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Matching

adjective

1.

Being two identical. Synonyms: duplicate, twin, twinned.

2.

Intentionally matched. Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated.

Match

verb

(past & past part. matched; pres. part. matching)

1.

Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics. Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally. "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"

2.

Provide funds complementary to.

3.

Bring two objects, ideas, or people together. Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin. "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

4.

Be equal to in quality or ability. Synonyms: equal, rival, touch. "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" , "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

5.

Make correspond or harmonize. Synonym: fit.

6.

Satisfy or fulfill. Synonyms: cope with, meet. "This job doesn't match my dreams"

7.

Give or join in marriage.

8.

Set into opposition or rivalry. Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off. "Pit a chess player against the Russian champion" , "He plays his two children off against each other"

9.

Be equal or harmonize.

10.

Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching. Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate. "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"

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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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