match

«match» in Mova's school dictionary: a game between two players or teams: a football match — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (match, matches); verb (match, matches, matched, matching)

meaning for a pupil

1) A match is a game between two players or teams: a football match. tree →

2) A match is a small stick that makes a flame when you strike it. tree →

3) To match is to go well together or be the same: the socks match. tree →

4) To match things is to find pairs that belong together. tree →

5) To be a match for someone is to be as good as them. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: games counted or won (won + lost + drawn = played), matchsticks counted to make shapes (shapes × sticks each, minus shared sides), or pairing things up («match each number to its sum»). In safety: matches are only for adults; never play with matches or fire. In everyday life: a tennis match, matching socks, a perfect match.

examples

• The team played 10 matches and won 6. tree →
• How many did they lose? tree →
• A square uses 4 matches. tree →
• Match each number to its sum. tree →
• We watched the rugby match on Saturday. tree →
• Never play with matches. tree →
• Her hat matches her scarf. tree →
• Match the words to the pictures. tree →
• Dad struck a match to light the candles. tree →
• The new player was no match for the champion. tree →
• But he had met his match. tree →

note

Plural: «matches». «Match» (UK) = «game» (USA) for sports. A box of matches holds many matches. Maths: games: won + lost (+ drawn) = played. Trap: squares in a row share sides, so they need fewer matches (3 squares in a row need 10, not 12).

In the corpora

• A bot's knowledge may be out of date about matches, events and dates, and it may not search the web.
• Some apps identify birds from their songs by matching sounds to recordings they learned from; they can guess the wrong bird.
• Foley artists make everyday sounds like footsteps and rustling in a studio and match them to the film.
• The Māori are the first people of New Zealand, and the New Zealand rugby team performs a haka before matches.
• The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «match» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.