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   Match, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Matching.]
   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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   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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   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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   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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   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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   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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   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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