match

Meaning

Noun

1. A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
2. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
3. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
4. A marriage.
5. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
6. Suitability.
7. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
8. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
9. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
10. An agreement or compact.
11. 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.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
2. (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
3. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
4. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
5. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
7. (transitive) To be an example of a rule or regex.

Synonyms

equal

fit

game

correspond

suit

contest

competition

pair

mate

🧉

couple

👫

rival

agree

harmonize

bout

conform

tally

coincide

fit together

matches

matchstick

marry

suitable

unite

race

check

adapt

parallel

fight

jibe

peer

join

compatible

harmonise

matching

go together

accord

lucifer

harmony

comparison

compare

meet

be congruent

agreement

marriage

💍

friction match

fellow

fire

🔥

gibe

adversary

engage

Translations

allumette

fiammifero

match

Streichholz

partido

fósforo

lucifer

Zündholz

wedstrijd

cerilla

σπίρτο

fósforo

Spiel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mæt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: macche

Inherited from Old English: mæċċa

Cognate with Danish: mage

Cognate with Icelandic: maki

Inherited from Middle English: macchen

Cognate with Catalan: metxa

Cognate with Spanish: mecha

Cognate with Italian: miccia

In summary

From Middle English macche, mecche, from Old English mæċċa, ġemæċċa (“companion, mate, wife, one suited to another”), from Proto-West Germanic *makkjō, *gamakkjō (“partner, equal”), from Proto-Germanic *makô, from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, work”). Compare Danish mage (“mate”), Icelandic maki (“spouse”).

Sentences

His only wicket of the match was that of Mark Taylor .

This was the third match Mauresmo played during the tournament where her opponent retired .