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# match

«match» in Mova's school dictionary: **a game between two players or teams: a football match** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (match, matches); verb (match, matches, matched, matching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A match is a game between two players or teams: a football match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#m1)

2) A match is a small stick that makes a flame when you strike it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#m2)

3) To match is to go well together or be the same: the socks match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#m3)

4) To match things is to find pairs that belong together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#m4)

5) To be a match for someone is to be as good as them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: games counted or won (won + lost + drawn = played), matchsticks counted to make shapes (shapes × sticks each, minus shared sides), or pairing things up («match each number to its sum»). In safety: matches are only for adults; never play with matches or fire. In everyday life: a tennis match, matching socks, a perfect match.

### examples

- The team played 10 matches and won 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x1)
- How many did they lose? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x2)
- A square uses 4 matches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x3)
- Match each number to its sum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x4)
- We watched the rugby match on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x5)
- Never play with matches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x6)
- Her hat matches her scarf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x7)
- Match the words to the pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x8)
- Dad struck a match to light the candles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x9)
- The new player was no match for the champion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x10)
- But he had met his match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/#x11)

### note

Plural: «matches». «Match» (UK) = «game» (USA) for sports. A box of matches holds many matches. Maths: games: won + lost (+ drawn) = played. Trap: squares in a row share sides, so they need fewer matches (3 squares in a row need 10, not 12).

### In the corpora

- [A bot's knowledge may be out of date about matches, events and dates, and it may not search the web.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/12/)
- [Some apps identify birds from their songs by matching sounds to recordings they learned from; they can guess the wrong bird.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/12/)
- [Foley artists make everyday sounds like footsteps and rustling in a studio and match them to the film.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons/6/)
- [The Māori are the first people of New Zealand, and the New Zealand rugby team performs a haka before matches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/9/)
- [The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «match» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/match/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.