match

A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.

My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

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.

Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

Ferrer his Taberd vvith rich Verry ſpred, / VVell knovvne in many a vvarlike match before; […]

A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

He knew he had met his match.

Government […] makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.

A marriage.

A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.

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.

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.

To equal or exceed in achievement.

She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.

To make a successful match or pairing.

They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.

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 want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

To unite in marriage, to mate.

[…]Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king.

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.