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Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
Lionel Messi

Meaning of "friendly match" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FRIENDLY MATCH

friendly match  [ˈfrɛndlɪ mætʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRIENDLY MATCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Friendly match is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FRIENDLY MATCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

friendly match

Exhibition game

An exhibition game is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. These type of matches are often used to help managers select players for the competitive matches of a tournament and, if the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, it's an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. For example, two professional snooker or chess players, or two ice hockey teams, may play an exhibition to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, or often to raise money for charities.

Definition of friendly match in the English dictionary

The definition of friendly match in the dictionary is a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FRIENDLY MATCH


attach
əˈtætʃ
batch
bætʃ
catch
kætʃ
cockmatch
ˈkɒkˌmætʃ
despatch
dɪˈspætʃ
detach
dɪˈtætʃ
dispatch
dɪˈspætʃ
hatch
hætʃ
latch
lætʃ
match
mætʃ
mismatch
ˌmɪsˈmætʃ
mix-and-match
ˌmɪksəndˈmætʃ
outmatch
aʊtˈmætʃ
overmatch
ˌəʊvəˈmætʃ
patch
pætʃ
rach
rætʃ
rematch
ˈriːˌmætʃ
scratch
skrætʃ
smatch
smætʃ
snatch
snætʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FRIENDLY MATCH

friend
friend at court
friend of Dorothy
friendless
friendlessness
friendlier
friendlies
friendliest
friendlily
friendliness
friendly
friendly fire
Friendly Islands
friendly society
Friends of the Earth
friendship
frier
fries

WORDS THAT END LIKE FRIENDLY MATCH

away match
boxing match
cross-match
exhibition match
football match
grudge match
home match
league match
love match
on the watch
practice match
return match
safety match
shield match
shooting match
shouting match
sparring match
test match
the whole shooting match
varsity match
wrestling match

Synonyms and antonyms of friendly match in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «friendly match» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FRIENDLY MATCH

Find out the translation of friendly match to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of friendly match from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «friendly match» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

友谊赛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

partido amistoso
570 millions of speakers

English

friendly match
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दोस्ताना मैच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مباراة ودية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Товарищеский матч
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

amistoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ম্যাচে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

match amical
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perlawanan persahabatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Freundschaftsspiel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

親善試合
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

친선 경기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tandhingan ramah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trận giao hữu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நட்பு போட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुकूल सामना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dostluk maçı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

partita amichevole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mecz towarzyski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Товариський матч
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

meci amical
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φιλικός αγώνας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vriendskaplike wedstryd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

träningsmatch
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vennskapskamp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of friendly match

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FRIENDLY MATCH»

The term «friendly match» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.901 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FRIENDLY MATCH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about friendly match

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2 QUOTES WITH «FRIENDLY MATCH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word friendly match.
1
Lionel Messi
Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
2
Stan Mikita
Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRIENDLY MATCH»

Discover the use of friendly match in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to friendly match and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sports Ticket
... Rugby union 4 Friendly match Bay of Plenty v British Lions, Rotorua, New Zealand pages 321-323 8 Friendly match Taranaki v British Lions, New Plymouth , New Zealand pages 321-323 11 Friendly match NZ Maori v British Lions, Hamilton, ...
Sportseye, Sportsfile Staff, 2004
2
Coaching Soccer: Match Strategy and Tactics
It is inadvisable to carry out particular tactical countermeasures for a friendly match because in those kinds of situations you want the players to concentrate on perfecting their general tactical organization. On the contrary, you must not hesitate ...
Luca Prestigiacomo, 2004
3
英語的對與錯 The Dos and Don't of English (第三版)
We can win the friendly match with Class B. Ilf We can beat Class B in the friendly match. We can defeat Class B in the friendly match. We can win Class B in the friendly match. /I* We can win over Class B in the friendly match. [£] win m^ wmmm ...
James St Andre, 吳鍚德, 蘇正隆, 2009
4
CIVR 2004:
“In today's friendly match men's singles, with the opponent Hinomura,”, “Oka aggressively took the net from the early stage.”, “After he broke the fifth game of the first set with his persistent play, ”, “Oka on the bandwagon took the first set on his ...
Peter Enser, 2004
5
Science and Soccer
The same research group reported mean values for a Belgian university team during a friendly match of 1 69 beats min~ ' in the first half and 1 65 beats min~ ' in the second half. Again, the physiological responses reflected a drop in the ...
Thomas Reilly, A. Mark Williams, 2003
6
Football and European Identity: Historical Narratives ...
... place on 27 May 1945 that the war itself was un- derstandably uppermost in the minds of the reporter. Indeed, the proceeds of this 'friendly' match were to go to British and French war charities, we are informed (The Times, 28 May 1945).
Liz Crolley, David Hand, 2006
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Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting ...
Ensures that the given pattern does not match to the right, without actually performing the match. PS > "friendly" -match '(?!friendly)friend' False (?<=) Zero- width positive lookbehind assertion. Ensures that the given pattern matches to the left, ...
Lee Holmes, 2012
8
Further Issues for BBC Charter Review: 2nd Report of Session ...
... England v Austria 8,700 WCQ BBC 12 October England v Poland 10.100 Friendly BBC 1 2 November England v Argentina 9.600 Tournaments Match Average 14,308 Qualification Match Average 8,962 Friendly Match Average 7,780.
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review, 2006
9
Itching After Rovers
Rovers booked a pre-season friendly match against Celtic for early August 1994. I wanted to go to this match for one or two reasons. It was a good chance to see how Rovers, who were runners up in last season's Premier League, would fare ...
Mick Pickup
10
Whiz Kids
... Beckham drew level with Bobby Moore's record of 108 caps for an English outfield player, coming on as a substitute for Stewart Downing in a friendly match against Spain. On 28 March 2009, Beckham surpassed Moore to hold the record  ...
Jesee K. Mwaura, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRIENDLY MATCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term friendly match is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Blackpool friendly game abandoned
Blackpool's pre-season friendly match against Lancaster City on Saturday was abandoned following a second-half pitch invasion by Seasiders ... «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
2
Feyenoord vs. Fortuna Dusseldorf - Pre-season friendly match
Feyenoord vs. Fortuna Dusseldorf - Pre-season friendly match preview and kick-off time. Brendan O'Neill in Breaking News 16 minutes ago. «Football News, Jul 15»
3
PSG vs. Wiener Sportklub - Pre-season friendly match preview and …
PSG are gunning for the 'best possible pre-season' as they gear up to take on Wiener Sportklub in a friendly at their training camp in Austria on ... «Football News, Jul 15»
4
Everton, Crystal Palace and Norwich win pre-season friendlies
Alan Pardew did not take any of his international players – including record signing Yohan Cabaye - to the club's first pre-season friendly match ... «SkySports, Jul 15»
5
Manchester City have added a friendly match against Stuttgart to …
Manuel Pellegrini's side will head to Germany on August 1, a little over a week before they open their Barclays Premier League campaign with ... «Fox Sports Asia, Jul 15»
6
Manchester City, Viet Nam prepare for friendly match
HA NOI (VNS) — Manchester City and Viet Nam's national team will field their best players in their friendly match which is scheduled later this ... «Viet Nam News, Jul 15»
7
Jersey to host Sutton United in friendly match at Springfield
Jersey to host Sutton United in friendly match at Springfield. Jersey will face National League South side Sutton United in a pre-season friendly ... «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
8
No contest as Dortmund thrash JDT in friendly match
Borussia Dortmund player Henrikh Mkhitaryan (right) fights for the ball with JDT defender Marcos Antonio in the friendly match at Larkin ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»
9
GAA silent after Dublin star Davy Byrne assaulted before 'friendly …
... emerged that a Dublin player spent two days in hospital after being attacked and injured in the moments before a friendly match with Armagh. «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
10
Burnley reserves have pre-season friendly against Stockport …
The match was due to be held on July 28 - the same day that Burnley's first team was playing in another friendly match at Fleetwood in ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

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