Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A box in which to keep matches.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box for holding matches.
- noun Milit., same as
match-pipe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a box for holding matches. See first
match , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small cardboard box in which
matches are kept.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a box for holding matches
Etymologies
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Examples
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The opinion of this report on what is currently taking place in Zimbabwe might be called matchbox rattling.
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Both women enter the hut, and coarse hands unused to dealing with small articles tremblingly lift the lid of a matchbox, which is a rarity in the Caucasus.
The Cossacks 2003
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Both women enter the hut, and coarse hands unused to dealing with small articles tremblingly lift the lid of a matchbox, which is a rarity in the Caucasus.
The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Inside the matchbox was a cricket that proceeded to chirp at me.
COMIXTALK 2009
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Inside the matchbox was a cricket that proceeded to chirp at me.
COMIXTALK 2009
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Oh and you'll have to forgive me for this, but what kind of matchbox does your poor lady drive that she can't get to work if there's 2, maybe 3 inches of snow on the driveway, as evidenced by the picture?
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Oh and you'll have to forgive me for this, but what kind of matchbox does your poor lady drive that she can't get to work if there's 2, maybe 3 inches of snow on the driveway, as evidenced by the picture?
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Nearly every Soweto tour includes a visit to the small "matchbox" house in the Orlando East neighborhood where Mandela lived briefly with his second wife, Winnie, while working as a lawyer in Johannesburg.
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The prices of these "matchbox" houses were even beyond the reach of the intended beneficiaries.
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Seen from a distance, Soweto is utterly lacking in green; the tiny "matchbox" houses that march in rigid rows all the way to the horizon are a monochromatic brown.
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