match

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
    — My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
  2. A small wooden stick specially treated with chemicals to produce flame upon contact with another chemical, from the frictional heat produced by striking it against a surface, or both; other similar items made from chemically-treated paper, cardboard, etc.
    — He struck a match and lit his pipe.
  3. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
    — Ferrer his Taberd vvith rich Verry ſpred, / VVell knovvne in many a vvarlike match before; […]
  4. Synonym of taper, a thin stick used to transfer flame, as from tender to a candle. obsolete
  5. Synonym of fuse, a long wick used to transfer flame to an explosive device. obsolete
  6. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
    — He knew he had met his match.
  7. A marriage.
  8. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
    — She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
  9. Suitability.
  10. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
    — The seat to window match is excellent and there are half-size partition screens between bays.
  11. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
    — It were no match, your nail against his horn.
  12. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
    — The carpet and curtains are a match.
  13. An agreement or compact.
    — Thy hand upon that match.
    Seraphick Love
  14. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To agree; to be equal; to correspond. intransitive
    — Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
  2. To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to. transitive
    — His interests didn't match her interests.
  3. To equal or exceed in achievement. transitive
    — She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
  4. To make a successful match or pairing. transitive
    — They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
  5. To unite in marriage, to mate. obsolete
    — […]Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
  6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
    — to match boards
  7. To be an example of a rule or regex. transitive
    — The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.

词形变化

matches plural matches present,singular,third-person matching participle,present matched participle,past matched past matches plural

词汇关系

反义词
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下位词
fuse fusee Vesuvian Derived terms below
衍生词
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相关词
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词源

词源 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”).
词源 2
From Middle English macchen (“to marry; be paired with”), from the noun (see above).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa)bor.
Latin myxa?
Vulgar Latin micca
Old French meschebor.
Middle English mecche
English match
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”).
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