'Mate' definitions:
Definition of 'mate'
(from WordNet)
noun
The officer below the master on a commercial ship [syn: mate, first mate]
noun
A fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against his former teammates" [syn: teammate, mate]
noun
The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates"
noun
noun
An exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook" [syn: match, mate]
noun
One of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" [syn: mate, fellow]
noun
South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea [syn: mate, Paraguay tea, Ilex paraguariensis]
noun
Informal term for a friend of the same sex
noun
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
noun
A chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king [syn: checkmate, mate]
verb
verb
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" [syn: match, mate, couple, pair, twin]
verb
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" [syn: checkmate, mate]
Definition of 'Mate'
From: GCIDE
- Mate \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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mate'
From: GCIDE
- Mate \Ma"te\ (m[aum]"t[asl]), n. [Sp.] 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mate'
From: GCIDE
- Mate \Mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mated; p. pr. & vb. n. Mating.]
- 1. To match; to marry. [1913 Webster]
- If she be mated with an equal husband. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. [1913 Webster]
- There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd. [PJC]
- 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. [PJC]
Definition of 'Mate'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Mate'
From: GCIDE
- Mate \Mate\, v. t. [F. mater to fatigue, enfeeble, humiliate, checkmate. See Mate checkmate.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To confuse; to confound. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To checkmate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mate'
From: GCIDE
- Mate \Mate\, n. [Perhaps for older make a companion; cf. also OD. maet companion, mate, D. maat. Cf. Make a companion, Match a mate.]
- 1. One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A suitable companion; a match; an equal. [1913 Webster]
- Ye knew me once no mate For you; there sitting where you durst not soar. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accompanier,
- accompanist,
- accompanyist,
- ace,
- acquaintance,
- ally,
- alter ego,
- amigo,
- analogon,
- analogue,
- associate,
- attendant,
- ball,
- be intimate,
- be made one,
- be spliced,
- become one,
- bedfellow,
- bedmate,
- better half,
- birthmate,
- boatswain,
- bosom buddy,
- bracket,
- breed,
- bride,
- brother,
- buddy,
- bunkie,
- bunkmate,
- butty,
- camarade,
- captain,
- chamberfellow,
- chap,
- chief engineer,
- chief mate,
- china,
- chum,
- classmate,
- close copy,
- close match,
- clubmate,
- co-worker,
- coequal,
- cognate,
- cohabit,
- cohort,
- colleague,
- comate,
- come together,
- commander,
- commit adultery,
- companion,
- companion piece,
- company,
- compeer,
- complement,
- comrade,
- concomitant,
- confidant,
- confrere,
- congenator,
- congener,
- conjugate,
- consociate,
- consort,
- contract matrimony,
- coordinate,
- copartner,
- copemate,
- copesmate,
- copulate,
- copy,
- correlate,
- correlative,
- correspondent,
- couchmate,
- counterpart,
- couple,
- couple up,
- cover,
- cradlemate,
- crony,
- crossbreed,
- cupmate,
- dead ringer,
- deck officer,
- diddle,
- ditto,
- double,
- double-harness,
- double-team,
- duplicate,
- effigy,
- equal,
- equipollent,
- equivalent,
- espouse,
- exact likeness,
- familiar,
- fellow,
- fellow student,
- fit together,
- fornicate,
- friend,
- frig,
- general partner,
- generate,
- get hitched,
- girl friend,
- gossip,
- have sex,
- have sexual relations,
- helpmate,
- helpmeet,
- hitch,
- hubby,
- husband,
- icon,
- idol,
- image,
- intermarry,
- interwed,
- intimate,
- jailmate,
- join,
- kindred spirit,
- lay,
- lie with,
- like,
- likeness,
- link up,
- living image,
- living picture,
- make it with,
- make love,
- make out,
- marry,
- master,
- match,
- messmate,
- miniature,
- mirroring,
- miscegenate,
- model,
- mount,
- naval officer,
- navigating officer,
- navigator,
- near duplicate,
- obverse,
- OD,
- old crony,
- opposite number,
- pair,
- pair off,
- pal,
- parallel,
- pard,
- pardner,
- partner,
- patron,
- peer,
- pendant,
- pewmate,
- photograph,
- picture,
- pipes,
- playfellow,
- playmate,
- portrait,
- procreate,
- quartermaster,
- reciprocal,
- reflection,
- remarry,
- resemblance,
- rewed,
- rival,
- roommate,
- rubbing,
- sailing master,
- schoolfellow,
- schoolmate,
- screw,
- second mate,
- second self,
- secret partner,
- semblance,
- serve,
- service,
- shadow,
- shelfmate,
- shipmaster,
- shipmate,
- shopmate,
- side partner,
- sidekick,
- sidekicker,
- silent partner,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- sister,
- skipper,
- sleep with,
- sleeping partner,
- soul mate,
- span,
- special partner,
- spit and image,
- spitting image,
- splice,
- spouse,
- such,
- suchlike,
- synchronize,
- tablemate,
- take to wife,
- tally,
- team,
- team up,
- teammate,
- tentmate,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- the Old Man,
- tie,
- trace,
- tracing,
- twin,
- unite,
- very image,
- very picture,
- watch officer,
- watchmate,
- waymate,
- wed,
- wife,
- wive,
- workfellow,
- yoke,
- yokefellow,
- yokemate