Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
match .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities
- adjective provided with a worthy adversary or competitor
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Examples
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Detectives were interested because the name matched one they already had on a short list of potential suspects.
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Detectives were interested because the name matched one they already had on a short list of potential suspects.
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Detectives were interested because the name matched one they already had on a short list of potential suspects.
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If the keyword matched the title of the web page or the domain name, that page would go higher in the rankings.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Detectives were interested because the name matched one they already had on a short list of potential suspects.
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Detectives were interested because the name matched one they already had on a short list of potential suspects.
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If the keyword matched the title of the web page or the domain name, that page would go higher in the rankings.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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It showed that the term matched for his "Job" and Tamar wondered if we hired this guy, who was from Edinburgh.
Cartoon Barry Blog 2009
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Subjects had to respond with a button press as to whether or not the label matched the image.
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Close to half of our balance sheet, if not more, was what we called the matched book.
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