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Matching   /mˈætʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
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.


adjective
matching  adj.  
1.
Having identical or closely similar appearance or properties; as, a pair of matching candlesticks.
Synonyms: duplicate, twin(prenominal), twinned.
2.
Harmonious and pleasing in appearance when used together; as, a matching skirt and blouse.
Synonyms: coordinated; color-coordinated.





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"Matching" Quotes from Famous Books



... gold Daisied with tents for a lovely mile. And a sea that edges and walls the sand with blue, Matching the heaven without a seam, Save for the threads of foam that hold With stitches the canopy rare as the tile Of old Damascus. And O the wind Which roars to the roaring water brightened By the beating ...
— Toward the Gulf • Edgar Lee Masters
... up and smiled defiantly, showing her small white teeth. She was still trembling; and remarking this, she stamped upon the floor of the porch, and became rigid. Her face charmed because of its irregularity. Her skin was a clear brown, matching the eyes and hair. She had the grace and vigour of an unbroken filly at large upon the range. And, indeed, she had been born in the wilderness, and left it but seldom. Her father's ranch lay forty miles from San Lorenzo, high up in the foothills—a sterile tract of scrub—oak and cedar, of ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... heart of man because these were great and heroic deeds performed by striplings. It is the bravery and firmness of the weak that challenges the highest admiration. This is woman's case: and when we see her matching her strength and courage against those of man in the same cause, with equal results, what ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler
... Matching the action of his hands everything in Mr. Leary seemed to start skyward simultaneously. His hair on his scalp straightened, his breath came up from his lungs in a gasp, his heart lodged in his throat, and his blood quit ...
— The Life of the Party • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... her hand and knelt beside her, and she looked her best, with all the soft lines matching the angelic beauty of her eyes. Then gradually her eyes closed, and she sank to sleep. For a little bit her breast heaved softly, and her breath came and went like a ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker


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