MATCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does matched mean? 

• MATCHED (adjective)
  The adjective MATCHED has 2 senses:

1. provided with a worthy adversary or competitor

2. going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities

  Familiarity information: MATCHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided with a worthy adversary or competitor

Context example:

matched teams

Similar:

competitive; competitory (involving competition or competitiveness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities

Similar:

co-ordinated; coordinated; matching (intentionally matched)

duplicate; matching; twin; twinned (being two identical)

mated; paired (occurring in pairs or as a pair)

one-to-one (used of relations such that each member of one set is associated with one member of a second set)

Also:

compatible (able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination)

mated (mated sexually)

Antonym:

mismatched (either not matched or unsuitably matched)

 Context examples 

Hyperplasia as an increase in glandular/stromal tissue compared to age matched wild type control mice.

(Hyperplasia of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The researchers had previously simulated the study with a math model of human metabolism, whose body fat predictions matched the data later collected in the study.

(Study finds cutting dietary fat reduces body fat more than cutting carbs, NIH)

The two supernovae matched up well with mathematical models of Type II explosions reinforcing existing theories.

(Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star, NASA)

Face photographs in which the features had been scrambled were not matched with green at all.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

A preparation of allogeneic HLA-matched leukocytes treated with a derivative of placental protein 14 (PP14) with potential immunomodulating activity.

(HLA-Matched Donor Mononuclear Cell-Enriched Leukocytes Apocell, NCI Thesaurus)

Affecting both sides of the body, or a matched pair of organs.

(Bilateral, NCI Thesaurus)

The study found that when microglia, the brain's resident immune cells, were blocked, female response to opioid pain medication improved and matched the levels of pain relief normally seen in males.

(Why Women May Feel More Pain Than Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Not more than five couple could be mustered; but the rarity and the suddenness of it made it very delightful, and she found herself well matched in a partner.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Almost 100 age-matched controls were also studied for comparison.

(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)

An isotype-matched monoclonal antibody that is used as a control when testing other monoclonal antibodies.

(Monoclonal Antibody BL-3, NCI Thesaurus)