matching

/mætʃɪŋ/

意味: 一致している（形・動詞）

例文: Lena wore matching socks.
　　  レナがおそろいの靴下を履いていた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: matching colors(色を合わせる), matching outfits(お揃いの服), matching funds(対応資金)

定義: 似合う、または合うことを指します。例えば、色やデザインが調和している場合に使います。また、ペアやセットとして一緒に使うものを指すこともあります。

matchingは約80,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
Verb: provide funds complementary to
Verb: bring two objects, ideas, or people together
Verb: be equal to in quality or ability
Verb: make correspond or harmonize
Verb: satisfy or fulfill
Verb: give or join in marriage
Verb: set into opposition or rivalry
Verb: be equal or harmonize
Verb: make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
Adjective: being two identical
Adjective: intentionally matched

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The matching colors made the room look brighter.(色が合っていて部屋が明るく見えた。)
She found a matching pair of shoes quickly.(彼女はすぐにお揃いの靴を見つけた。)
They wore matching outfits to the party.(彼らはパーティーでお揃いの服を着た。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: The two stories don’t agree in many details
Verb: The handwriting checks with the signature on the check
Verb: The suspect’s fingerprints don’t match those on the gun
Verb: The company matched the employees’ contributions
Verb: This fact is coupled to the other one
Verb: Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
Verb: The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
Verb: Nothing can rival cotton for durability
Verb: Your performance doesn’t even touch that of your colleagues
Verb: Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents
Verb: Match my sweater
Verb: meet a need
Verb: this job doesn’t match my dreams
Verb: let them match their best athletes against ours
Verb: pit a chess player against the Russian champion
Verb: He plays his two children off against each other
Verb: The two pieces match
Verb: let’s equalize the duties among all employees in this office
Verb: The company matched the discount policy of its competitors
Adjective: curtains and walls were color coordinated

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): agree, check, co-ordinated, coordinated, cope with, correspond, couple, duplicate, equal, equalise, equalize, equate, fit, gibe, jibe, match, matching, mate, meet, oppose, pair, pit, play off, rival, tally, touch, twin, twinned

Antonyms(反意語): disagree

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): adjust, change, compete, confront, cope, equal, join, supply

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acclimatize, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, air-cool, alchemize, alcoholize, align, alkalinize, allegorize, alphabetize, alter, americanize, anastomose, angulate, animize, ankylose, antiquate, antique, archaize, arm, arterialize, ash, assemble, assimilate, attune, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, bed, berth, bestialize, better, bewhisker, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, border, bottom, brattice, break, break down, bridge, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, bush, calcify, calibrate, calk, camp, canal, capitalize, caption, capture, cause to sleep, causeway, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, citify, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, cleat, close, close up, clot, cloud, coal, coarsen, cog, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, computerize, condense, confuse, connect, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, copper-bottom, corbel, cornice, corrupt, costume, counterchange, crack, crenel, cry, curtain, customize, dado, damage, darken, date, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, depressurize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulate, emulsify, enable, end, equal, equate, equip, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fair, fatten, feed, feminize, fend, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, flood, focus, freeze, frenchify, fret, front, fuel, full, fund, furnish, gate, gelatinize, glamorize, glass, glorify, grate, habituate, hack, harmonize, harshen, hat, headline, headquarter, heat, hobnail, hue, humanize, humble, hydrate, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, improvise, inactivate, incandesce, increase, index, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, innervate, inseminate, insulate, intensify, interleave, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, joint, justify, kern, key, laicize, legitimate, lend, leverage, liberalize, lifehack, lift, ligate, linearize, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, machicolate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, match, mechanize, meet, militarize, mince, miter, mix, modulate, morph, mortice, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obey, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, offer, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, partner, patch, patent, personalize, piggyback, pit, plasticize, play, plumb, ply, poison, polarize, politicize, port, pour, pressurize, professionalize, proof, proportion, prostrate, provision, pump, purify, put, rabbet, race, radicalize, rafter, rail, railroad, ramp, rarefy, rationalize, readapt, readjust, rebate, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reflectorize, reform, refresh, regulate, relax, remodel, represent, restore, retrofit, revolutionize, right, rim, ripen, rival, romanticize, round off, run off, rusticate, sanitate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, scarf, schematize, scramble, scrape along, seam, seat, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shelter, shift, shorten, signalize, simplify, slat, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, sovietize, spice, spike, sputter, square, stabilize, stain, steepen, step, stiffen, still, stint, stock, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, subtitle, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, surfeit, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, take the bull by the horns, tame, tap, temper, tender, tense, terrace, territorialize, theme, thicken, think, ticket, tighten, time, toggle, tone down, tool, top, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transistorize, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, trim, try for, tube, tune, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, uniform, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, upholster, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, victual, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, water, weaken, weaponize, wet, wharf, widen, wive, worsen, yield, zero

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): adhere, align, answer, balance, befit, coincide, consist, correlate, corroborate, harmonize, homogenize, homologize, look, meet, mismatch, mismate, parallel, pattern, resemble, rhyme, square, tie, twin

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: agreeable, agreement, correspondence, correspondent, couple, coupling, equal, equalisation, equaliser, equalization, equalizer, equation, equator, fitting, match, matcher, mate, opponent, pair, playoff

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ing

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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