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Matching machine

Match \Match\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matched; p. pr. & vb. n. Matching.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.
    --South.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).

    Let poets match their subject to their strength.
    --Roscommon.

  6. To marry; to give in marriage.

    A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
    --Addison.

  7. 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.