Definition of "match" in Englisch

noun

1. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.

   • My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

2. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

3. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

   • He knew he had met his match.

4. A marriage.

5. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

6. Suitability.

7. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.

8. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

9. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

   • The carpet and curtains are a match.
   • a match made in heaven

10. An agreement or compact.

11. (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.

verb

1. (intransitive) 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. (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.

   • His interests didn't match her interests.

3. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.

   • She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.

4. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.

   • They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.

5. (obsolete) 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. (transitive, programming) 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 device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.