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Game vs. Match: Know the Difference

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By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
Game is a structured form of play or sport, often for entertainment, Match refers to a contest or sports event between two teams or individuals.
Game vs. Match

Key Differences

Game generally refers to any structured form of play, often for enjoyment or skill development. Match specifically denotes a sports contest or competitive event between two or more players or teams.
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In a game, rules and objectives are set to challenge players' skills or strategy. In a match, these rules and objectives determine the competition, often with a focus on winning or achieving a specific score.
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While games can be solo activities or involve multiple participants, matches are inherently competitive, involving direct confrontation between opponents.
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A game can be part of a larger event or series, as in video games or board games. A match often refers to a single instance within a sport, such as a tennis match or football match.
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The term game can apply to a wide range of activities, including non-physical ones like card games. In contrast, match is predominantly used in the context of sports and physical contests.
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Comparison Chart

Definition

Structured form of play or sport
Contest or sports event between teams/individuals
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Focus

Enjoyment, skill development
Competition, winning
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Nature

Can be solo or multiplayer
Inherently competitive, involves opponents
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Usage in Sports

Part of a series or standalone activity
Specific contest within a sport
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Context

Broad, includes physical and non-physical activities
Mostly sports and physical contests
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Game and Match Definitions

Game

Game refers to a playful activity with rules and objectives.
They played a board game to pass the time.
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Match

In a romantic sense, match refers to a suitable partner.
They are a perfect match for each other.
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Game

Game can also mean a competitive sport or activity.
Soccer is a popular game worldwide.
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Match can also denote a short, slender piece of wood used for lighting a fire.
He lit a match to start the campfire.
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Game signifies a particular instance or round of play in sports.
She won the first game of the tennis set.
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Match

One that is exactly like another or a counterpart to another
Is there a match for this glove in the drawer?.
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Game

An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime
Party games.
Word games.
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Match

One that is like another in one or more specified qualities
He is John's match for bravery.
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Game

A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules
The game of basketball.
The game of gin rummy.
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Match

One that is able to compete equally with another
The boxer had met his match.
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Game

A single instance of such an activity
We lost the first game.
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Match

One that closely resembles or harmonizes with another
The napkins were a nice match for the tablecloth.
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Games An organized athletic program or contest
Track-and-field games.
Took part in the winter games.
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Match

A pair, each one of which resembles or harmonizes with the other
The colors were a close match.
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Game

A period of competition or challenge
It was too late in the game to change the schedule of the project.
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A game or contest in which two or more persons, animals, or teams oppose and compete with each other
A soccer match.
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The total number of points required to win a game
One hundred points is game in bridge.
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A tennis contest won by the player or side that wins a specified number of sets, usually two out of three or three out of five.
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Game

The score accumulated at any given time in a game
The game is now 14 to 12.
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Match

A marriage or an arrangement of marriage
A royal match.
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Game

The equipment needed for playing certain games
Packed the children's games in the car.
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Match

A person viewed as a prospective marriage partner.
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A particular style or manner of playing a game
Improved my tennis game with practice.
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A narrow piece of material, usually wood or cardboard, coated on one end with a compound that ignites when scratched against a rough or chemically treated surface.
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An active interest or pursuit, especially one involving competitive engagement or adherence to rules
"the way the system operates, the access game, the turf game, the image game" (Hedrick Smith).
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An easily ignited cord or wick, formerly used to detonate powder charges or to fire cannons and muzzle-loading firearms.
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A business or occupation; a line
The insurance game.
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Match

To be like (another) or be a counterpart to
Does this sock match that one?.
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Game

An illegal activity; a racket.
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To resemble or harmonize with
The coat matches the dress.
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Evasive, trifling, or manipulative behavior
Wanted a straight answer, not more of their tiresome games.
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To adapt or suit so that a balanced or harmonious result is achieved; cause to correspond
You should match your deeds to your beliefs.
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A calculated strategy or approach; a scheme
I saw through their game from the very beginning.
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Match

To find or produce a counterpart to
It's difficult to match the color of old paint.
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Game

(Mathematics) A model of a competitive situation that identifies interested parties and stipulates rules governing all aspects of the competition, used in game theory to determine the optimal course of action for an interested party.
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To pair (someone) with another in a romantic relationship or marriage
She was hoping to match her cousin with her neighbor.
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Game

Wild animals hunted for food or sport.
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To place in opposition or competition; pit
She matched her skill against all comers.
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The flesh of these animals, eaten as food.
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To provide with an adversary or competitor
The tournament matches the best offensive team with the best defensive team.
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An object of attack, ridicule, or pursuit
The press considered the candidate's indiscretions to be game.
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Match

To do as well as or better than in competition; equal
She easily matches me in bicycle racing.
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Game

Mockery; sport
The older children teased and made game of the newcomer.
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Match

To set in comparison; compare
Beauty that could never be matched.
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To manipulate dishonestly for personal gain; rig
Executives who gamed the system to get huge payoffs.
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Match

To provide funds so as to equal or complement
The government will match all private donations to the museum.
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Game

To play for stakes; gamble.
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Match

To flip or toss (coins) and compare the sides that land face up.
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Game

To play a role-playing or computer game.
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To couple (electric circuits) by means of a transformer.
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Game

Plucky and unyielding in spirit; resolute
She put up a game fight against her detractors.
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Match

To be exactly like another; correspond exactly
Do the two socks match?.
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Game

Ready and willing
Are you game for a swim?.
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Match

To harmonize with another
My shirt and my tie match.
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Game

Crippled; lame
A game leg.
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(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
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Game

A playful or competitive activity.
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Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
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A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
Being a child is all fun and games.
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Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
He knew he had met his match.
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(countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
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A marriage.
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Game

A school subject during which sports are practised.
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A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
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(countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
Sally won the game.
They can turn the game around in the second half.
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Suitability.
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Game

That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
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Match

Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
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Game

The number of points necessary to win a game.
In short whist, five points are game.
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Match

Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
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Game

(card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
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A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
The carpet and curtains are a match.
A match made in heaven
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Game

(countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
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Match

An agreement or compact.
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Game

One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
Study can help your game of chess.
Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
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(metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
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A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
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Lovemaking, flirtation.
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(intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
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Game

(slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
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(transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
His interests didn't match her interests.
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A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
He's in the securities game somehow.
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(transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
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Game

Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
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(transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
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Game

An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
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(obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
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(uncountable) wild animals hunted for food.
The forest has plenty of game.
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To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
To match boards
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The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
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(programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.
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Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
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Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood or cardboard dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
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(countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
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A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
Government . . . makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
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(colloquial) Willing and able to participate.
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A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
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Game

(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
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A matrimonial union; a marriage.
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Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
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Match

An agreement, compact, etc.
Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
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Injured, lame (of a limb).
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A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
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(intransitive) To gamble.
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Equality of conditions in contest or competition, or one who provides equal competition to another in a contest; as, he had no match as a swordsman within the city.
It were no match, your nail against his horn.
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(intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
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Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
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(transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
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A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.
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To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
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To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
No settled senses of the world can matchThe pleasure of that madness.
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Game

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
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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.
No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct.
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Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death.
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To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
Eternal mightTo match with their inventions they presumedSo easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.
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Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
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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.
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Game

Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game.
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To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
Let poets match their subject to their strength.
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A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
But war's a game, which, were their subject wise,Kings would not play at.
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To marry; to give in marriage.
A senator of Rome survived,Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
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The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
Talk the game o'er between the deal.
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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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That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.
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To be united in marriage; to mate.
I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep.
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Game

In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
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To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
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A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
Your murderous game is nearly up.
It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
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Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction;
He always carries matches to light his pipe
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Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
Those species of animals . . . distinguished from the rest by the well-known appellation of game.
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A formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
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To rejoice; to be pleased; - often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
God loved he best with all his whole hearteAt alle times, though him gamed or smarte.
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Match

A burning piece of wood or cardboard;
If you drop a match in there the whole place will explode
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Game

To play at any sport or diversion.
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Match

An exact duplicate;
When a match is found an entry is made in the notebook
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Game

To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or some other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.
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Match

The score needed to win a match
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Game

A single play of a game;
The game lasted 2 hours
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Match

A person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
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Game

A contest with rules to determine a winner;
You need four people to play this game
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Match

A person who is of equal standing with another in a group
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Game

An amusement or pastime;
They played word games
He thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time
His life was all fun and games
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Match

A pair of people who live together;
A married couple from Chicago
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Game

Animal hunted for food or sport
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Match

Something that resembles or harmonizes with;
That tie makes a good match with your jacket
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Game

The game equipment needed to play a game;
The child received several games for his birthday
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Match

Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics;
The two stories don't agree in many details
The handwriting checks with the signature on the check
The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun
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Game

Your occupation or line of work;
He's in the plumbing game
She's in show biz
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Match

Provide funds complementary to;
The company matched the employees' contributions
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Game

(games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win;
The game is 6 all
He is serving for the game
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Match

Bring two objects, ideas, or people together;
This fact is coupled to the other one
Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
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Game

The flesh of wild animals that is used for food
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Match

Be equal to in quality or ability;
Nothing can rival cotton for durability
Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues
Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents
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Game

A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal);
They concocted a plot to discredit the governor
I saw through his little game from the start
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Match

Make correspond or harmonize;
Match my sweater
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Game

Frivolous or trifling behavior;
For actors, memorizing lines is no game
For him, life is all fun and games
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Match

Satisfy or fulfill;
Meet a need
This job doesn't match my dreams
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Game

Place a bet on;
Which horse are you backing?
I'm betting on the new horse
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Match

Give or join in marriage
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Game

Disabled in the feet or legs;
A crippled soldier
A game leg
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Match

Set into opposition or rivalry;
Let them match their best athletes against ours
Pit a chess player against the Russian champion
He plays his two children off against each other
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Game

Willing to face danger
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Match

Be equal or harmonize;
The two pieces match
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Game

In the context of hunting, game refers to wild animals hunted for sport or food.
Deer are a common type of game in these forests.
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Match

Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching;
Let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office
The company matched the discount policy of its competitors
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Game

Game can also describe a strategy or tactic in a broader sense.
He is playing a long game with his career choices.
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Match

Match refers to a sports contest between two or more players or teams.
The football match attracted thousands of fans.
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Match

Match can mean an equal or counterpart in quality or characteristics.
She found a match for the rare book she owned.
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Match

Match signifies an event or occurrence that seems to be ordained by fate.
Their meeting seemed like a perfect match of timing and opportunity.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries

Is every Match competitive?

Yes, matches inherently involve competition between opponents.
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What is a Game?

A structured form of play or sport, often for enjoyment or skill development.
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What is a Match in the context of dating?

It refers to a suitable partner or romantic pairing.
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What does Match refer to in sports?

A contest or sports event between two teams or individuals.
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What’s the difference between a football Game and Match?

They're often used interchangeably, but 'match' is more specific to a competitive event.
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What does Match mean in online dating?

It refers to two people who are considered suitable for each other based on certain criteria.
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Can a Game have educational purposes?

Yes, many games are designed for education and skill development.
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Can a Game be non-competitive?

Yes, games can be played solo or without a competitive element.
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Can the term Game apply to video games?

Yes, video games are a type of game.
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Is the term Game used in gambling?

Yes, various forms of gambling involve games.
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Can someone ‘game the system’?

Yes, this phrase means to manipulate the system for personal advantage.
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Do all sports involve Games?

Most sports involve games as part of their structure.
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Can a Match be part of a tournament?

Yes, matches are often part of larger tournaments or series in sports.
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Is a Game always physical?

No, games can include non-physical activities like board games or card games.
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What does a Match-grade product mean?

It refers to products of the highest standard, often used in competitive sports.
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Are video games considered Matches?

They can be if they involve competitive play against others.
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Is a board game considered a Match?

It's generally considered a game, though it can be competitive.
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What is a charity Match?

A sports event organized to raise funds for charity, usually featuring a competitive match.
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What is a test Match in cricket?

It's a type of cricket match played over multiple days.
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Can a Match have different formats?

Yes, matches can vary in format depending on the sport or game.
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