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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MATCH'ED, pp. Equaled; suited; placed in opposition; married.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: provided with a worthy adversary or competitor; "matched teams"
2: going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities [ant: mismatched]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that two people are well matched, you mean that they have qualities that will enable them to have a good relationship. My parents were not very well matched... ADJ: adv ADJ 2. In sports and other competitions, if the two opponents or teams are well matched, they are both of the same standard in strength or ability. Two well-matched sides conjured up an entertaining game... ADJ: adv ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

adapted, allied, assembled, associated, balanced, banded together, biconjugate, biform, bifurcated, bigeminate, bijugate, bilateral, bipartisan, bipartite, bound, bracketed, collected, conformable, conjoined, conjugate, conjugated, connected, coordinated, copulate, coupled, dichotomous, double, duadic, dual, dualistic, duplex, duplicated, dyadic, fitted, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, harmonized, identical, incorporated, integrated, intimate, joined, knotted, leagued, linked, married, mated, merged, one, paired, partnered, similar, spliced, suited, tied, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-sided, undivided, united, unseparated, wedded, yoked