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matching

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈmæt͡ʃɪŋ//

The same as another; sharing the same design.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of matchpresent participle and gerund of match

adjective

  1. 1

    The same as another; sharing the same design.

    We bought a new sofa and matching armchairs.

    [...] the Class 142s and 143s have at times sported a number of advertising liveries [...]. The two cars of Arriva Trains Wales 142081 were certainly not a matching pair when photographed in 2005.

  2. 2

    That constitutes part of a pair with something else; complementary.

    I greet you across the miles and hold out my hand to you and wish you many sunlit days and matching moonlit nights.

noun

  1. 1

    The process by which things are matched together or paired up.

  2. 2

    A set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect, such that pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one to one.

Forms

plural
matchings
comparative
better matching
superlative
best matching
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).