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Mate   /meɪt/   Listen
noun
Mate  n.  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.


Mate  n.  (Chess) Same as Checkmate.


Mate  n.  
1.
One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
2.
Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
3.
A suitable companion; a match; an equal. "Ye knew me once no mate For you; there sitting where you durst not soar."
4.
(Naut.) 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.


verb
Mate  v. t.  
1.
To confuse; to confound. (Obs.)
2.
To checkmate.


Mate  v. t.  (past & past part. mated; pres. part. mating)  
1.
To match; to marry. "If she be mated with an equal husband."
2.
To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death." "I,... in the way of loyalty and truth,... Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be."
3.
To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.
4.
To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches.


Mate  v. i.  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.


adjective
Mate  adj.  See 2d Mat. (Obs.)





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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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