matching set

collocation in English

meaningsofmatchingandset

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matching
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈmætʃ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈmætʃ.ɪŋ/
having the same colour or pattern as ...
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set
noun
uk
/set/us
/set/
a group of similar things that belong together in ...
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(Definition ofmatchingandsetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Already this adds up to a useful, quick-reference outline of polar history, with amatchingsetof maps.
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A player should keep the four cards that are most likely to produce amatchingset.
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There is amatchingsetof 9 of the smaller "li" type of cauldron.
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Amatchingsetof over-trousers was produced to complement the smock.
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They may choose to discard amatchingsetof train car cards and play a station on top of any open city.
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Naturally, with every club setting comes amatchingsetof beautiful people.
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The ceremonial aprons of all three form amatchingset.
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Walker markets the 2011matchingsetas nonfiction.
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Children from each grade had to speak to a listener in the same grade that they could not see and have them build amatchingsetof stacked blocks.
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Most eukaryotes have two matching sets of chromosomes; that is, they are diploid.
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From 1600 to c. 1630, hose or breeches were fastened to doublets by means of ties or "points", short laces or ribbons pulled through matching sets of worked eyelets.
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