matchedadj.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lix. sig. ❧Cciii Ten to one (in war) an vnmeete matched match.

?1570 E. Elviden Pesistratus & Catanea sig. Iij^v By chaunce they now and then Do make a matched mate.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther i. 20 And sacrilege and she, A well-match'd pair, got graceless heresie.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 89 Such refractory ill-match'd Fellows.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vii. 153 I will venture to say..that four handsomer or better-matched bays never were put in harness.

1888 Boston Jrnl. 16 June 1/1 Another auction sale of choice family horses (including matched pairs and saddlers).

1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage xxii. 210 These intent regiments apparently were oblivious of all larger purposes of war, and were slugging each other as if at a matched game.

1987 Telford Jrnl. 4 June 11/2 The steam ploughing engines Fame and Fortune..are believed to be the best matched pair of their class in existence.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §297 Five-eighth-inch deal matched (the edge of one board grooved, and the adjoining board tongued..) and beaded boarding.

1857–9 E. L. Tarbuck Encycl. Pract. Carpentry & Joinery 208 In Fig. 10 the edges are shot;..in Fig. 12 matched.

1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Nov. 59/2 Matched boards, boards specially cut at the edges to enable close joints to be made, either by tongue and groove or by rebated edge.

1962 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 4) 122 Matched boards, see Tongue and Groove.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 25/1 Now that matched sets are gradually losing some of their popularity..comes the day of the odd chair.

1938 Foreign Service Feb. 1/2 (advt.) A bigger, more powerful, super performing Complete radio in a big exquisitely designed console of matched Walnut.

1972 A. Roudybush Sybaritic Death (1974) vii. 70 Clare's status-conscious matched luggage.

1998 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. 79 Look for vests, matched and unmatched, and for peaked lapels on single-breasted jackets.

1845 Post Office London Directory (1974) (advt.) A large assortment of dry prepared flooring boards and matched boarding of all sorts.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 477/2 Matched boarding is frequently used as a less expensive substitute for panelled framing.

2006 S. Townley Carterton, Minster Lovell, & Environs 103/2 Many early buildings..were bungalows of galvanized corrugated iron mounted on a timber frame, lined internally with matched boarding.

1937 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 11 188 The same teacher will be in control of the experimental groups and the matched control groups.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 749/1 The study..uses matched controls and differs from previous studies in that the detailed assessment of the case notes of the patients concerned was made on a ‘blind’ basis.

1999 Internat. Jrnl. Cardiol. 67 171 The results were compared with the data from 51 matched controls without a history of cardiac disease.

1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing ii. xi. 172 When diagrams are used, it is most important to make exactly clear what they refer to... This is accomplished most simply by the matched dissolve.

1995 Creativity (Nexis) 12 June 30 Pritts had been hired..to direct a three-spot package for the utility promoting ways to conserve energy, and each spot required a different circular item on the set to be used in a matched dissolve to the Washington Energy logo.

1968 Public Opinion Q. 32 282 With the ‘matched-guise technique,’ Ss hear several accented speakers who come from groups toward which they have definite attitudes. Subjects hear the speakers and then rate the personality characteristics of the speakers on fourteen bipolar personality dimensions.

1991 Eng. World-wide 12 288 This work..included an exploratory matched-guise test to investigate the children's attitude to standard language and dialect.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 114/1 The several Parts of a [Printing] Press. The Matcht Joynt, is the Joynt or Hing fastned to the Timpan and hinder Raile of the Coffin.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 477/2 The matched joint is shown in two forms, beaded and jointed.

1865 Price List of Joinery 33 6.6¾ Matched-lined enclosure to stairs.

1903 S. S. Pratt Work of Wall St. 146 The Syndicate may be washing sales by matched orders through curb brokers in order to market watered stock.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 2/2 An order to buy is given to one broker and an order to sell to another, and an arrangement is made that the two brokers shall only deal with one another... The opportunity for market manipulation is obvious, and ‘matched orders’ have led to grave scandals.

1964 P. Wyckoff Dict. Stock Market Terms 163 Matched orders. 1. Orders to buy or sell a particular stock which are placed simultaneously with different brokers by the same person... 2. Buy and sell orders matched legitimately by the specialist in a stock in order to arrange an opening price as closely as possible to the previous close.

1933 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 7 259 Eighteen matched pairs were available for the experiment.

1938 Ecology 19 388 In these matched-pair tests a normally-protected individual became a non-protectively colored individual only because it was placed on a contrasting soil background.

1990 Laryngoscope 100 25 (heading) A matched-pairs comparison of single and multichannel cochlear implants in children.

1942 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 37 101 Matched sample.

1950 Biometrika 37 256 (title) The comparison of percentages in matched samples.

1980 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 42 29 The matched samples design is less efficient in the large sample case than the independent samples design.

1996 Appl. Linguistics 17 96 As our subjects are the same individuals examined at different points in time, we have controlled for extraneous sources of variation and can therefore utilize matched sample tests.