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Definition of Match-up
1. Noun. The pairing of people or things as for comparison or competition. "We need a matchup of the best teachers with the neediest schools"
Definition of Match-up
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of matchup) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Match-up
Literary usage of Match-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A treatise on the art of breeding and managing the Almond tumbler by John Matthews Eaton (1851)
"There are several things here to take into consideration ; the first would be,
how many pairs of birds you intend to match up? What is the temperature of ..."
2. Centrifugal Pumps by Robert Long Daugherty (1915)
"roperly match up the ith reference to a right- ... to match up the ,) set of
pattern-maker's 1 portion of Fig. 109. i taken as being parallel |n which event ..."
3. Wood Craft: A Journal of Woodworking, with which is Incorporated "The (1914)
"Match Up and Joint Your > 15 Edging IN work to be overlaid with veneers, ...
15 will match up and joint the stock, m of a hand jointer unnecessary. ..."
4. The Modern English Verb-adverb Combination by Arthur Garfield Kennedy (1920)
"lead up (to a subject), line up (a body of men), link up, match up, measure up,
meet up 'to meet,' pull up 'to stop a horse,' rein up, ..."
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