(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.
Natch
Definition:
(n.) The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sacs of the upper half of the everted intestine taken from bile fistula rats were incubated in a buffered solution containing mono-olein, (14)C-labelled oleic acid and bile salt (sodium taurocholate (NaTch) in concentrations exceeding the critical micellar concentration).2.
(2) ALICE TAYLOR Developer Major cities will look like Tokyo: whole families will live in tiny, boxlike apartments, with gadgets in every corner (including a multi-material 3D printer, natch) and grandparents living in - without functioning pensions, they will have to.
(3) Updated at 11.21pm BST 11.19pm BST QPR have signed Niko Kranjcar and Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Tom Carroll, Aitch confirms through his car window, natch.
(4) And while this being Beyoncé , the trainers are Isabel Marant (natch) and the flats by Charlotte Olympia, her look is still recognisably the staple wardrobe of the exhausted new mother.
(5) There were other eye-rolling moments during the weekend, like the conversation – over quinoa porridge, natch – about the merits of buckwheat pillows (consensus – they’re good); or the chorus of “Is it vegan?
(6) Fisheries minster Beynon another to announce he's leaving Govt (voluntarily natch).
(7) At 37 degrees C incubation temperature increasing the NaTch concentration enhanced both uptake and esterification.
(8) He's aided by slimy counsellor Petyr Baelish (Aidan Gillen – natch) and eunuch adviser Varys (Conleth Hill) who, happily, has achieved closure over the trauma around his missing crown jewels.
(9) Adding whole rat bile caused uptake to decrease at all NaTch concentrations but had only a slight and variable effect on esterification.3.
(10) I went on to do a PhD (Theories of Pleasure, natch) but I never finished it as the money ran out.
(11) Rachel Mayeri , who makes films for a chimp audience (using human actors dressed as chimps, natch), goes further: wildlife documentaries are yet more pernicious.
(12) Ben Wright (@wrightben) @ lengeldavid Unbelievable hitting by Sandoval but the groundwork being done by Pagan and Scutaro (both ex-Mets, natch), going deep into ABs.
(13) Meanwhile, those still wearing bras became "lingerie-dependent", sagging to the point of (natch) needing bras.
(14) lusoriae crossed the dorsal face of esophagus between the 4th and 2nd cervical vertebrae where they provoked at neat natch.
(15) The women who decline to call themselves feminist but are nevertheless labelled feminist by other people, usually, natch, feminists.