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match
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction; "he always carries matches to light his pipe" [syn: lucifer , friction match ] a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A match is a tool for starting a fire. Typically, modern matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper . One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by frictional heat generated by striking the match against a suitable surface. Wooden ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stick for striking fire," late 14c., macche , "wick of a candle or lamp," from Old French meiche "wick of a candle," from Vulgar Latin *micca/*miccia (source also of Catalan metxa , Spanish mecha , Italian miccia ), probably ultimately from Latin myxa ...
Usage examples of match.
Slight imperfections in the match were negotiated by a jostling crowd of donor or acceptor molecules.
Vuitton clutch hung from her elbow and she pushed an expensive Bertini stroller accessorized with an infant whose blond hair matched her own.
I came to you in most serious earnest, imagining, as I find true, that your son had never dared to acquaint you with a match so much inferior to him in point of fortune, though the reputation of the lady will suffer it no longer to remain a secret.
The long Aenean stride readily matched wagons bumping and groaning over roadless wrinkled hills.
But no contestant was allowed to judge, so the third was a substitute, the Aikido judge, representing Judo for this one match.
Takao had planned to take the second Aikido match, but with Hiroshi now certain to appear, that was out.
Aye, and Alienor could certainly benefit from a match with a man nigh as stubborn as herself.
In examining the first attention, the new seers realized that all organic beings, except man, quiet down their agitated trapped emanations so that those emanations can align themselves with their matching ones outside.
When she was attired in a grey alpaca dress with a cape to match, a blue straw bonnet resting on her brown hair, and a pair of black buttoned boots on her feet, she went to the top drawer of the chest and took out the long envelope and looked at it.
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 to bring the anima, there must be a special pattern of births leading to a woman who matches the magical nature of our world.
They let their separate selves burn away like so many thousands of matches, annihilating themselves in an all-consuming transcendence.
It looked as if we were walking right against the towering ice wall, but when we were within a yard or two of it a narrow cleft, only eighteen inches wide, and wonderfully masked by an ice column, showed to the left, and into this we squeezed ourselves, the entrance by which we had come appearing to close up instantly we had gone a pace or two, so perfectly did the ice walls match each other.
It seemed to me to be such an ordinary discovery, until I learned that some of the granules were identified by optical crystallography to be travertine aragonite that had a spectral signature matching limestone samples taken from ancient Jerusalem tombs.
Impoverished Argali could never match such an offer: shovels and awls forged from fine metals, stacks of dried firewood, golden bridle bells, dewhoney and molasses, dried rose-leeks, cobberwheat, tri-grains, and reedflour that poured through your fingers like powdered rubies.