資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Match \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.

            No settled senses of the world can match The
            pleasure of that madness.             --Shak.

   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.

            No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his
            conduct.                              --South.

   3. To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.

            Eternal might To match with their inventions they
            presumed So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.
                                                  --Milton.

   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.

   5. To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit,
      or suit (one thing to another).

            Let poets match their subject to their strength.
                                                  --Roscommon.

   6. To marry; to give in marriage.

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

   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.

   {Matching machine}, a planing machine for forming a tongue or
      a groove on the edge of a board.