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Mate

noun

1.

The officer below the master on a commercial ship. Synonym: first mate.

2.

A fellow member of a team. Synonym: teammate.

3.

The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner). "Camels hate leaving their mates"

4.

A person's partner in marriage. Synonyms: better half, married person, partner, spouse.

5.

An exact duplicate. Synonym: match.

6.

One of a pair. Synonym: fellow. "One eye was blue but its fellow was brown"

7.

South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea. Synonyms: Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea.

8.

Informal term for a friend of the same sex.

9.

South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate.

10.

A chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king. Synonym: checkmate.

verb

(past & past part. mated; pres. part. mating)

1.

Engage in sexual intercourse. Synonyms: copulate, couple, pair.

2.

Bring two objects, ideas, or people together. Synonyms: couple, match, pair, twin. "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

3.

Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game. Synonym: checkmate.

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"Mate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Poor little devils! they don't know what it is. It seemed all very fine to that wee chap from Inverary who came with his father to see the ship before he joined. How the eyes of him glinted as he looked about, proud of his brass-bound clothes and badge cap. And the Mate, all smiles, showing them over the ship and telling the old Hielan' clergyman what a fine vessel she was, and what an interest he took in boys, and what fine times they had on board ship, and all that! Ah yes—fine times! It's as well the old chap doesn't know what he is sending ...

— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone

... strike him. He rang the telephone with fury, and it didn't improve his temper to hear the saucy little central informing her elbow mate that "that ol' fellah wuz burnin' the ...

— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut

... with the red-brown breast came with his mate, and built a nest close to the hunter's home lodge. In the nest, that summer, there grew up five little birds, and they, too, ...

— Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children • Mabel Powers

... astounded, 'is your master then married?—since when?'—visions of a fair Tartar, fit mate for my baron, immediately springing somewhat alluringly before my mental vision. But the ...

— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various

... song, with just enough feathers for wings to enable him to pursue caterpillars and grasshoppers as raw material for the production of more song. He sang at the prospect of a home; then he sang to attract and win a mate; more song at the joy of finding wonderful grass and feathers; again melody to beguile his mate, patiently giving the hours and days of her body-warmth in instinct-compelled belief in the future. He sang ...

— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

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