match

IPA: mˈætʃ

noun

  • (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

verb

  • (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
  • (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
  • (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
  • (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
  • (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.
  • (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
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