Match

Definition: Match

Match

Noun

1. Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction; "he always carries matches to light his pipe".

2. A formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete.

3. A burning piece of wood or cardboard; "if you drop a match in there the whole place will explode".

4. An exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook".

5. The score needed to win a match.

6. A person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect.

7. A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.

8. A pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago".

9. Something that resembles or harmonizes with; "that tie makes a good match with your jacket".

Verb

1. Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints do'nt match those on the gun".

2. Provide funds complementary to; "The company matched the employees' contributions".

3. Bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project".

4. Be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents".

5. Make correspond or harmonize; "Match my sweater".

6. Satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams".

7. Set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other".

8. Be equal or harmonize; "The two pieces match".

9. Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "match" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Mining

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Match

Agreement

Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate.

Contention

Compe rivalry; corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana; boat race, torpids.

Discrimination

Verb: discriminate, distinguish, severalize; recognize, match, identify; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; separate the men from the boys; split hairs, draw a fine line, nitpick, quibble.

Equality

Verb: be equal; Adjective: equal, match,reach, keep pace with, run abreast; come to, amount to, come up to; be on a level with, lie on a level with; balance; cope with; come to the same thing.

Fuel

Brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock.

Identification

Verb: identify, recognize, match, match up; classify; recall, remember; (memory); find similarity (similarity); put in its proper place, put in its proper niche, place in order (arrangement).

Noun: identification, recognition, diagnosis, match; apperception, assimilation; dereplication; classification; memory; interpretation; cognizance (knowledge).

Imitation

Verb: imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.

Similarity

Verb: be similar; Adjective: look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate; favor, span.

Analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne; gens de meme famille.

Crosswords: Match

Dutch (competition, contest, game, match), French (competition, contest, fall, game, match, set), German (match), Swedish (contest, game, match, tie).

A bunch of hokey religions and ancient weapons ain't no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Load me up and light a match. (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

I'd see a good football match. Maybe get drunk afterwards (Operation Daybreak; writing credit: Alan Burgess; Ronald Harwood)

You know, your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, match only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

You're no match for me. Burn, traitor, burn (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Come to match my ragin' soul (Stoney end; performing artist: Barbra Streisand)

You try to match wits (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match (Brown Eyed Handsome Man; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Together match, yo we a perfect pair (Music; performing artist: Erick Sermon)

Peep baby boy style, hopin we match (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY)

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity! (references; author: unknown)

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? (references; author: unknown)

You're trailer trash when you lit a match in the bathroom, and your house exploded right off its wheels. (references; author: unknown)

Columbo: The Most Dangerous Match (1973)

Match Game 73 (1973)

Three on a Match (1971)

Set and Match Game (1968)

Match (1968)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Swedish Match AB: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts (reference)

• From the driving range : the three-hole match (reference)

• Sterling silver holloware: tea and coffee services, pitchers and candelabra, salts and peppers, desk sets and dressing sets, berry bowls, napkin rings, cups, tea balls and bells, trays, flasks, match safes (reference)

• Mix and Match Chinese Astrology: A Unique Fip Guide to Help You Discover Compatibility in Romance, Friendship, Family, and Work (reference)

• Match Wits With Mensa: The Complete Quiz Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Match News (reference)

• Match Weekly (reference)

• Paris Match (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cardcaptors - Power Match (Vol. 2) (reference)

• Nancy Drew: Nancy Drew's Love Match (reference)

• Three on a Match (reference)

• FMW (Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling): King of the Death Match (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Match Box Blues (reference)

• Perfect Match (reference)

• The Last Match (reference)

• Match (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• King of Fighters Dream Match '99 (reference)

• SNK vs Capcom - Match of the Milllenium (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Perfect Match Stroller (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Few places can match the beauty of a salt marsh at sunset. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Martin Bales, an NRCS employee, takes grass clipping measurements. This helps determine use of rangeland and ranchers can adjust herds to match available grass. Credit: Gary Wilson.

Boxing match held on board during Battle Fleet maneuvers off Panama in 1923. View looks aft toward the rear of Turret # 4, which bears a banner reading "U.S.S. Texas ... Come On Texas". Note Turret # 3 in the lower right, with a rangefinder and two 3"/50 anti-aircraft guns mounted on its top. Photographed by Holtwick. Credit: NAVY.

A boxing match, or Another bloody nose for John Bull. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman. Credit: Library of Congress.

What worries me is, I find no anger here toward Hiss to match his anger toward McCarthy. Credit: Library of Congress.

The advantage is with the man who has the match! / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress.

The royal milling match. Credit: Library of Congress.

Curling match on Van Cortlandt Lake - Scotland against America / Drawn by C.J. Taylor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Columbia and Shamrock I, a luffing match. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In general, it was a very well approved match.

The smoke of the burning match was seen

A match of four was arranged, Cranly insisting, however, that his ball should be used

Iwis your grandam had a worser match.

At last he lighted it and pushed the burning match into the dust at his feet

(For I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning glass

But I was more than a match for him on the surface

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Even with a good match, BMT does not always succeed. (references)

Few experiences match the drama of a convulsive seizure. (references)

Family members are most likely to have a complete match. (references)

Business

Additionally, costume jewelry brooches are frequently worn to match clothing and accessories. (references)

These institutes advise and match students that want to study abroad in foreign schools in various countries. (references)

Turkish importers may eventually seek payment terms from the foreign supplier that match terms given to local buyers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

In August 2000, the PVSV arrested three foreign journalists, allegedly for photographing a soccer match in Kabul. (references)

Iran

In October riots and demonstrations broke out throughout the country after the national soccer team lost a match it had been heavily favored to win. (references)

Guatemala

However, the men were released in October after a witness failed to recognize them in a line-up, and it was determined that the weapon the detainees were carrying did not match the murder weapon. (references)

Economic History

Spain

Usually, these incentives match EU financing. (references)

Belgium

Instead, they match up buyers and sellers on a commission basis. (references)

Switzerland

The cantonal government must match federal government commitments for each project. (references)

Human Rights

Belarus

On September 1, 20 activists from Zubr were detained for wearing the wrong colored shirts to a Ukraine-Belarus football match. (references)

Gambia

Youths in Bojang's neighborhood had organized a football match, during which a fight broke out and the youths began throwing stones at each other. (references)

Iraq

In 1997 members of the national football team reportedly were beaten and tortured on Uday's orders because of poor play in a World Cup qualifying match. (references)

Political Economy

CHINA

Interest rates on foreign currency deposits have declined since the beginning of 2001 to match the low rates on domestic currency savings. (references)

ARGENTINA

The de la Rua administration has re-established a "Buy Argentine" preference that allows Argentine companies to lower their bids as much as five percent to match foreign companies' bid offers. (references)

Cyprus

Some of the most important challenges facing Cyprus in the near future include the following: abolishing state monopolies and liberalizing utilities (including telecommunications, power generation and supply, air transport, and postal services); changing the structure of government subsidies to match that of the EU; completing the harmonization of the banking and financial sectors; lifting restrictions on land acquirement by non-residents; and increasing the level of competition in the private sector. (references)

Political Rights

Seychelles

The opposition parties have been unable to match the SPPF's organization and patronage, in part because of financial limitations. (references)

Uganda

During the initial recount, several of the ballot boxes were discovered not to be sealed properly, and the number of ballots in the boxes did not match the official tally sheet within each box. (references)

Uganda

For example, in Gulu there were reports that UPDF soldiers were able to vote even if their voter card number did not match their registration number; civilians were not allowed to vote if their numbers did not match. (references)

Trade

Romania

Generally, they match ISO and Western European Standards. (references)

Romania

The Fund may support joint ventures, which match U.S. investors with Romanian partners. (references)

Norway

This scheme was introduced to enable Norwegian exporters to match the financing terms offered by foreign competitors. (references)

Travel

Ireland

Both Irish and U.S. carriers can now operate both scheduled and charter air services directly to and from Dublin and to and from the U.S., provided they match these services on a one-for-one basis with direct Shannon flights on a yearly average basis. (references)

Worker Rights

Nepal

Others are economically active in a few small-scale and cottage industries, such as ragpicking, brick and tile works, quarries, coal mines, match factories and auto repair shops. (references)

Nigeria

Private sector minimum wages increased during the year to match the 2000 increase in the public sector wage scale; however, real private sector wages greatly exceed the minimum wage. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "match": a perfect match of colours ♦ advertising match book ♦ alphabetic match ♦ alphabetical match ♦ away match ♦ be a good match ♦ be a match for ♦ be able to match ♦ be smb.'s match in smth. ♦ benefit match ♦ Bickford match ♦ book match ♦ boxing match ♦ chess match ♦ colours to match ♦ Congreve match ♦ cricket match ♦ cup match ♦ draw a match ♦ draw the match ♦ drawn match ♦ final match ♦ find one's match ♦ floodlit match ♦ football match ♦ friction match ♦ international match ♦ kitchen match ♦ league match ♦ love match ♦ lucifer match ♦ Lucifer match makers'disease ♦ make a good match ♦ make a match ♦ man of match ♦ marriage match ♦ match ball ♦ match boarding ♦ match box ♦ match factory ♦ match game ♦ match head ♦ match hook ♦ match line ♦ match maker ♦ match making ♦ match mark ♦ match plane ♦ match plate ♦ match play ♦ match point ♦ match smb. against smb. ♦ match smb. with ♦ match splint ♦ match stick ♦ match stock ♦ match tub ♦ match up ♦ match up to ♦ match wheel ♦ meet one's match ♦ more than a match for ♦ needle match ♦ not to match ♦ parlor match ♦ percussion match ♦ phosphorus match ♦ play the final return match ♦ practice match ♦ preliminary match ♦ promotion match ♦ qualifying match ♦ quick match ♦ retur match ♦ return match ♦ runaway match ♦ safety match ♦ selection match ♦ set a match to ♦ she made the match ♦ shoot a match ♦ shooting match ♦ shouting match ♦ slanging match ♦ slow match ♦ slugging match ♦ soccer match ♦ sparring match ♦ spelling match ♦ strike a match ♦ sudden death match ♦ suitable match ♦ tennis match ♦ test match ♦ vesta match ♦ watch the match ♦ wrestling match ♦ you are no match for him!. Additional references.

Beginning with "match": match-award, match-awardwinning, match-ball, match-board, match-boarded, match-boarding, match-book, match-box, match-boxes, match-by-match, match-clinching, Match-cloth, Match-coat, match-cord, match-day, match-days, match-facts, match-fee, Match-finder, match-fished, match-fit, match-fitness, match-fixing, match-flame, match-girl, match-girls, match-going, match-guise, match-guising, Match-holland, match-long, match-make, match-maker, match-making, match-play, match-practice, match-race, match-racing, match-resistant, match-riddled, match-rigging, match-saving, match-sellers, match-slip, match-slips, match-stick, match-sticks, match-summariser, match-up, match-winner, match-winners, match-winning, match-wise, match-workers.

Ending with "match": after-match, big-match, boxing-match, eight-match, five-match, four-match, man-of-the-match, mix-and-match, nine-match, one-match, Paris-match, post-match, pre-match, re-match, seven-match, six-match, three-match, two-match.

Containing "match": half-match-fee.

Afrikaans

wedstryd (competition, contest, game), vuurhoutjie. (various references)

Albanian

martesë (cross, espousal, marriage, matrimony, noose, nuptial, splice, union, wedding, wedlock), martohem (espouse, get married, make a match, marry, mate, noose, splice), çiftoj (pair), ballafaqoj (confront, contrast, juxtapose), barazohem (equal), gjej shokun, harmonizoj (attune, harmonize, integrate), i barabartë (coequal, commensurate, compeer, equal, equiponderant, even, like, peer, uniform), kandidat për martesë, çift (conjugate, couple, couplet, double, doublet, duet, pair, span, twin, two, twosome), kundërvë (contradistinguish, oppose, play off, set against), ujdis (accommodate, agree, arrange, fit in, fit up, fix, jibe, repair, set), ndeshje (clash, collision, combat, competition, encounter, fight, fighting, jarring, play), njeri i barabartë me dikë, përgjigjem (agree, answer, answer for, correspond, rejoin, respond), përshtat (accommodate, adapt, adjust, arrange, assort, enable, fit, fit in, readjust, regulate, retool, specialize, trim), shkon me, shoq (fellow, husband, like), krahasohem (be compared). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظير (coordinate, counterpart, duplicate, equivalent, example, parallel, rival), ‏صنو (duplicate, twin), ‏زواج (espousal, getting married, marriage, matrimony, splice, union, wedding, wedlock), ‏زوج متسم بالتناسب, ‏تطابق (agree, coincide, coincidence, concurrence, consistency, correspond, correspondence, fitness, identification, identify, oneness, parallelism, self identification, symmetry), ‏تماشى (par), ‏قارن (associate, compare, confront, contrast, coupling, draw an analogy, liken, parallel, unite with), ‏لاءم (accommodate, adapt, adjust, agree with, be convenient for, be suitable for, befit, fit, suit), ‏باري (compare, emulate, play, rival), ‏ند (fellow, par, rival), ‏فتيل لإطلاق السلاح, ‏ناغم (attune, tune), ‏نسق (arrangement, array, assort, coordinate, echelon, gear to, layout, manner, mode, orchestrate, ordain, range, rate, regulate, series, system), ‏مباراة (competition, contest, game, meeting, race, test, tournament), ‏ماثل (look like, parallel, resemble), ‏كبريت (sulfur, sulphur), ‏كافأ (be similar to, compensate, gratify, make amends, measure up to, recompense, remunerate, repay, requite, reward), ‏كفوء (adequate, capable, competent, efficient, qualified), ‏لقاء (appointment, congress, encounter, get together, meeting, rendezvous). (various references)

Basque

poxpolu. (various references)

Bulgarian 

меря се с (touch), партия (clan, game, lap, part, party, side), подбирам (assail, cull, extract, go for smb., herd, pick, pick out, pick over, rail at, round up, select, winnow), подобен предмет, подобен съм (analogize), подобно лице, подходящ кандидат за женитба, подхождам (agree, approach, assort, become, befit, beseem, conform, do, fit, sit, sort), предмет който подхожда на друг, противопоставям (contrast, oppose), брак (dross, hymen, loss, marriage, matrimony, scraps, union, wastage, waste, waster, wedlock, write off), женитба (contract, espousal, hymen, marriage, union), излизам срещу, мач (game), състезавам се с (run against), отговарям (accord, account, answer, correspond, fit, fulfill, rejoin, replicate, reply, respond, retort, vouch), оразмерявам, кибрит, клечка кибрит, шпунтувам (table), фитил (candlewick, fuse, lighter, portfire), равен съм, среща (date, get together, meet, meeting, rendezvous), съответен предмет, съответно лице, съответствувам (accord, agree, concur, correspond, fit, parallel, piece on, quadrate), съчетавам (blend, mate, mix, unite, yoke), женя (couple, espouse, marry, wive). (various references)

Chinese 

賽 (competition, to compete), 進軍 (advance), 火柴 , 相配 , 敵 (enemy), 比賽 , 比赛 (Contest, Contested, Contesting, games, tournament), 比擬 (analogy, compare, comparison, draw a parallel, metaphor), 搭 (build, hang, join, take, take passage), 對手 (adversary, opponent), 仇 (a rival, an enemy, animosity, enmity, feud, hatred, mate). (various references)

Czech

zápas (agony, battle, bout, contest, encounter, fight, game, struggle, tussle, wrestle, wrestling), zápalka (safety match). (various references)

Danish

tændstik. (various references)

Dutch

lucifer (Lucifer, Satan). (various references)

Esperanto

matĉo (game), svati (match-make), parigi (couple, pair, unite), alumeto. (various references)

Faeroese

svávulpinnur, fríggja (match-make), dystur (game, tournament), biðla (match-make). (various references)

Farsi 

مسابقه (Chase-Chace, Competition, Contest, Game, Race), همتا (Counterpart), همسر (Associate, Consort, Fere, Helpmate, Mate, Partner, Spouse), چوب کبریت , نظیر (Analog, Analogue, Comparable, Like, Make, Rival, Tally), کبریت (Light, Lighter), لنگه (Bale, Doublet, Leaf, Mate, Pendant), وصلت دادن (Adjoin, Unite), حریف کسی بودن , حریف (Adversary, Foe, Opponent, Rival), زورازماءی , جفت (Couple, Double, Geminate, Jugate, Mate, Pair, Peer, Tandem, Team, Twin), جوربودن با, ازدواج (Hymen, Marriage, Matrimony), بهم امدن . (various references)

Finnish

tulitikku. (various references)

French

allumette, s'entremettre (match-make), match, apparier. (various references)

Frisian

lúsjefersprikje, lúsjefers. (various references)

German

Zündholz (matchstick), Streichholz (vesta), paaren (mate, pair, Wed). (various references)

Greek 

σπίρτο (spirit), ταιριάζω (befall, belong, beseem, click, comport with, fit, fit in, go with 1, go with 2, suit, to fit in with). (various references)

Hebrew 

גפרור. (various references)

Hungarian

gyufa (safety match). (various references)

Indonesian

pertandingan (bout, contest, event, game, tournament), korek api, jodoh (be a match, marriage partner, mate), berbandingan (in accordance). (various references)

Italian

fiammifero. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

匹敵 (comparing with, equal, rival), 一致 (agreement, coincidence, conformity, consistency, co-operation, union). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

マッチ (notch), しあい (bout, contest, game), きょうぎ (conference, consultation, contest, creed, discussion, doctrine, game, narrow-sense, negotiation, paper-thin sheet of wood), しょうぶ (bout, contest, game, iris, militarism, victory or defeat, warlike spirit), ひってき (comparing with, equal, rival), ひっちゅう (equal, hitting the target, written denunciation), ひりん (equal, nearby, peer, vicinty), ひるい (equal, parallel), うつり (change, harmony, impression, print, quality of a picture, reflection, return present, transition), かいせん (battle, cargo vessel, circuit, convolution, engagement, game, itch, lighter, line, mange, naval battle, outbreak of war, re-election, revolution, rotation, scabies, starting a war), いっち (agreement, coincidence, conformity, consistency, co-operation, union), はいごう (abolition and amalgamation, arrangement, combination, distribution, harmony, mixture, pseudonym of a haiku poet). (various references)

Korean 

성냥. (various references)

Manx

soyllaghey, sheshey (cohort, colleague, companion, consort, fellow, husband, mate, partner, spouse), mac-soylley (comparison, counterpart, fascimile, instance, replica, reproduction), keilley (of sense), foaddan, cloie (act, boil, bubble, charade, enact, event, extemporise, game, monkey, perform, performance, play, represent, skylark, sport). (various references)

Maya

thaab. (various references)

Norwegian

fyrstikk. (various references)

Occitan

luquet. (various references)

Papiamen

suaflo, suafel, lusafè. (various references)

Pig Latin

atchmay.(various references)

Polish

zapałka. (various references)

Portuguese

fósforo (spunk). (various references)

Romanian

meci (game, tie), împerechea (couple, geminate, mate, pair, unite). (various references)

Russian 

отождествлять (identify), подбирать под пару, подобранная пара, подгонять (customize, dovetail, goad, hurry, pepped, pinch, urge, wing), пригонять (fit, fit in, gear into, joint), противостоять (front, resist, withstand, withstood), брак (clippings, cuttings, marriage, matrimony, parings, refuse, rubbish, spoilage, waste, waster, wastrel, wedlock, windfall), женить