match
/mæt͡ʃ/ noun A1- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- 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.
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics. · The carpet and curtains are a match.
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. · He knew he had met his match.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence; a counterpart.
- An agreement or compact.
- A marriage.
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Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Anne lighted the lamp, oversetting the match safe and using up half a dozen matches before her shaking hands could accomplish the task.
By it he laid the box of matches and the stump of a candle.
It’s brown, to match the dress.
I had gone on the quay to match a piece of mulberry cloth, when I met friend Danglars.
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