A Match (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. A marriage. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage. Suitability. Equivalence; a state of correspondence. Equality of conditions in contest or competition. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics. An agreement or compact. (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.