Crossword-Solution: MATCH 5 letters, 187 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Match	n.	Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
Match	v.	A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
Match	v.	A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
Match	v.	A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
Match	v.	A matrimonial union; a marriage.
Match	v.	An agreement, compact, etc.
Match	v.	A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
Match	v.	Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
Match	v.	Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
Match	v.	A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.
Match	v. t.	To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
Match	v. t.	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.
Match	v. t.	To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
Match	v. t.	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.
Match	v. t.	To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
Match	v. t.	To marry; to give in marriage.
Match	v. t.	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.
Match	v. i.	To be united in marriage; to mate.
Match	v. i.	To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
MATCH	anagram	MACHT

We have 187 clues for the answer “MATCH”

Clue	Answers
"#1 in dates" website	1 answer
"Concentration" goal	1 answer
"Concentration" objective	1 answer
"Three on a ___" (1932 Bette Davis melodrama)	1 answer
"___ Game" (long running game show)	1 answer
Spark that ignites a fire	1 answer
6-3, 2-6, 7-6, e.g.	1 answer
Alternative to a lighter	1 answer
Be accepted to a medical residency	1 answer
Borg-McEnroe thriller	1 answer
Box or maker lead-in	1 answer
CRICKET game	1 answer
Compare lighter alternative	1 answer
Dating app success	1 answer
Dating service discovery	1 answer
Dating service objective	1 answer
Dating site goal	1 answer
Davis Cup event	1 answer
Detachable stick in a book	1 answer
Fire igniter	1 answer
Fire starter, at times	1 answer
Fire wood?	1 answer
Game, set, ___	1 answer
Game; pairing	1 answer
Go Fish success	1 answer
Go together perfectly	1 answer
Golf game.	1 answer
Harmonious pair	1 answer
It can't strike, it can only be struck	1 answer
It could be made in heaven	1 answer
It gets hot when you strike it	1 answer
It's only useful when struck	1 answer
Item in a book	1 answer
Item torn out of a book	1 answer
LOOK alike	1 answer
Light, maybe	1 answer
Lighter Wimbledon event (5)	1 answer
Main event in the ring.	1 answer
Make a pair	1 answer
Marriage broker's suggestion	1 answer
McEnroe vs. Connors	1 answer
No thing for three	1 answer
Non-accommodation for three	1 answer
One getting fired after a strike?	1 answer
One of 20 in a book	1 answer
One of 20 in many books	1 answer
Operation at Wimbledon.	1 answer
SUITABLE pair	1 answer
Source of ignition	1 answer
Sports event in which teams compete to win	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

ERAA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with MATCH (5)

Ruggles was then very deeply engaged in the memorable _Darg_ case, as well as attending to a number of other fugitive slaves, devising ways and means for their successful escape; and, though watched and hemmed in on almost every side, he seemed to be more than a match for his enemies.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

The sick man heard his wife strike a match in the kitchen, and the light of a lamp glimmered through the cracks of the door.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Economic difficulties are attributable, in part, to severe drought in several recent years, costly but unsuccessful attempts to match Israel's military strength, a falloff in Arab aid, and insufficient foreign exchange earnings to buy needed inputs for industry and agriculture.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

The rain had been heavier here, and all foot and horse tracks made previous to the storm had been abraded and blurred by the drops, and they were now so many little scoops of water, which reflected the flame of the match like eyes.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Full of concern, therefore—but so conscious of her own right that it seemed scarcely an unequal match between the public on the one side, and a lonely woman, backed by the sympathies of nature, on the other—Hester Prynne set forth from her solitary cottage.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with MATCH (3)

I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981)

Jack McClelland Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made fore the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

Unarine Ramaru

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 118 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).