match
- noun
- /mæʧ/
- Specialized
- The forensic expert stated that the fingerprints were a perfect match to those found at the crime scene.
- an exact match
- find a match
- search for a match
Certainly the first zero can't have a match, right?
- Certainly the first zero can't have a match, right?
- Once it finds that match, then it knows where to make the cut.
- They actually at that point could tell that Michael's son was a match to the touch DNA.
Examples
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It's a DNA match for Roman Bridger.
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Previously, the cost of computing such matches for an entire image had eluded efforts to provide interactive performance.
Academic text (2011) -
Once it finds that match, then it knows where to make the cut.
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We do not have a match on all points of comparison.
Academic text (2013) -
There were no matches in the database...
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The samples themselves were as close to a perfect match as Worf had ever seen.
Fiction book (1992) -
If they get a fingerprint match on one of the suspects, it's over.
Fiction book (1995) -
Vocabulary knowledge was measured by counting the number of correct matches students made on the vocabulary measure.
Academic text (2012) -
If the metadata in the knowledge base is incorrect or incomplete, a match will similarly fail.
Academic text (2012) -
The readout began flashing the words DATA MATCH and a set of coordinates.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
A copy that is exactly the same as the original
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A golf contest where each hole is a separate game and the player who wins more holes wins the contest
A small wooden stick with a tip that lights when you strike it on something rough
- Specialized
A hand tool that cuts tongues and grooves in board edges so they fit together
A thin wooden or cardboard stick that lights only when struck on the box's rough strip
How Similar
- Specialized
- Jargon
- Jargon
Surface Forms
Etymology
Match for an exact duplicate comes from the idea of making a pair that 'fits' together, like two puzzle pieces, so a match is something that is the same or fits perfectly.