Crossword clues for matched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Match \Match\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matched; p. pr. & vb. n. Matching.]
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To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness.
--Shak. -
To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.
No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct.
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To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
Eternal might To match with their inventions they presumed So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.
--Milton. To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth. ``Matching of patterns and colors.''
--Swift.-
To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
Let poets match their subject to their strength.
--Roscommon. -
To marry; to give in marriage.
A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
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To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
Matching machine, a planing machine for forming a tongue or a groove on the edge of a board.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: match)
WordNet
adj. provided with a worthy adversary or competitor; "matched teams"
going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities [ant: mismatched]
Wikipedia
Matched, by Allyson Braithwaite Condie, is the first novel in the Matched trilogy. The novel is a dystopian YA novel about a tightly-controlled society in which young people are "matched" with their life partners at the age of 17. The main character is seventeen-year-old Cassia Reyes, who is Matched with her best friend, Xander Carrow. However, when viewing the information for her Match, the picture of another young man - Ky Markham, an acquaintance outcast at her school - is flashed across the screen. As Cassia attempts to figure out the source of the mishap, she finds herself conflicted about whether her Match is appropriate for her - and whether the Society is all that it seems to be. This book is followed by Crossed and Reached.
Usage examples of "matched".
Vuitton clutch hung from her elbow and she pushed an expensive Bertini stroller accessorized with an infant whose blond hair matched her own.
The long Aenean stride readily matched wagons bumping and groaning over roadless wrinkled hills.
She matched the antique ambience of the place almost to a T, the only anachronistic feature being the optical fiber running from the desk to her datajack.
But it is matched by an iron sense of responsibility and a fierce drive to victory which no Bolo could excel.
And they turned with sly, buckish grins to glance at Whitney, whose face now matched the wheezing red coals in the hearth beside her.
Her features took on a cruel malice that matched the snakiness of Chun Laro, the cold, merciless glare of Li Hoang.
Would any of you care to explain how an officer who was coinless managed to purchase a large house, with a stable, costing over fifty golds, a matched team and a carriage, and still come up with more golds than twice his pay?
Early next morning I wrote to her father that his daughter had resolved not to leave her lover, who was only slightly wounded, that they were in perfect safety and under the protection of the law at Chamberi, and finally that having heard their story, and judging them to be well matched, I could only approve of the course they had taken.
The number decals on their scarred helmets rarely matched the numbers on their jerseys.
Whenever a new differentiation is not matched by a new and equal integration, whenever there is negation without preservation, the result is pathology of one sort or another, a pathology that, if severe enough, evolution sets about to erase in earnest.
As expected, the basic floor plan matched the other schools a main dojo to my right, a smaller one lined with specialized training equipment to my left.
Like those of a true Floridian, her tanned legs were bare, and her espadrilles of colored straw matched her dress.
Duchess, timidly, her upraised face and Paris hat well matched by the gay poinsettias, the delicate eucharis and arums with which the table was now covered.
She did not wear a veil, but Hamid-Jones was relieved to note that she had curbed her progressive ideas to the extent of covering her hair with a dark foulard scarf whose pattern matched the overblouse.
Beau was handsomely garbed in a darkly subdued navy-and-gray plaid frock coat, white shirt and cravat, high-buttoned waistcoat that matched the gray in his coat, and darker gray trousers with straps fastened beneath black ankle-boots.