Word Finder - match

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A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

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My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

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Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

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Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

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He knew he had met his match.

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A marriage.

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A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

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Suitability.

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Equivalence; a state of correspondence.

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Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

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A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

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The carpet and curtains are a match.

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An agreement or compact.

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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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To agree; to be equal; to correspond.

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Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.

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To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.

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His interests didn't match her interests.

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To make a successful match or pairing.

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They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.

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To equal or exceed in achievement.

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She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.

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To unite in marriage, to mate.

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

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to match boards

As a rule, a match consists of 21 points, or 21 ends (or a few more, by agreement).

Can you match that pedigree, little girl?

My match burned my fingertips before I shook it out.

Zeb struck a match and lighted one of the lanterns.

But Cesare, while trusting no one, proved a match for them all.

I will make a match for you with the princess.

She struck fire with the third match and tossed it into the stove.

She'd always thought him her perfect match in the sparring ring.

He had arranged this for himself so as to visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas Bolkonski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that rich old man.

I will do all I can to arrange the match between them.

It was a good match for her mood.

His father announced to him that he would now pay half his debts for the last time, but only on condition that he went to Moscow as adjutant to the commander-in-chief--a post his father had procured for him--and would at last try to make a good match there.

He took a jar lid from the cupboard and lit a match, holding it on the bottom of the candle until it began to melt.

That the Cesare of history does not exactly match the Duca Valentino of Machiavelli's writings is certain.

A great hunting match was organized at Danchurch in Warwickshire by Digby, to which large numbers of the Roman Catholic gentry were invited, who were to join the plot after the successful accomplishment of the explosion of the 5th of November, the day fixed for the opening of parliament, and get possession of the princess Elizabeth, then residing in the neighbourhood; while Percy was to seize the infant prince Charles and bring him on horseback to their meeting-place.

She felt this to be their last hope and that if Nicholas refused the match she had found for him, she would have to abandon the hope of ever getting matters right.

His having encountered her in such exceptional circumstances, and his mother having at one time mentioned her to him as a good match, had drawn his particular attention to her.

To Sarah and Connor, a match made in heaven.

Any such shifts in funding have to be match funded from the national exchequer.

Boris had not succeeded in making a wealthy match in Petersburg, so with the same object in view he came to Moscow.

The question was no longer whether this was possible, but only which was the better match and how the matter would be regarded at court.

I heard that they were arranging a match for her with young Rostov.

There was also the change in paint composition, it's a lot harder to match natures colors using today's mostly opaque palette.

Official match sponsors Northern Care awarded their man of the match plaudits to Adie Orr.

Dolokhov was a suitable and in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl.

Her father objected to this because he wanted a more distinguished and wealthier match for Andrew.

The result, though disastrous, abundantly demonstrated Leslie's capacity as a soldier, and it might be claimed for him that Cromwell and the English regulars proved no match for him until his movements were interfered with and his army reduced to indiscipline by the representatives of the Kirk party that accompanied his headquarters.

On Hercules' return to Thebes he gave his wife Megara to his friend and charioteer Iolaus, son of Iphicles, and by beating Eurytus of Oechalia and his sons in a shooting match won a claim to the hand of his daughter Iole, whose family, however, except her brother Iphitus, withheld their consent to the union.

Underlying the new policy adopted by the Free State was the belief held, if not by President Steyn himself, at least by his followers, that the two republics combined would be more than a match for the power of Great Britain should hostilities occur.

The Turkish fleet, "adrift in the Archipelago" - as the British seamen put it - though greatly superior in tonnage and weight of metal, could never be a match for the Greek brigs, manned as these were by trained, if not disciplined, crews.

On one occasion he met his match.

On the other hand, he proved more than a match for his domestic rebels, especially after his great victory at Brobjaerg in Funen (1357).

But since the death of Witowt (1430) the military efficiency of Lithuania had sensibly declined; single-handed she was no longer a match for her ancient rival.

Dr. Goldschmidt obtained ignition of a cold mixture by means of a barium-peroxide fuse, which was set off by a storm match.

As is related in the legends, Quetzalcoatl came into the land to teach men to till the soil, to work metals and to rule a well-ordered state; the two gods played their famous match at the ball-game, and Tezcatlipoca persuaded the weary Quetzalcoatl to drink the magic pulque that sent him roaming to the distant ocean, where he embarked in his boat and disappeared from among men.'

Christiansen found, in an investigation of this kind, that the refractivity of the liquid could only be got to match that of the powder for mono-chromatic light, and that, if white light were used, brilliant colour effects were obtained, which varied in a remarkable manner when small changes occurred in the refractive index of the liquid.

In 1672 Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac, was named governor of New France, and in 'him the church found her match.

But he proved no match for his able colleague.

Soult had to move southwards to live, and the English were again more than a match for the enemy in front of them.

For protective purposes soles, which are edible, also lie buried in or on the sand which they match in colour, with the exception of the right or upper pectoral fin which has a large black patch.

Barbara brought him a dower of ioo,000 gulden and the support of the Magyar magnates, but the match nearly brought about a breach with the emperor Maximilian, jealous already of the Jagiello influence in Hungary.

A scholar and a linguist, he was a match for the diplomats of the Christian powers, against whom he successfully defended the interests of his country.

These however are exceedingly scarce, and when a number are required to match for a large garment, considerable time may be necessary to collect them.

It is not prolific, added to which it is very difficult to match a number of skins in quality as well as colour.

Her mother, supported at first by her husband's great rival and her own former suitor, Bacon, objected to the match, and placed her in concealment.

There are a school of navigation, and tobacco and match factories, the produce of which, together with timber and oats, is exported.

The discovery of gunpowder made small bodies of men, adequately armed, more than a match for great forces M,,ethods equipped in medieval fashion.

They fought with courage, but were no match for Roman discipline; it was, however, impossible to follow them into their mountain fortresses, nor were the difficulties of pursuit thoroughly overcome till after the battle of Culloden in 1746.

They wished, as we saw, to secure the hand of Elizabeth for the earl of Arran, a match which would practically have taken away the Scottish crown from Mary Stuart, unless she were backed by the whole force of France.

Murray knew that his day of influence was over, and encouraged by the promises of Elizabeth, who was remonstrating violently against the match into which she had partly beguiled and partly forced Mary, he assumed a hostile attitude and was outlawed (6th of August 1565).