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   Match, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Matching.]
   1. To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
   
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   No settled senses of the world can match
   
   The pleasure of that madness. Shak.
   
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   2. 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.
   
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   No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct. South.
   
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   3. To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
   
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   Eternal might
   
   To match with their inventions they presumed
   
   So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn. Milton.
   
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   4. 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.” “Matching of patterns and colors.”  Swift.
   
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   5. To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
   
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   Let poets match their subject to their strength. Roscommon.
   
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   6. To marry; to give in marriage.
   
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   A senator of Rome survived,
   
   Would not have matched his daughter with a king. Addison.
   
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   7. 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”.
   
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   Matching machine, a planing machine for forming a tongue or a groove on the edge of a board.
   
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