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noun
1.
Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction.  Synonyms: friction match, lucifer.  "As long you've a lucifer to light your fag"
2.
A formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete.
3.
A burning piece of wood or cardboard.
4.
An exact duplicate.  Synonym: mate.
5.
The score needed to win a match.
6.
A person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect.  Synonym: catch.
7.
A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.  Synonyms: compeer, equal, peer.
8.
A pair of people who live together.  Synonyms: couple, mates.
9.
Something that resembles or harmonizes with.
verb
(past & past part. matched; pres. part. matching)
1.
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.  Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally.  "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"  Antonym: disagree.
2.
Provide funds complementary to.
3.
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together.  Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin.  "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.  Synonyms: equal, rival, touch.  "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.  Synonym: fit.
6.
Satisfy or fulfill.  Synonyms: cope with, meet.  "This job doesn't match my dreams"
7.
Give or join in marriage.
8.
Set into opposition or rivalry.  Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off.  "Pit a chess player against the Russian champion" , "He plays his two children off against each other"
9.
Be equal or harmonize.
10.
Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching.  Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate.  "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"



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... problem—that he must work it out himself. He did not sleep that night, and kept me awake most of the time with his twitchings and turnings. Once he was up, examining his face in the glass by the light of a match, but in the morning, after a doze of an hour or so, I found him outside, looking at the sunrise ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson
... enemy picked up in that section of the woods was wearing an iron cross; the equivalent of the French Croix de Guerre or the American Distinguished Service Cross. It showed that they belonged to the flower of the Kaiser's forces. But they were no match for the "Black Devils," a favorite name of the Germans for all Negro troops, and applied by them with particular emphasis to these troops and others of ...
— History of the American Negro in the Great World War • W. Allison Sweeney
... was right. Hal and Chester had hardly composed themselves to sleep when the flap to the tent was lifted and Stubbs' head appeared. He struck a match and looked ...
— The Boy Allies At Verdun • Clair W. Hayes
... ceremony of hanging Judas takes place in front of the church. A figure of Judas, the size of life, is filled with squibs and crackers, and is frequently made to bear a resemblance to some obnoxious inhabitant of the place. After the match is applied to the combustible figure, the cholos dance around it, and exult in the blowing ...
— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi
... same, apply a vigorous drubbing by means of a stick or sticks. If no result, apply foot with yet more vigour. If this fails, gather an armful of good dry straw, fix it cunningly under the animal's belly, apply match, and fly for your life ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest


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