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match

 
 
/mætʃ/ verb

Translation

BE THE SAME [I, T] If two things match, they are the same colour or type.
eşleşmek, uymak, tutmak, benzemek
I can't find anything to match my green shirt. Your socks don't match. Traces of blood found on Walker's clothing matched the victim's blood type.18912178
CHOOSE [T] to choose someone or something that is suitable for a particular person, activity, or purpose
eşlemek, ...ın/in uyanını bulmak, ...ın/in uygun düşenini bulmak
In the first exercise, you have to match the famous person to their country of origin.1891
BE AS GOOD AS [T] to be as good as someone or something else
uymak, gitmek, yakışmak
It would be difficult to match the service this airline gives to its customers.2178
match up phrasal verb
If two pieces of information match up, they are the same.
birbirini tutmak
Their accounts of what happened that evening didn't match up.2178
match sb/sth up phrasal verb
to choose someone or something that is suitable for a particular person, activity, or purpose
eşleştirmek, uygun olanı/uyanı seçmek
They look at your interests and try to match you up with someone suitable.1891
match up to sth phrasal verb
to be as good as something else
uymak, onun kadar iyi olmak
Nothing that he wrote after this point ever matched up to his early work.2178
(Definition of match verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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