Match
[mætʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction; 'he always carries matches to light his pipe'; 'as long you've a lucifer to light your fag'.
(noun.) an exact duplicate; 'when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook'.
(noun.) a burning piece of wood or cardboard; 'if you drop a match in there the whole place will explode'.
(noun.) something that resembles or harmonizes with; 'that tie makes a good match with your jacket'.
(noun.) a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete.
(noun.) the score needed to win a match.
(verb.) be equal or harmonize; 'The two pieces match'.
(verb.) make correspond or harmonize; 'Match my sweater'.
(verb.) bring two objects, ideas, or people together; 'This fact is coupled to the other one'; 'Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?'; 'The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project'.
(verb.) provide funds complementary to; 'The company matched the employees' contributions'.
(verb.) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; 'The two stories don't agree in many details'; 'The handwriting checks with the signature on the check'; 'The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun'.
(verb.) give or join in marriage.
錄入:厄普顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:斯坦利
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Rival, be equal to.[2]. Adapt, suit, fit, proportion.[3]. Marry, give in marriage.
艾伯纳錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Equal, mate, companion, contest, competition, tally, equality, pair
ANT:Superior, inferior, mismatch, oddity, disparity, inequality
埃米莉錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a piece of inflammable material which easily takes or carries fire: a prepared rope for firing a gun &c.: a lucifer.—ns. Match′-box a box for holding matches; Match′lock the lock of a musket containing a match for firing it: a musket so fired; Match′wood wood cut down to a size suitable for making matches: wood broken into small pieces; Quick′-match a match made of threads of cotton and steeped in various inflammable substances so as to burn a yard in thirteen seconds; Safe′ty-match a match which will only light when rubbed on a specially prepared surface; Slow′-match a match made to burn at the rate of from four to five inches in an hour for blasting &c.
n. anything which agrees with or suits another thing: an equal: one able to cope with another: a contest or game: a pairing a marriage: one to be gained in marriage.—v.i. to be of the same make size &c. to correspond: to form a union with.—v.t. to be equal to to set a counterpart to anything: to be able to compete with: to find an equal to: to set against as equal: to suit: to give in marriage.—adj. Match′able.—ns. Match′board a board with a tongue cut along one edge and a groove in the opposite edge their joining being called a Match′-joint; Match′er.—adj. Match′less having no match or equal: superior to all: peerless: unpaired.—adv. Match′lessly.—ns. Match′lessness; Match′-mak′er one who makes matches: one who plans to bring about marriages.
欧文錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of matches, denotes prosperity and change when least expected. To strike a match in the dark, unexpected news and fortune is foreboded.
吉纳维芙校對
例句/造句/用法:
- There is more in it than thou dost guess, Conrade; thy simplicity is no match for this deep abyss of wickedness. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I am not a match for you gentlemen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Might I ask you, Watson, to open that window, and then to put a match to the edge of the straw? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Poririer, a Frenchman, invented a machine for making match boxes of pasteboard. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- If the atmosphere were composed of oxygen alone, the merest flicker of a match would set the whole world ablaze. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Which side won the last match, Teddy? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Canler was a splendid match. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- My new fan just matches my flowers, my gloves fit to a charm, and the real lace on Aunt's mouchoir gives an air to my whole dress. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The latest improvement in chemical matches is the Vesta, which consists of small wax, or stearine tapers, with an igniting composition at the end, consisting of chlorate of potass and phosphorus. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In 1833 phosphorus friction matches were introduced on a commercial scale by Preschel, of Vienna. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- By other means, a swing blade, for instance, the matches were all severed from the block. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Perhaps I have thrown six--have you any matches? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Pray do not make any more matches. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But this one living grain in him matched the perfect youth in her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- These Italians were also very mannered and matched manners with the two we had collected before. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There they were, matched, ever afterwards! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Well, he would about have matched that woman's face, when she said, 'I forbid the banns. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the well-matched pair of battle-horses of this able Circumlocutionist. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I saw you matched against an Apollyon of a predilection; you fought a good fight, and you overcame! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He started for the Shivering Sand, at a rate that my legs (though well enough preserved for my time of life) had no hope of matching. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
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