(n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
(v.) A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
(v.) A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
(v.) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
(v.) A matrimonial union; a marriage.
(v.) An agreement, compact, etc.
(v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
(v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
(v.) Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
(v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.
(v. t.) To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
(v. t.) To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.
(v. t.) To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
(v. t.) To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.
(v. t.) To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
(v. t.) To marry; to give in marriage.
(v. t.) To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
(v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.
(v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(3) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(4) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(5) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(6) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(7) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
(8) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(9) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(10) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
(11) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
(12) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
(13) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(14) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
(15) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(16) This cDNA was obtained because of an identical 10 bp match with the 3' end of one of the GnRH primers.
(17) A positive correlation between PLA2 in SF and matched sera was found in both RA and OA.
(18) PAF was found in almost all carcinoma, although it was not detected in most of the matched, nontumor breast tissue samples.
(19) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(20) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
Mutch
Definition:
(n.) The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Luiz was at fault, misjudging the pace of Ramires's back-pass and, having turned his back on the ball, was left to look on in horror as Mutch ran through on the blindside and struck the ball past Petr Cech, making his 300th league appearance for Chelsea.
(2) Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Arsenal | Premier League match report Read more Pardew made a double switch at half-time, Brede Hangeland replacing Scott Dann, who was suffering the effects of a clash of heads with Morgan, and Yaya Sanogo coming on for the ineffective Jordon Mutch.
(3) Chelsea were 2-1 up, having recovered from the shock of going behind to Jordon Mutch's avoidable opener after 10 minutes and, Mourinho being Mourinho, now was the time to make a meal of the dismissal.
(5) The Liverpool goalkeeper tipped the ball over and Mutch headed the resulting corner, from Peter Whittingham, wide.
(6) Liverpool 3-1 Cardiff City (Mutch 58) Cardiff peg one back from a set pieece.
(7) Ben Turner played interference, illegaly holding Mamadou Sakho so he could couldn't jump to stop the ball flying over his head and Jordan Mutch was unmarked at the back post to head across the face of goal and into the bottom right-hand corner.
(8) Cardiff's Malky Mackay said: "Mutch came on and made a big difference, taking the game by the scruff of the neck.
(9) Mutch put them ahead in the ninth minute, after Campbell capitalised on Joe Allen's wayward pass, and although Liverpool equalised through Suárez, following a fine move involving Glen Johnson and Jordan Henderson, Cardiff were soon back in front.
(10) Cardiff threatened only once, midway through the first half, when a cross from Jordon Mutch enabled Campbell to get in a header that had Julian Speroni scrambling low to his left.
(11) The two managers agreed that Mutch's introduction, in place of Kim, had been key to Cardiff's improvement.
(12) A whole population cohort of 157 patients with idiopathic Parkinsonism, most of whom had previously been clinically examined by Mutch (1986a), were assessed to determine prevalence figures for dementia and examine the relationship between dementia, cognitive impairment and Parkinsonian signs.
(13) his industriousness results in Jordan Mutch getting the ball, but wasting possession with a wild shot from an impossible angle.
(14) The FA Cup finalists would be keener to pay around £8m up front and include a sell-on clause in any deal, and Norwich may pursue that option given their interest in Palace’s Jordon Mutch.
(15) Daniel Agger was left badly exposed by Mutch's slide-rule pass and Campbell skipped past the Dane before confidently beating Simon Mignolet.
(16) They created precious few chances, with Jordan Mutch's 27th-minute effort on the counter-attack standing out.
(17) Joey Barton curled a free-kick into the side netting and Jordon Mutch nodded wide from close range after a fine run and cross by Rémy.
(18) Mutch reduced the arrears when left unmarked at a Whittingham free-kick to steer a header beyond Mignolet.
(19) The champions also need to replenish central midfield and the way the 22-year-old Jordan Mutch ghosted past Ryan Giggs, now a greying 40, rammed home the point.
(20) Adam, having been booked 13 minutes before half-time for kicking Campbell, also caught Jordon Mutch with an elbow late in the game.