match

noun (STICK)

/mætʃ/

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B2 [C] a short, thin stick made of wood or cardboard and covered with a special chemical at one end that burns when rubbed firmly against a rough surface: a box of matches You should always strike a match away from you.Heaters and burners put a match to sth UK › to make something burnStarting fires

(Definition of match noun (STICK) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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