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match
1. n. (Sport) Partie.
When is the next football match?
2. n. Paire, correspondance, assortiment.
I'm looking for a match for this lone sock.
Considering your search criteria, these are your matches.
3. n. Mariage.
Tout Huntingdon se récria sur les avantages d'un tel mariage ; l'oncle de miss Maria lui-même, qui était un homme de robe, reconnut qu'elle aurait dû posséder trois mille livres sterling de plus pour pouvoir y prétendre avec quelque raison.
4. v. Concorder, accorder, assembler, convenir, correspondre, coïncider.
5. v. Apparier.
6. n. Allumette.
Do you have a match to light my cigarette?
anglais > anglais
match
1. n. (sports) 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.
2. n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
3. n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
He knew he had met his match.
4. n. A marriage.
5. n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
6. n. Suitability.
7. n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
8. n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
The carpet and curtains are a match.
9. n. An agreement or compact.
10. n. (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 o
11. v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
12. v. To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
His interests didn't match her interests.
13. v. To make a successful match or pairing.
They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
14. v. To equal or exceed in achievement.
She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
15. v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
16. v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
to match boards
17. n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
français > anglais
allumette
1. n-f. match (small flammable object)
2. n-f. shoestring French fry

Exemples de phrases

I want a match. Do you have one?      Je veux une allumette. En as-tu une ? He held his breath while watching the match.      Il a regardé le match tout en retenant son souffle. He struck a match, but quickly put it out.      Il craqua une allumette mais l'éteignit bientôt. I struck a match in the darkness.      Je grattai une allumette dans l'obscurité. I lit the match.      J'ai craqué l'allumette.

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