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Match v. t. (past & past part. matched; pres. part. matching)

1.

To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal. "No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness."

2.

To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal. "No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct."

3.

To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against. "Eternal might To match with their inventions they presumed So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn."

4.

To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth. "Matching of patterns and colors."

5.

To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another). "Let poets match their subject to their strength."

6.

To marry; to give in marriage. "A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king."

7.

To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.

Matching machine, a planing machine for forming a tongue or a groove on the edge of a board.

Match v. i.

1.

To be united in marriage; to mate. "I hold it a sin to match in my kindred." "Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep."

2.

To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

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Etymology of 'Matched'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Matched" Quotes from Famous Books

... magnificence of his devotion, he gives to smaller souls a dangerous lead. The rigidity of Scripture exegesis belonged to this stately but imperfectly sensitive mode of thought. It passed away with the influence of the older rationalists whose precise denials matched the precise and limited ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

... opportunity knocks at our door but once in a lifetime. The fact is, opportunity never seeks us; we must seek it. What usually turns out to be one man's opportunity, was another man's loss. In this day one man's brain is matched against another's. It is often the quickness of brain action that determines the result. One man thinks "I will do it," but while he procrastinates the other goes ahead and does the work. They both have the same opportunity. ...

— The Power of Concentration • Theron Q. Dumont

... Anfisa had lived? That would have been a good joke! I should have liked to have seen how she's have settled him! She was the right sort of woman, your mother! a real plucky one, she was! They were well matched!" ...

— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky

... had been made to reach the spot, and of the singular fatality which had hitherto withheld success from all adventurers, though it might seem so easy to follow to its source a light that overpowered the moon and almost matched the sun. It was observable that each smiled scornfully at the madness of every other in anticipating better fortune than the past, yet nourished a scarcely-hidden conviction that he would himself be the favored one. As if to allay their too sanguine hopes, they recurred to the ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... visitors, had remembered the phrase, though her pronunciation of it, according to the standard of the Sorbonne, left something to be desired. The table and chairs, of heavy, shiny oak marvellously and precisely carved by machines, matched the big panels of the wainscot. The windows were high in the wall, thus preventing any intrusion from the clothes-yard on which they looked. The bookcases, protected by leaded panes, held countless volumes of the fiction from ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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