(metalworking) 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.
To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
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There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
But it would be hard to argue that the UK even comes close to matching the US in the sheer visible exuberance of Halloween.
Considering your search criteria, these are your matches.
I’m looking for a match for this lone sock.
Do you have a match to light my cigarette?
When is the next football match?
He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
to match boards
A senator of Rome survived, / Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
[...]Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
His interests didn't match her interests.
These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
Thy hand upon that match.
The carpet and curtains are a match.
It were no match, your nail against his horn.
She [...] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
Government [...] makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.