OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9705

match

/mæt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
partido
A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
Can you play billiards? / Yes, do you wish to have a match with me? / Let us simply play (a game) for pleasure. We needn't have a match, as I don't like to gamble.
My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
igual
Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
Government […] makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
He knew he had met his match.
complemento • correspondencia • emparejadura • equivalencia • pareja
Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
The seat to window match is excellent and there are half-size partition screens between bays.
combinación • emparejamiento • pareja
A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
The carpet and curtains are a match.
a match made in heaven
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 9707

match

/mæt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cerilla • cerillo • fósforo • misto • mixto • velilla
A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
Phrases
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Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 9706

match

/mæt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
armonizar • coincidir • combinar • complementarse • concordar • concurrir • corresponder • corresponderse • cuadrar • emparejar • empatar • empatarse • encajar • entonar • estar a juego • hacer juego • harmonizar • igualar • igualarse • machar • machear • pegar
To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
armonizar • combinar • complementar • concordar • cuadrar • emparejar • empatar • encajar • entonar • estar a juego con • hacerle juego • harmonizar • igualar • machar • machear
To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
His interests didn't match her interests.
There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
igualar
To equal or exceed in achievement.
She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
emparejar • hacer juego
To make a successful match or pairing.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that…
They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.