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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Matchless \Match"less\, a. [Cf. Mateless.]
Having no equal; unequaled. ``A matchless queen.''
--Waller.Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited. [Obs.] ``Matchless ears.''
--Spenser. [1913 Webster] -- Match"less*ly, adv. -- Match"less*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"peerless," 1520s, from match (n.2) + -less. Related: Matchlessly; matchlessness.\n
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having no match; without equal. 2 Having no mate.
WordNet
adj. eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled]
Wikipedia
Matchless is one of the oldest marques of British motorcycles, manufactured in Plumstead, London, between 1899 and 1966. A wide range of models were produced under the Matchless name, ranging from small two-strokes to 750 cc four-stroke twins. Matchless had a long history of racing success; a Matchless ridden by Charlie Collier won the first single-cylinder race in the first Isle of Man TT in 1907.
In 1938, Matchless and AJS became part of Associated Motorcycles (AMC), both companies producing models under their own marques. During the amalgamations that occurred in the British motorcycle industry in the 1960s, the Matchless four-stroke twin was replaced with the Norton twin, ending a long history of independent production. By 1967, the Matchless singles had ceased production.
Matchless (also known as Mission Top Secret) is a 1967 Italian science fiction- comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It parodies the spy film genre.
Matchless was a British motorcycle manufacturer from 1899 to 1966, with phased final-sales ending by 1970.
Matchless may also refer to:
- Matchless Amplifiers, the American guitar amplifier company
- British Royal Navy ships named HMS Matchless
- USC&GS Matchless, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ship
- Matchless (pleasure yacht), vessel which sank in 1894 in Morecambe Bay, England
- Matchless (film), the Italian Science Fiction comedy
The Matchless was a British pleasure yacht which sank in Morecambe Bay, off north west England, in 1894 with the loss of 25 lives.
Usage examples of "matchless".
Nothing could have been more inacceptable to the Count of Poitou than to exchange the opulent southern provinces in which he had been bred, with their salubrious climate, lively culture, vast pleasure grounds, and matchless high places remote from the scrutiny of London and Rouen, for the counties of the young king north of the Loire.
The biographer of the troubadours relates that the king restored to him his castle of Hautefort, and this he was moved to do as requital for a matchless elegy which the poet composed on the heir of the Plantagenets.
Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood, She who upheld me and I, in the midmost of Egdon together, Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather, Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued.
Without the least hesitation I determined to appropriate the DUNCAN, a matchless vessel, able to outdistance the swiftest ships in the British Navy.
Ellie, newly an orphan, was leaning her head on a table, bemoaning her poverty and explaining to the audience all the prequel plot about being left the Matchless Mine.
But all the painful experience that I then gained did not any way shake my belief in Satyagraha or in the possibility of that matchless force being utilised in India.
Senior Trader Shifty Stuart occasionally spat from the cud of tobacco in his cheek into the river, but be did not bother to look at the water, nor did he look back to the west, at Traderstown, which the vessel had just left His eyes were for the east, for Tworivertown, where he would shortly make landfall with his cargo of furs, hides, fine horn-bows, matchless felts and blankets of nomad weave, beautifully worked leather items and a vast assortment of oddments obtained by the far-ranging horse-nomads of the transriverine plains by trade or warfare from other folk farther west, south or north.
He signalized his youth by deeds of valor, and displayed a matchless dexterity, as well as strength, in every martial exercise, and even in the less honorable contests of the Olympian games.
A small velvet beret of the same deep blue was perched at a jaunty angle on her immaculate silver hair, and she wore the McGill emeralds and a long rope of matchless pearls.
Witch Kingdom and, even with the matchless roads built and maintained by the army, the remainder of a full month needs must be ridden out before the southwesternmost principate, on the eastern and northern shores of the brackish River-Sea, was reached.
From the northernmost pointNohtohpolisburk in the Principate of Kuhmbuhluhntwenty days of hard riding would lead to the southern border, unmarked amidst the treacherous salt fens beyond which lay the legendary evil Witch Kingdom and, even with the matchless roads built and maintained by the army, the remainder of a full month needs must be ridden out before the southwesternmost principate, on the eastern and northern shores of the brackish River Sea, was reached.
After his will had been made legal and all in attendance had acclaimed Henry as king, so passed away that great lord, who had by his efforts united Wendar and Varre and, being first among equals and matchless in all those virtues governing mind and body, stood as the greatest of all regnants reigning in all the lands.
La beaute du diable, no doubt, to Anglo-Saxon eyes, with that skin of incomparable texture and whiteness relieved by a heavily coiled crown of living bronze, the crimson insolence of that matchless mouth, those luminous and changeable eyes so like the sea, whose green melted into blue with the swiftness of thought, whose blue at times as swiftly shaded into stormy purple-black: but however bizarre and barbaric, beauty none the less, and under the most meticulous examination indisputable.
But of course it wasn't an act of love: it was a mere athletic event, two matchless discoboli moving in tandem through the prescribed and preordained rituals of their specialty, and what did love have to do with that ?
He is, in very truth, the doughtiest champion in all this fair country, matchless at any and every weapon, ahorse or a-foot, in sooth a very Ajax, Achilles, Hector, Roland and Oliver together and at once, one and indivisible, aye--by Cupid a very paladin!