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单词 matchlike
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matchlikeadj.

Brit. /ˈmatʃlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈmætʃˌlaɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: match n.2, -like suffix.
Etymology: < match n.2 + -like suffix.
Resembling a match; fine and slender.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [adjective]
subtlea1382
subtilea1393
subtilec1392
smiltc1400
fine?a1425
thina1425
exile?1440
slender1444
tenuious1495
jimp?a1513
lenye1513
fine-spuna1555
nice1567
spindled1584
gracile1590
snever1640
tenuous1656
slim1657
gracilious1688
gracilent1727
twittery1819
flitterya1834
attenuate1848
spiry1849
low-profile1906
matchlike1906
slimline1949
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > [adjective] > cut up ( of vegetables)
chipped1562
julienne1889
Frenched1903
matchlike1906
French cut1943
1906 A. Filippini Internat. Cook Bk. 228 Cut with a sharp knife..into even julienne, match-like strips.
1937 America's Cook Bk. 475 Shoestring or Julienne Potatoes—Cut pared potato in matchlike sticks.
1949 W. L. Perkins in F. Farmer Boston Cooking-school Cook Bk. (rev. ed.) 420 Julienne or Shoestring Potatoes. Cut in matchlike pieces.
1963 McCall's Cook Bk. 10/2 Julienne means to cut potatoes or vegetables into matchlike sticks.
1997 Indianapolis Star (Nexis) 15 Sept. e1 In some photos, JT's matchlike fingers are shown grasping a parental pinkie.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

matchlikeadv.

Forms: see match n.1 and -like suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: match n.1, -like suffix.
Etymology: < match n.1 + -like suffix.Compare Old English mæclic (adjective) ‘conjugal’, attested only in an incomplete scratched gloss to Aldhelm's De laude virginitatis:OE Aldhelm Glosses (Corpus Cambr. 285) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 184/2 Tedas iugales: candelas, mæclican anten[dnyssa].The more usual form of this word is with ge- prefix, gemæclic.
Obsolete. rare.
In pairs.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [adverb]
two and twoc1000
by two and twoc1575
matchlike1582
two by two1709–10
pairwise1831
binately1870
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 60 Horses..Al yoked, and matchlyke teamed with common agreement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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