Match

Definition

match 1 /mætʃ/ n ၁။ [C] ကစားပြဲ။ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ a tennis/wrestling/football match ❍ play a match against the former champions. ❍ SPORT ၂။ [sing] ~ for sb ; sb's ~ ဘက္ညီသူ။ တန္းတူ။ He's no match for her (at tennnis). ❍ She's his match (ie as good as or better than him) when it comes to chess. ၃။ [C] ( dated ) ေရွ႕သြား ေနာက္လိုက္ ညီျခင္း။ She made a good match when she married him. ၄။ [sing] (က) ~ (for sb/sth) တြဲဖက္ညီသူ။ တြဲဖက္ညီေသာအရာ။ လိုက္ဖက္ေသာ အရာ။ ဟပ္စပ္ေသာအရာ။ The new curtains are a perfect match for the carpet. (ခ) ~ (of sb/sth) တေထရာတည္း၊ တစ္ထပ္တည္း၊ တစ္ပံုစံ တည္း၊ တစ္သေဝမတိမ္းျဖစ္ျခင္း။ အဖက္။ I've found a vase that's an exact match of the one we already have. v ၁။ ~ (with sth) (က) (အထူးသျဖင့္ အေရာင္) လိုက္ဖက္သည္။ a navy suit and gloves to match/matching gloves ❍ The curtains and carpets match perfectly. ❍ These curtains won’t match (with) your carpet. (ခ) လိုက္ဖက္သည္။ ေရွ႕သြား ေနာက္လိုက္ ညီသည္။ a well-matched couple. ၂။ ~ sb/sth (to/with sb/sth) အဖက္ကို ရွာေတြ႕သည္။ Can you match this wallpaper? ၃။ (က) လက္ညီသည္။ မီသည္။ No one can match her at chess. ❍ The two players are well-matched (ie roughly equal in ability). (ခ) တုၿပိဳင္သည္။ တုမီသည္။ Can you match that story? (ie Can you tell one that is equally good, amusing, etc?) ❏ find/meet one's match (in sb) [ IDM ] ဘက္ညီသူ (သို႔) သာသူႏွင့္ေတြ႕သည္။ He thought he could beat anyone at tennis, but he's met his match in Peter. ❏ match sth/sb against/with sth/sb [ PHRV ] တုၿပိဳင္ေစသည္။ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ေစသည္။ Match your skill against the experts in our weekly quiz. ❏ matchless adj ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကင္းေသာ။ အတုမရိွေသာ။ အခ်ဳပ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ပေဂး။ matchless beauty/skill. ❏ match point n တင္းနစ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ စသည္၌ အဆံုးအျဖတ္ အႏိုင္ရရန္ လိုအပ္သည့္ ေနာက္ဆံုးအမွတ္။ ❏ match up [ PHRV ] ေရွ႕ေနာက္ညီသည္။ အၿမီးအေမာက္ တည့္သည္။ ကိုက္သည္။ The two statements don't match up. ❏ match sth up (with sth) [ PHRV ] ဆက္ၾကည့္သည္။ matching up the torn pieces of the photograph. ❏ match up to sb/sth [ PHRV ] (ထင္ေၾကး) ကိုက္သည္။ The film didn't match up to my expectations. match 2 / mætʃ / n မီးျခစ္ဆံ။ မီးျခစ္။ ထိကေတာက္။ strike a match ❍ a box of matches ❍ put a match to sth (ie set fire to it).

Examples

1. A box of matches
2. [light/strike a match] : He struck a match (=made it light) and lit the candles.
3. A football match
4. [play a match] : This is the third international match they’ve played in a week.
5. [win/lose a match] : They lost the Scotland match in the last five minutes.
6. The curtains are a good match for the sofa.
7. It was difficult to get an exact match for the paint.