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Matching   /mˈætʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Match  v. t.  (past & past part. matched; pres. part. 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."
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."
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."
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."
5.
To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another). "Let poets match their subject to their strength."
6.
To marry; to give in marriage. "A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king."
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.


Match  v. i.  
1.
To be united in marriage; to mate. "I hold it a sin to match in my kindred." "Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep."
2.
To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.


adjective
matching  adj.  
1.
Having identical or closely similar appearance or properties; as, a pair of matching candlesticks.
Synonyms: duplicate, twin(prenominal), twinned.
2.
Harmonious and pleasing in appearance when used together; as, a matching skirt and blouse.
Synonyms: coordinated; color-coordinated.





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"Matching" Quotes from Famous Books



... this state of feeling that, on one of the most disagreeable of all disagreeable March days, she should go out alone for a long walk which had no definite direction nor object. There was a certain satisfaction in matching her restless mood with the restless weather, in feeling herself now gently buoyed along, now almost lifted up and borne away on the strong wings of the rushing wind. Great soft flakes of snow were falling, and yielding up their heavenly purity at the first ...
— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam
... must heal the wounds that she made, 'Tis she must be my physician. O parent mild, stand not my foe"— For his mother had whisper'd something low About "matching beneath his condition."— ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... always, were exchanging volleys of paper-balls, matching wits, singing songs, and passing time merrily. When President Halstead entered, with two of his associates, he was greeted by a thunder of tongues, hands, and heels of the standing students. He was the best-beloved ...
— The Young Pitcher • Zane Grey
... research project in history had begun to investigate the possibilities of either duplicating the fantastic drive some scientific minds on Mars had come upon—chiefly, it was concluded, by an improbable stroke of good luck—or of matching its effects through a different approach. Since it had been demonstrated that it could be done, there was no question that in time the trained men of the Machine would achieve their goal. Then the armed might of the Machine would ...
— Oneness • James H. Schmitz
... a sensation when she came down dressed for church on Christmas Day in a dark blue velvet jacket, deeply trimmed with silver fox, and a hat and muff en suite, matching with her serge dress, and though unpretending, ...
— That Stick • Charlotte M. Yonge


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