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mates
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Princeton's WordNet
couple, mates, matchnoun
a pair of people who live together
"a married couple from Chicago"
Wiktionary
matesadjective
Friendly; having a friendship (with).
He is mates with my brother.
matésnoun
Plural form of maté.
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In general, the term "mates" refers to friends, companions, or partners. It is often used in British, Australian, and New Zealand English to refer to close friends. In the context of animal behavior, "mates" can also refer to a pair of animals that have chosen to partner for breeding purposes. Moreover, in the context of marriage or long-term relationships, a person's 'mate' may refer to their spouse or significant other.
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Mates
Mates is a 2007 animation short film directed by Martin Thoburn.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
MATES
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mates is ranked #39419 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Mates surname appeared 558 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mates.
82.2% or 459 total occurrences were White.
7.3% or 41 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
4.6% or 26 total occurrences were Black.
3.2% or 18 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mates in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mates in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of mates in a Sentence
I regret my choice to spend time together with my team mates in our hotel room and away from the locker room areas.
We are stuck here now, everyone is pretty shocked at the moment, most of my mates are in the same position.
The narcissism among some of my team mates made me want to vomit, all they could think about was their goddamn climb, when hours before we were holding crushed skulls in our hands.
It brought back stuff that I have put down in me, this emotion that’s down there. To watch it from that distance and not know what was going to happen, it was scary, but credit to the medical staff. They have done an amazing job on Christian. I like how his team mates got together to protect him.
Males typically invest more into their ornamentation than do females, so the larger wide plates were likely from males, the broad, thin structure of the plates and their positioning on the back of the animal suggests that they were used in sexual display, analogous to the tail of a peacock. The broad, wide plates likely made a continuous display surface along the animal's back to attract mates, like a billboard.
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- mátésFrench
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