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Definition of 'MATE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) mate
a husband or wife; spouse.

2.  mate
one member of a pair of mated animals.

3.  mate
one of a pair:
a mate of a glove.

4.  mate
an associate or companion.

5.  mate
an assistant to a warrant officer or other functionary on a ship.

6.  mate
an aide, as to a skilled worker.

7.  mate
Archaic. peer; match.

8. (v.t.) mate
to join as mates.

9.  mate
to bring (animals) together for breeding.

10.  mate
to join or associate suitably; couple.

11.  mate
to treat as comparable.

12. (v.i.) mate
to become mated.

13.  mate
to copulate.

14.  mate
to marry.

Etymology: (1175–1225; ME mat defeated (adj.), defeat (n.) < OF &indirdesc; Pers)

Definition of 'MATE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) mate, first mate
the officer below the master on a commercial ship

2. (noun) teammate, mate
a fellow member of a team
"it was his first start against his former teammates"

3. (noun) mate
the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
"he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates"

4. (noun) spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half
a person's partner in marriage

5. (noun) match, mate
an exact duplicate
"when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook"

6. (noun) mate, fellow
one of a pair
"he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"

7. (noun) mate, Paraguay tea, Ilex paraguariensis
South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea

8. (noun) mate
informal term for a friend of the same sex

9. (noun) mate
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate

10. (verb) checkmate, mate
a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king

11. (verb) copulate, mate, pair, couple
engage in sexual intercourse
"Birds mate in the Spring"

12. (verb) match, mate, couple, pair, twin
bring two objects, ideas, or people together
"This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

13. (verb) checkmate, mate
place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
"Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"

Definition of 'MATE'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) mate
an animal's or person's sexual partner
time for the ostrich to choose a mate

2. mate
a friend
Thanks, mate!; Jimmy and his mates

3. (verb) mate
(of an animal) to have sex with another animal
the time of year when lions mate

Definition of 'MATE'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) MATE
see 2d Mat

2. (noun) MATE
the Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America

3. (noun) MATE
same as Checkmate

4. (noun) MATE
one who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object

5. (noun) MATE
hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young

6. (noun) MATE
a suitable companion; a match; an equal

7. (noun) MATE
an officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate

8. (verb) MATE
to confuse; to confound

9. (verb) MATE
to checkmate

10. (verb) MATE
to match; to marry

11. (verb) MATE
to match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with

12. (verb) MATE
to be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one

Translation of 'MATE'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to come, or bring (animals etc), together for breeding The bears have mated and produced a cub.
Afrikaans: paar	Arabic: يُزاوِج	Bulgarian: чифтосвам
Brazilian: acasalar	Czech: (s)pářit (se)	German: sich paaren
Danish: parre; parre sig	Greek: ζευγαρώνω	Spanish: aparear, acoplar
Estonian: paarituma	Farsi: جفت گیری	Finnish: paritella
French: (s')accoupler	Hebrew: לְזַווֵג	Hindi: मित्र
Croatian: spariti	Hungarian: párosít; párosodik	Indonesian: kawin
Icelandic: maka sig	Italian: accoppiarsi	Japanese: つがう
Korean: 짝을 이루다	Lithuanian: poruoti(s)	Latvian: pārot; pāroties
Malay: mengawan	Dutch: paren	Norwegian: pare (seg)
Polish: parzyć (się)	Persian: جفت گیری	Pashto: نسل نيونه
Portuguese: acasalar	Romanian: a seîmperechea	Russian: спаривать(ся)
Slovak: (s)páriť (sa)	Slovenian: pariti se	Serbian: pariti se
Swedish: para sig	Thai: จับคู่ผสมพันธุ์	Turkish: çiftleş(tir)mek
Taiwanese: 交配，使交配	Ukrainian: спаровуватися	Urdu: جانوروں کی جفتی لگوانا
Vietnamese: giao phối	Chinese: 交配，使...交配
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