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English

Etymology

From Latin supplementum (“that which is added to supply a shortage”), from supplere (“to provide something”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?pl?m?nt/

Noun

supplement (plural supplements)

1. Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.
2. An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors or brings up to date.
3. An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.

   • "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"

4. (geometry) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
5. (nutrition, bodybuilding) A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development.
6. A surcharge, additional cost, especially for food in a restaurant.

   There is a £2 supplement if you choose the steak.

Synonyms

• (something added): addition; See also Thesaurus:adjunct

Related terms

• supplementary
• suppletion
• suppletory

Translations

Verb

supplement (third-person singular simple present supplements, present participle supplementing, simple past and past participle supplemented)

1. To provide or make a supplement to something.

Synonyms

• eke out

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French supplément, from Latin suppl?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.pl??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: sup?ple?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

supplement n (plural supplementen, diminutive supplementje n)

1. A supplement, addition.

   Synonym: aanvulling

2. A surcharge, additional cost.

   Synonym: toeslag

3. (geometry) An supplementary angle, which, when added to a given angle, makes 180°.

   Synonym: supplementshoek

Derived terms

• ereloonsupplement
• supplementair
• supplementshoek
• voedingssupplement

Related terms

• suppletie
• suppletoir

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French supplément

Noun

supplement n (definite singular supplementet, indefinite plural supplement or supplementer, definite plural supplementa or supplementene)

1. a supplement

Derived terms

• supplementsbind

References

• “supplement” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “supplement” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French supplément

Noun

supplement n (definite singular supplementet, indefinite plural supplement, definite plural supplementa)

1. a supplement

Derived terms

• supplementsbind

References

• “supplement” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæt??/
• Rhymes: -æt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English matche, metche, macche, mecche, mache, meche, from Old English mæ??a, ?emæ??a, secondary forms of Old English maca, ?emaca (“companion, mate, wife, one suited to another”), from Proto-Germanic *makkô, *gamakkô, *makô, *gamakô (“an equal; comrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, work”). Cognate with Danish mage (“mate”), Icelandic maki (“spouse”).

Noun

match (plural matches)

1. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

   My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

2. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
   • 1603, Michael Drayton. The Barons' Wars

     many a warlike match

   • A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

3. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

   He knew he had met his match.
4. A marriage.
5. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

   • She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.

6. Suitability.
7. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
8. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
9. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

   The carpet and curtains are a match.

10. An agreement or compact.
    • 1660 (first published), Robert Boyle, Seraphic Love

      Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.

11. (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.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• competition
• game
• set
• tournament

Verb

match (third-person singular simple present matches, present participle matching, simple past and past participle matched)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.

2. (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.

   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
3. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
4. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.

5. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1:

     […] Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

   • A senator of Rome survived,
     Would not have matched his daughter with a king.

6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mate

Etymology 2

From Middle English macche, mecche, from Old French mesche, meische, from Vulgar Latin micca (compare Catalan metxa, Spanish mecha, Italian miccia), which in turn is probably from Latin myxa (“nozzle, curved part of a lamp”), from Ancient Greek ???? (múxa, “lamp wick”).

Noun

match (plural matches)

2. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

   Synonym: spunk (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• fire, lighter, cigarette lighter
• strike (to strike a match)

French

Etymology

From English match.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat?/

Noun

match m (plural matchs)

1. (sports) match, game

Usage notes

Sometimes translated as rencontre (sportive).

Derived terms

• match nul
• Paris Match

Further reading

• “match” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English match.

Noun

match m (invariable)

1. match (sports event)
2. horserace (involving only two horses)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

match

1. imperative of matche

Spanish

Noun

match m (plural matches)

1. match (sporting event)

Swedish

Noun

match c

1. match

Declension