Meaning

• A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

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

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

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

  "He knew he had met his match."

• A marriage.

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

• Suitability.

• Equivalence; a state of correspondence.

• Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

• A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

  "The carpet and curtains are a match."

• An agreement or compact.

• A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.

Meaning

• To agree; to be equal; to correspond.

  "Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together."

• To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.

  "His interests didn't match her interests."

• To make a successful match or pairing.

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

• To equal or exceed in achievement.

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

• To unite in marriage, to mate.

• To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

  "to match boards"