Word Meanings - MISMATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To match unsuitably.

Related words: (words related to MISMATCH)

• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• MATCHLOCK
  An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
• MATCH-CLOTH
  A coarse cloth.
• MATCH PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play.
• MATCH
  Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by
• MATCHMAKING
  1. The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning. 2. The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.
• MATCH GAME
  A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games.
• MATCH-COAT
  A coat made of match-cloth.
• MATCHLESS
  1. Having no equal; unequaled. "A matchless queen." Waller. 2. Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited. "Matchless ears." Spenser. -- Match"less*ly, adv. -- Match"less*ness, n.
• MATCHABLE
  Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent. -- Match"a*ble*ness, n. Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients. Hakewill.
• MATCHER
  One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.
• MISMATCH
  To match unsuitably.
• IMMATCHABLE
  Matchless; peerless. Holland.
• PARLOR MATCH
  A friction match that contains little or no sulphur.
• UNDERMATCH
  One who is not a match for another. Fuller.
• OVERMATCH
  1. To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish. Drayton. 2. To marry to a superior. Burton.
• BICKFORD FUSE; BICKFORD FUZE; BICKFORD MATCH
  A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.
• COCKMATCH
  A cockfight.
• SLUGGING MATCH
  A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball.
• SMATCH
  Taste; tincture; smack. Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it. Shak.