match
/mæt͡ʃ/
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; A small wooden stick specially treated with chemicals to produce flame upon contact with another chemical, from the frictional heat produced by striking it against a surface, or both; other similar items made from chemically-treated paper, cardboard, etc
- plural
- matches
Meanings
- 1
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
Did you watch the match?
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
It's the football match tomorrow.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
A small wooden stick specially treated with chemicals to produce flame upon contact with another chemical, from the frictional heat produced by striking it against a surface, or both; other similar items made from chemically-treated paper, cardboard, etc
- 3
Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority
- 4
A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics
- 5
Equality of conditions in contest or competitionrare
- 6
A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.; Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparisonrare
- 7
A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.; Equivalence; a state of correspondence; a counterpartrare