matrimonial union; marriage: Neither family approved of the match.

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verb (used with object)

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.

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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.

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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:
before 900; Middle English macche, Old English gemæcca mate, fellow

Related forms

match·a·ble, adjective

match·er, noun

un·match·a·ble, adjective

un·matched, adjective

un·match·ing, adjective

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well-matched, adjective

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World English Dictionary

match¹ (mætʃ)

—n
1.	a formal game or sports event in which people, teams, etc, compete to win
2.	a person or thing able to provide competition for another: she's met her match in talking ability
3.	a person or thing that resembles, harmonizes with, or is equivalent to another in a specified respect: that coat is a good match for your hat
4.	a person or thing that is an exact copy or equal of another
5.	a. a partnership between a man and a woman, as in marriage
	b. an arrangement for such a partnership
6.	a person regarded as a possible partner, as in marriage

—vb (sometimes foll by up) (sometimes foll by with or against) (often foll by to or with) (often foll by with or against)
7.	to fit (parts) together: to match the tongue and groove of boards
8.	to resemble, harmonize with, correspond to, or equal (one another or something else): the skirt matches your shoes well
9.	to compare in order to determine which is the superior: they matched wits
10.	to adapt so as to correspond with: to match hope with reality
11.	to arrange a competition between
12.	to find a match for
13.	electronics to connect (two circuits) so that their impedances are equal or are equalized by a coupling device, to produce a maximum transfer of energy

[Old English gemæcca spouse; related to Old High German gimmaha wife, Old Norse maki mate]

'matchable¹

—*adj*

'matcher¹

—n

'matching¹

—*adj*

match² (mætʃ)

—n
1.	See safety match a thin strip of wood or cardboard tipped with a chemical that ignites by friction when rubbed on a rough surface or a surface coated with a suitable chemical
2.	a length of cord or wick impregnated with a chemical so that it burns slowly. It is used to fire cannons, explosives, etc

[C14: from Old French meiche, perhaps from Latin myxa wick, from Greek muxa lamp nozzle]

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Word Origin & History

match

"stick for striking fire," late 14c., "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

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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

"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.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

match

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