What does match mean?
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What does match mean? - The Free Dictionary
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match - The Free Dictionary
(he always carries matches to light his pipe as long you've a lucifer to light your fag)
(The two stories don't agree in many details The handwriting checks with the signature on the check The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun)
(The company matched the employees' contributions)
(if you drop a match in there the whole place will explode)
(This fact is coupled to the other one Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man? The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project)
(when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook)
(Nothing can rival cotton for durability Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents)
(Match my sweater)
(meet a need this job doesn't match my dreams)
(a married couple from Chicago)
(let them match their best athletes against ours pit a chess player against the Russian champion He plays his two children off against each other)
(that tie makes a good match with your jacket)
(The two pieces match)
(let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office The company matched the discount policy of its competitors)
Other vocabulary
m, m-1, m-1 rifle, m-theory, m. j. schleiden, m.m., m1, m2, m3, ma, ma'am, maalox, maar, maarianhamina, mac, macabre, macaca, macaca irus, macaca mulatta, macaca radiata, macaca sylvana, macadam, macadamia, macadamia integrifolia, macadamia nut, macadamia nut tree, macadamia ternifolia, macadamia tetraphylla, macadamia tree, macadamise, a, a battery, a bit, a capella singing, a cappella, a cappella singing, a couple of, a few, a fortiori, a good deal, a great deal, a horizon, a hundred times, a kempis, a la carte, a la mode, a level, a little, a lot, a million times, a posteriori, a priori, a trifle, a'man, a-bomb, a-horizon, a-line, a-list, a-ok, a-okay
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A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually called terms instead of words, although there is no consensus whether lexicology and terminology are two different fields of study. In theory, general dictionaries are supposed[citation needed] to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them. In practice, the two approaches are used for both types. There are other types of dictionaries that do not fit neatly into the above distinction, for instance bilingual (translation) dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms (thesauri), and rhyming dictionaries. The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a general purpose monolingual dictionary.
There is also a contrast between prescriptive or descriptive dictionaries; the former reflect what is seen as correct use of the language while the latter reflect recorded actual use. Stylistic indications (e.g. "informal" or "vulgar") in many modern dictionaries are also considered by some to be less than objectively descriptive.
The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.