Word Finder - matched

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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

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Short for matched grip.

Both had matched missing buttons on their worn winter coats.

Xander matched her passion.

Rhyn yanked the dart free and looked from it to the small welt forming on his arm.  It matched the welt on his other arm.  He gazed at his other arm for a long moment then strode to Toby's bag.  Snatching it, he unzipped it and dumped its contents onto the ground.  Alongside Toby's 3DS, a pair of clean underwear and socks, and gamers magazine was a small shaving bag.  Rhyn opened it, surprised to find a syringe and two small bottles, one empty and one filled with wine-colored solution.

The convent members who managed the Sanctuary had replaced the wall Rhyn knocked down with a row of brown tents that matched their dresses.  Rhyn eased between two of them, aware of Kiki's fading pulse.  He set his brother down on the ground and looked around wildly, hoping they hadn't sent Katie's Ancient Healer, Lankha, home to the underworld.

The nervous system is remarkably concentrated in some beetles, the abdominal ganglia showing a tendency to become shifted forward and crowded together, and in certain chafers all the thoracic and abdominal ganglia are fused into a single nervecentre situated in the thorax, - a degree of specialization only matched in the insectan class among the Hemiptera and some muscid flies.

Poetry died first; the paucity of writings in verse is matched by their insignificance.

You see, she had an idea that the colour of our thoughts matched that of our skin.

They also sell out-door clothing at VERY good prices (matched only by the " never knowingly undersold " John Lewis shops).

Crimson painted toes and fingernails matched the gown perfectly.

The wooden table had one leg propped up by firewood, and only three of the eight chairs matched.

The glow at the back of his gaze matched the feeling in her breast, and she touched her lips to his.

Horace Walpole, who gives an unfavourable picture of his private character, acknowledges that Stone possessed "abilities seldom to be matched"; and he had the distinction of being mentioned by David Hume as one of the only two men of mark who had perceived merit in that author's History of England on its first appearance.

On this bloody sabbath the priests showed a devotion to their worship which matched the inaction of the fighting men.

Rome had been roused to unwonted fury, and the truculence of the rebels was matched by the cruelty of their masters.

Hadrian's policy in this respect was matched later on by the edict of the caliph Omar (c. 638), who, like his Roman prototype, prevented the Jews from settling in the capital of their ancient country.

In favour of seeing in the lateral trunks and their branches a vascular system, is the contractility of the former, and the fact of the intrusion of the latter into the epidermis, matched among the Oligochaeta, where undoubted blood capillaries perforate the epidermis.

These two lastmentioned types show features which can be, as it seems, matched in the Eudrilidae.

All his gifts were made available for influencing other men by his easy command of a style rarely matched in dignity and colour.

The cold cynicism with which he acted towards de Witt is only matched by the heroic obstinacy with which he confronted Louis.

Its gay plumage is matched by its sprightly nature; and together they make it one of the most favourite cage-birds among all classes.

The excellence of its form is matched by the beauty of its style, for Froude was a master of English prose.

The quantity of work which he turned out is enormous, for the fifteen large volumes which contain 'his ' Norman Conquest, his unfinished History of Sicily, his William Rufus (1882), and his Essays (1872-1879), and the crowd of his smaller books, are matched in amount by his uncollected contributions to periodicals.

It is more easily matched in the unsystematic utterances of a man of the world like Montaigne.

It was his function also to display and guard in battle the banner of the baron or banneret or the pennon of the knight he served, to raise him from the ground if he were unhorsed, to supply him with another or his own horse if his was disabled or killed, to receive and keep any prisoners he might take, to fight by his side if he was unequally matched, to rescue him if captured, to bear him to a place of safety if wounded, and to bury him honourably when dead.

The first three-andtwenty years of Sigismund's reign is the record of an almost constant struggle between Zamoyski and the king, in which the two opponents were so evenly matched that they did little more than counterpoise each other.

The speech provoked a storm of anger in the South, but the North was heartened to find at last a leader whose courage matched his conscience.

When it is remembered that at this time there was a great deal of tension between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants, who were fairly evenly matched in the duchies, and that the rivalry between France and the Empire was very keen, it will be seen that the situation lacked no element of discord.

Your drive, energy and desire to excel will be matched by comprehensive formal sales skills training and strong commercial acumen.

There was a bewildering maze of funds equally matched by complex application procedures.

However nothing has ever matched Maris Otter for the quality of the cask beer it produces.

Once trained, befrienders are " matched " with the person they will then befriend.

Color matched or gloss black for most japanese superbikes.

All new players at Jackpotjoy get a 100% matched deposit bonus up to £ 100.

Much rarer are pebbles of porphyry of a type that can be matched in the Permian breccia of Dawlish.

The inlet port is opened to its maximum matched and race flowed to 30 - 34mm carbs and manifolds.

This change is matched by a somewhat smaller turbo charger, which steps into operation a bit earlier.

About 96 percent of Spanish women use fragrances, a trend matched by Spanish men, about 85 percent of whom use cologne.

Most of these teachers were also found to hold absolutist conceptions of mathematics; images that matched their teaching styles.

Two 50 watt amplifiers and electronic crossover are matched to a 25mm soft dome tweeter and a 165mm long-throw bass unit.

Each farm was matched with a similar farm nearby without wolf depredation.

Internally the house benefits from brass halogen down lights throughout, and these are matched by brass dimmer switches and all electrical sockets.

There is a particular problem if you try to connect multiple diodes in parallel unless they are ' matched ' .

Four patients had allogeneic stem cell transplants, 3 from siblings and 1 from a matched unrelated donor.

Beatrice now extols free will as the greatest gift of God, most matched to Him, and most valued by Him.

Matched to the tissue matrix The density of the tissue matrix in the skin has implications for dermal fillers.

The driver record number matched the details held by DVLA for the offender which included her second forename.

These matched the odd notions going around in the more academic atmosphere of the medical fraternity in Alabama.

Cases were matched to the next three consecutive twin gestations attempting vaginal delivery without a prior cesarean.

Patients matched at baseline, except etodolac group had more severe gout.

The sequences recorded in Australia were extremely impactive, matched by a rousing score from David Greenaway.