matchbox

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Editorial note

It's almost like trying to apply the same risks and restrictions on 18wheeler trucks, cars, and matchbox toys.

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Quick take

A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of matchbox gathered in one view.

noun

A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.

noun

Any small, die-cast toy car, usually a collectible.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for matchbox.

noun

A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.

noun

Any small, die-cast toy car, usually a collectible.

Example sentences

It's almost like trying to apply the same risks and restrictions on 18wheeler trucks, cars, and matchbox toys.

It bore the same relationship to the actual event that a QVC infomercial about Matchbox cars does to a real Corvette.

That's like getting a matchbox car and thinking you suddenly own a full-blown porche.

One picture has a matchbox for comparison, based on that it appear to be the size of a hockey puck (about 8cm diameter).

I have a personal office which is bigger than my matchbox bedroom in SF (ok, equal size).

I'll second Social Matchbox as a good place to learn about startups in the DC area.

A small matchbox-size device would just plain be too awkward to use.

Spending that much to live inside a matchbox can't be ok.

And stuff like the flexible track used by Mattel's Matchbox cars.

She plays with Matchbox cars, but again, she is more interested in building rich stories for them and having the cars talk to each other than racing them.

There's one animation that I think compares it to a matchbox.

To reduce the more diverse type of vertebrates, with more than 30.000 extant species, to the behaviour of a goldfish put in a matchbox of water is extreme oversimplification.

Quote examples

They're Cray 2 supercomputers (well, "super" back in the day) shrunk into a matchbox and include, as one tiny program making use of the mic/speaker/radio, a "telephone"-like capability.