match
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1.0
- noun
- /mæʧ/
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fósforo
- We collected the waterproofed matches and stored them in a metal Band-Aid box.
He throws me a box, a box of matches from our club.
- He throws me a box, a box of matches from our club.
- Now she's lighting a match, according to the city.
- They brought they had brought matches from Riga, Latvia.
- It's like thousands of matches, just fire after fire after fire.
- They're so you can light a match off this kids fucking mouth.
- To me, a previous generation threw a lit match into a room filled with kerosene.
- Don't play with matches or learn how to keep the matches dry.
- Can you start a fire without matches or a lighter?
- I say you wouldn't by any chance happen to have a match.
- It's kind of inspired by our Ohio blue tip matches.
Examples
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Charlotte sat up and felt around for a match to light the gas.
Fiction book (1990) -
Lifting a cigar to his mouth, he strikes a match and lights it.
Fiction book (1991) -
We had to get matches to light.
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So what I'm going to do is take a match and strike it.
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I think you must have burned your finger with a match or a candle at one point.
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The red tip of a single match stuck out of the tiny drawer.
Fiction book (1990) -
They give you matches when you buy cigars, you know.
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One jacket pocket revealed a book of matches, a matchbox, and a cigarette package.
Academic text (2002) -
While she fidgeted with the matches to light the oil heater, the telephone rang.
Fiction book (1990) -
We used a match to ignite the campfire after the sun set.
Synonyms
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1.3
A small thing that makes a flame to light cigarettes or candles
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1.0
A short thin stick of wood you use to light a fire
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2.7
A wooden match you can strike on any rough surface to light stoves
A small wooden stick with a tip that lights when you strike it on something rough
A thin wooden match used to light candles or small fires
A thin wooden or cardboard stick that lights only when struck on the box's rough strip
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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5.6
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 Effective
Surface Forms
Etymology
Match for the small stick that makes fire comes from an old word for wick, the small piece used to burn and give light, so a match is what you strike to start a flame.