Match and Ready

Match

Match verb - To be the exact counterpart of.

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Ready and match are semantically related. in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead a verb "Match".

Nearby Words: matched, matching, matcher

Ready verb - To make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function.

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Match and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Match" instead a verb "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

power	match power	ready power
time	match time	ready time
level	match level	ready level
music	match music	ready music
Other words: fight, times, weapons.

Among competitive decks, it is not uncommon for a player to have only one Pokémon ready when a match begins, and if that one ready Pokémon gets KOed, that player loses the match.

Source: One Hit Kill / Tabletop Games
Think Music: A variant; music plays while the stars write down their answers on the cards."Get ready to match the tropes": Accent On The Wrong Syllable: A Match Game '73 episode had a contestant answering "bosom" to a question but pronouncing it as "booze-um" rather than "buh-zum" or even "ba-zoom".

Source: Series / Match Game
After Carly Colon loses the WWC Universal Title to Abdullah the Butcher, he says Eddie Colon, who was Puerto Rican Champion at the time and wanted to have a champion vs champion match with Abdullah, was not ready.

Source: You Are Not Ready

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