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MATCHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provided with a worthy adversary or competitor
Example:
matched teams
Classified under:
Similar:
competitive; competitory (involving competition or competitiveness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities
Classified under:
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb match
Context examples:
Transplants from matched siblings led to the best restoration of immune function.
(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)
I shall fight for the honour, and because I wish to be thought worthy of being matched against Jem Belcher.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This is indeed what the group found—the patients were less susceptible to the condition and had less inflammation and bone loss compared to age- and gender-matched volunteers.
(Researchers identify immune culprits linked to inflammation and bone loss in gum disease, National Institutes of Health)
The children were well-matched for age, body mass index and socioeconomic status.
(Chronic high blood sugar may be detrimental to the developing brain of young children, NIH)
For my part, I should wish to see so well matched a pair fight on while a drop of blood remained in their veins.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The researchers also studied 53 cognitively normal age- and sex-matched participants for comparison.
(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)
Presence of questionable mild cytologic atypia; indicates need for simultaneous analysis of age matched controls — preferably in a blinded fashion.
(Non-physiological Diffuse Hyperplasia of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
All CTEP SDC Terms are matched to NCIt concepts, which are linked to SDC Categories and Sub-Categories through ConceptInSubset association relationships.
(NCI CTEP Simplified Disease Classification Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
Bronchiolitis olbiterans may be caused by other factors, and can also occur after a transplant with an organ or stem cells from a matched donor.
(Bronchiolitis obliterans, NCI Dictionary)
The prognosis is similar to that of other melanomas matched for depth of invasion.
(Balloon Cell Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)
