match

English Online Dictionary. What means match‎? What does match mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English macche, mecche, from Old English mæċċa, ġemæċċa (“companion, mate, wife, one suited to another”), from Proto-West Germanic *makkjō, *gamakkjō (“partner, equal”), from Proto-Germanic *makô, from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, work”). Compare Danish mage (“mate”), Icelandic maki (“spouse”).

Noun

match (plural matches)

2. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
3. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
4. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
5. A marriage.
6. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
7. Suitability.
8. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
9. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
10. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

11. An agreement or compact.
12. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• competition
• game
• set
• tournament

Etymology 2

From Middle English macchen (“to marry; be paired with”), from the noun (see above).

Verb

match (third-person singular simple present matches, present participle matching, simple past and past participle matched)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
2. (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
3. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.

4. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
5. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

7. (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.

Antonyms

• (to be equal): (intransitive) differ

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mate

Etymology 3

From Middle English macche, mecche (“wick (of a candle)”), from Old French mesche, meische, from Vulgar Latin micca (compare Catalan metxa, Spanish mecha, Italian miccia), which in turn is probably from Latin myxa (“nozzle, curved part of a lamp”), from Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “lamp wick”).

Noun

match (plural matches)

2. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

   Synonym: (obsolete) spunk

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Bengali: ম্যাচ (mêc)
• → Hindi: माचिस (mācis)
• → Irish: meaits
• → Japanese: マッチ (matchi)
• → Jersey Dutch: match
• → Malay: macis, mancis
• → Pashto: ماچس (māčás)
• → Urdu: ماچس (mācis)
• → Welsh: matsis

Translations

See also

• fire, lighter, cigarette lighter
• strike (to strike a match)

Chinese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛːt͡ʃ⁵⁵/

Adjective

match

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) matching; well-matched

Synonyms

• 夾 / 夹 (gaap³)

French

Etymology

From English match.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /matʃ/

Noun

match m (plural matches or matchs)

1. (sports) match, game

Usage notes

Sometimes translated as rencontre (sportive).

Derived terms

• match nul
• Paris Match

Descendants

• → Ladino: mach
• → Romanian: meci
• → Turkish: maç

Further reading

• “match”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English match.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

Noun

match m (invariable)

1. match (sports event)
2. horserace (involving only two horses)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

match

1. imperative of matche

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English match.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡ʃ/ [ˈmat͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -atʃ
• Syllabification: match

Noun

match m (plural matches)

1. game, match (sporting event)
2. match (act of matching)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English match.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /matːɕ/, [maʈːʂ], /matːɧ/

Noun

match c

1. match (competitive event)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• matcha