match

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Synonyms: march, batch, watch, patch, catch, hatch, latch, natch, ratch, mitch, gatch

Antonyms: march, batch, watch, patch, catch, hatch, latch, natch, ratch, mitch, gatch

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
   • My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
2. 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.
3. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
4. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
   • The carpet and curtains are a match.
   • a match made in heaven
   • He knew he had met his match.
5. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
   • He knew he had met his match.
6. Equivalence; a state of correspondence; a counterpart.
7. An agreement or compact.
8. A marriage. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
9. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
10. Suitability.
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. To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
   • 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.
2. To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
   • His interests didn't match her interests.
3. To equal or exceed in achievement.
   • She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
4. To make a successful match or pairing.
   • They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
5. 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.
   • to match boards
7. To be an example of a rule or regex.
   • The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.

Noun

1. A small wooden stick specially treated with chemicals to produce flame upon contact with another chemical, from the frictional heat produced by striking it against a surface, or both; other similar items made from chemically-treated paper, cardboard, etc.
   • He struck a match and lit his pipe.
2. Synonym of taper, a thin stick used to transfer flame, as from tender to a candle.
3. Synonym of fuse, a long wick used to transfer flame to an explosive device.

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