noun
- 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.
- 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.
verb
- To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
- To make a successful match or pairing.
- To equal or exceed in achievement.
- To unite in marriage, to mate.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
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Match is a 2-meaning word in English. Medium-length words often have several interesting anagrams.
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