matching machine

Match \Match\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Matched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Matching}.]
   1. To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to
      rival successfully; to equal.
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            No settled senses of the world can match
            The pleasure of that madness.         --Shak.
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   2. 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.
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            No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his
            conduct.                              --South.
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   3. To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
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            Eternal might
            To match with their inventions they presumed
            So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn. --Milton.
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   4. 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. "Matching of patterns and colors."
      --Swift.
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   5. To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit,
      or suit (one thing to another).
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            Let poets match their subject to their strength.
                                                  --Roscommon.
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   6. To marry; to give in marriage.
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            A senator of Rome survived,
            Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
                                                  --Addison.
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   7. 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.
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   {Matching machine}, a planing machine for forming a tongue or
      a groove on the edge of a board.
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