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matchbox
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
matchbox \match"box`\, match box \match" box`\n. a box for holding matches. See first match, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.
WordNet
n. a box for holding matches
Wikipedia
Matchbox is a popular toy brand which was introduced by Lesney Products in 1953, and is now owned by Mattel, Inc. The brand was named as the original die-cast Matchbox toys, which were sold in boxes similar in style and size to those in which matches were sold. Subsequently, the brand would encompass a broad range of toys including larger scale die-cast models and various non die-cast lines such as plastic model kits and action figures.
During the 1980s, Matchbox started to switch to the more conventional plastic and cardboard " blister packs", that were used by other die cast toy brands such as Hot Wheels. The box style packaging was re-introduced for the collectors' market in recent years. Particularly with the release of the "35th Anniversary of Superfast" series in 2004.
Matchbox is a drinking game of skill played around a table. It can be played by any number of people. The aim is to throw a matchbox such that it lands on its edge or end.
"Matchbox" is a rockabilly song recorded by Carl Perkins in December 1956. It shares some lyrics with 1920s blues songs by Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Sam Phillips and Sun Records released the song as the B-side to " Your True Love". Although only the A-side became a record chart hit in 1957, "Matchbox" is one of Perkins' best-known recordings. A variety of musicians have recorded the song, including the Beatles.
Matchbox is an English rockabilly band that formed in 1971, and is still active .
Matchbox is a free and open source window manager for the X Window System. It is mainly intended for embedded systems and differs from most other window managers in that it only shows one window at a time. It is being used in the Maemo on Nokia Internet Tablets, the Neo 1973 smartphone based on Openmoko, the Vernier LabQuest handheld data acquisition device for science education, as well as on the XO-1 of the One Laptop Per Child Project. It has been replaced on later OLPC software builds by Metacity.
- A matchbox is a box made of cardboard or thin wood designed to hold matches.
Matchbox may also refer to:
- Matchbox (brand), a well-known brand name of die-cast toys, originally sold in replica matchbox packaging
- Matchbox (window manager), a window manager designed for embedded platforms
- Matchboxing or gutterboxing, the practice of displaying video with a distinct border around the edges of the screen
- Matchbox sign, a psychiatric symptom seen in delusional parasitosis and Morgellons
- Matchbox (drinking game) a game played using a matchbox
Music
- "Matchbox" (song), a rock and roll song written and recorded by Carl Perkins
- "Matchbox", a song by English Indie band The Kooks from their first album, Inside In/Inside Out
- Matchbox (band), a popular English pop/rock group, who appeared on five top 20 hits
- Matchbox Twenty, an American rock band
Usage examples of "matchbox".
The string of squarish vehicles crawled slowly by, small as matchboxes, the toy men on their toy camels like red spiders beside them.
How amazed Ernest would have been at the target of their antismuggling activities — blocks of crystal, about the size of a matchbox, that had made their way from Hong Kong via Cuba.
Soon after arriving there, he left in different clothes than he'd worn out of the hotel-taking a side exit rather than the back door, the only detail not to meet Ricci's prediction to the letter -and was then chauffeured off in the passenger seat of an unmarked sedan that pulled into the crosstown avenue's westbound lanes and clanked along seemingly on two cylinders, an authentic touch that allowed it to blend nicely with the crumpled matchboxes driven by the average motorist in this land of plenty.
The other was the usual jumble of a junk drawer - pieces of string, drawing pins, a broken nail file, a couple of half-used rolls ofSellotape, candle ends, torch bulbs, matchboxes and odd screws.
He waited till the porter had gone, drew out his gold cigarette case, selected a cigarette with due care, examined it minutely, inserted it with much deliberation in his holder, took his time about finding his matchbox and removing a match, finally lit the cigarette.
If you put a piece of hard coal no bigger than a matchbox in it, it would burn all day .
Everything, down to the silver matchbox on the marble table, the flowers in the gem-like Murano glass bowls, seemed to have its precise place and relation to everything else, as if the person who inhabited this domain had a highly developed mathematical mind.
I thanked the years of experience that had taught me how to keep matches dry by filling a full matchbox with melted candle wax so that the matches were embedded in a block of paraffin wax.
Matchboxes from various restaurants and bars were in the drawer with a bottle of K-Y personal lubricant.
My hands trembled so much that twice I missed the rough paper of the matchbox.
To begin with, the stones are sent in all sizes and shapes of parcel from matchbox size to crates as big as a tea chest.