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Meanings of matches in English

Russian
спички
Portuguese
fósforo
Spanish
cerilla
Catalan
llumí
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Device for lighting fires.

спички
Usage of matches in English
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The company said the new system matches ads to relevant programming segments.
Reuters
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She's had some really good, strong matches in the past few months.
Reuters
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He played matches without training and that's not easy, the Italian said.
The Guardian
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Previous examples of matches being replayed go back a number of years.
The Irish Times
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No decision has yet been made on future Sunwolves matches in Asia.
Radio NZ
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Saturday's Leinster Senior League matches have left the relegation issue wide open.
The Irish Times
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He's been a good challenge for us the first two Test matches.
The South African
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The closing sequence of matches certainly present an intriguing list of possibilities.
The Irish Times
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The feature finds possible matches to search terms as the user types.
Wired
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Today could exceed Sunday, which saw 11 goals in only three matches.
The Irish Times
11
City are four points off the top with five league matches left.
The South African
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This had been largely expected after the evidence of recent challenge matches.
The Irish Times
13
The one policy area where BES Express matches BES is application control.
Reuters
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Ireland selector Paddy Clarke has been suspended for five International Rules matches.
The Irish Times
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We have ideas, we have solutions to problems, and plans for matches.
The Guardian
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I set it on fire from the walls; no need for matches.
Guilty Pleasures
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