match

(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

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

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

A marriage.

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

Suitability.

Equivalence; a state of correspondence.

Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

An agreement or compact.

(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.