English Dictionary

match

/mæt͡ʃ/

noun

(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.

I found a perfect match for my socks.

意味（1）

(sports) 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.

意味（2）

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

many a warlike match

意味（3）

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

He knew he had met his match.

意味（4）

A marriage.

意味（5）

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

She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.

意味（6）

Suitability.

意味（7）

Equivalence; a state of correspondence.

The seat to window match is excellent and there are half-size partition screens between bays.

意味（8）

Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

It were no match, your nail against his horn.

意味（9）

A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

The carpet and curtains are a match.

意味（10）

An agreement or compact.

Thy hand upon that match.

意味（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.