MATING • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Mating

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/mˈeɪtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Mate v. t.

To confuse; to confound. (Obs.)

To checkmate.

Mate v. t. (past & past part. mated; pres. part. mating)

To match; to marry. "If she be mated with an equal husband."

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."

To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.

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.

See images of 'Mating'

Etymology of 'Mating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Mating" Quotes from Famous Books

... supreme for a little while in here. It gives me rather an ache to see them, all the same" - after a pause - "they make me dream of the smell of the new woodland, that delicious, damp, earthy smell of spring, and all the young, joyful bursting of buds and springing of seeds and the mating birds, and the showers that make the leaves glisten. I feel as if I should like to tramp out across the country in such a shower, and get healthily wet, and be a real bit of the spring for ...

— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page

... antlers are grown and shed each year, reaching perfection in autumn for the mating season. They are found in the males only, except in the caribou, in which species the females ...

— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... past, he yielded to that law which dominates the kindred of the wild, preventing them from courting danger uselessly, whose lives are sufficiently filled with danger in their ordinary routine of feeding and mating. ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... first came I had a notion of mating in with some diggers, but when I saw how quiet everybody took it, and what thousands of strangers there were all over the place, I gave myself out for a speculator in mining shares from Melbourne. So I shaved off most of my beard, ...

— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... is opened, now the Hunting Winds are loose— Now the Smokes of Spring go up to clear the brain; Now the Young Men's hearts are troubled for the whisper of the Trues, Now the Red Gods make their medicine again! Who hath seen the beaver busied? Who hath watched the black-tail mating? Who hath lain alone to hear the wild-goose cry? Who hath worked the chosen water where the ouananiche is waiting, Or the sea-trout's jumping—crazy ...

— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace

More quotes...