match meaning
EN
[mætʃ] [-ætʃ] 
UK US WMatch
- A match is a tool for starting a fire. Typically, modern matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper. One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by frictional heat generated by striking the match against a suitable surface.
FR match 
- NounPLmatches
- (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
- He knew he had met his match.
- A marriage.
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- Suitability.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- The carpet and curtains are a match.
- An agreement or compact.
- (metalworking) 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.
- A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
- He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
- (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- VerbSGmatchesPRmatchingPT, PPmatched
- (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
- Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
- These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
- (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
- His interests didn't match her interests.
- (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
- They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
- (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
- She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
- (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
- to match boards
- (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- It might be a question whether she was not Will's match in stedfastness, …
- The NBC reporter who came to the match on Wednesday told Lafferty "Come on, put up your dukes, we want to see some blood."
- We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- It's a good idea for boxers size up their opponents before their matches.
- For the radio audience he commentates on the match.
- Let's go over to Peter Smith, our commentator at the match.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of match in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "match" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.