match up
— phrasal verb with match usuk/mætʃ/verb
(BE THE SAME)
If two pieces of information match up, they are the same:
Their accounts of what happened that evening don't match up.
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Being or appearing similar or the same
- a passing resemblance idiom
- agree
- answer
- ballpark
- be in good company idiom
- be in the same ballpark idiom
- be nothing/not much/very little in it idiom
- be two of a kind idiom
- company
- correspond
- equalize
- equalizer
- even
- even (sth) out
- flatline
- homologous
- homologous series
- in line with sth idiom
- line
- mirror
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(BE SIMILAR)
If two things match up, they are similar and are designed to connect or to work together:
If the teeth on the cogs don't match up correctly (= if they are not in the correct place), the mechanism will jam.
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Matching and co-ordinating
- -matched
- coordinate
- coordinated
- go
- go with sth
- marry
- marry up (sth)
- match
- match sth up
- tone
- tone in
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Being or appearing similar or the same
(BE EQUALLY GOOD)
to be as good as another thing, person, or experience:
There was so much hype beforehand that it would have been difficult for the film to match up to/with our expectations of it.
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Balance and imbalance
- accord
- accord with sth
- align
- alignment
- balance (sth) out/up
- balance of power
- balanced
- equilibrium
- harmonize
- harmony
- imbalance
- jar
- offset
- on an even keel idiom
- one man's loss is another man's gain idiom
- realign
- square (sth) with sth
- strike a balance idiom
- symmetry
- wash
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