单词 | matcher |
释义 | matchern. 1. A person who matches one thing with another. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > match-maker broker1377 marriage-maker1591 proxenete1609 matcher1611 ring-carriera1616 matchmaker1638 match-broker1640 marriage broker1662 marriage-bawd1676 match-monger1680 flesh-broker1699 wife broker1700 black-sole1725 marriage-monger?1748 Blackfoot1808 blackleg1825 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > fact or act of being coupled or coupling together > one who couples or yokes together coupler1552 matcher1682 yoker1731 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Marieur, a matcher, a marier. 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 11 A meere matcher of colours. 1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 7 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. It would argue the wise and just God a very unequal Matcher of innocent Souls with brutish Bodies. 1896 Daily News 4 Jan. 5/3 An ‘assortiseur’, or matcher of coloured textiles. 1935 ‘G. Ingram’ Cockney Cavalcade iv. 54 ‘That matcher of ours is a lad, Mum!’..‘Oh, what's she been up to now?’ 1993 Music Technol. May 55/3 It's perfect for submixes into larger boards, as an impedance matcher or as an extremely high quality microphone preamplifier. 2. Woodworking. = matching-machine n. at matching n.1 Compounds 2. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > other machine tools mortising machine1655 waving-engine1678 draw plate1776 sticking machine1844 broaching machine1846 sticker1851 shaper1853 mortiser1858 throating machine1866 pointing machine1871 router1872 gaining-machine1875 panel raiser1875 matcher1890 spindle machine1902 spindle1920 1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Matcher, a matching machine. Compounds matcher head n. Woodworking rare the cutting end or head of a match plane. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 587/2 Matcher head, the head in a planing machine which carries the cutting tool. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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