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Matching

adjective

1.

Being two identical. Synonyms: duplicate, twin, twinned.

2.

Intentionally matched. Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated.

Match

verb

(past & past part. matched; pres. part. matching)

1.

Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics. Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally. "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" Antonym: disagree.

2.

Provide funds complementary to.

3.

Bring two objects, ideas, or people together. Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin. "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

4.

Be equal to in quality or ability. Synonyms: equal, rival, touch. "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" , "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

5.

Make correspond or harmonize. Synonym: fit.

6.

Satisfy or fulfill. Synonyms: cope with, meet. "This job doesn't match my dreams"

7.

Give or join in marriage.

8.

Set into opposition or rivalry. Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off. "Pit a chess player against the Russian champion" , "He plays his two children off against each other"

9.

Be equal or harmonize.

10.

Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching. Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate. "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"

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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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