match

Definitions

• (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• A marriage.
• A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• Suitability.
• Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• An agreement or compact.
• (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.