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mate [má.ti.] : checkmate (v.); mate (v.)

Derivatives of mate


Glosses:
checkmate
n. (event)1. checkmatecomplete victory.
~ triumph, victorya successful ending of a struggle or contest.; "a narrow victory"; "the general always gets credit for his army's victory"; "clinched a victory"; "convincing victory"; "the agreement was a triumph for common sense"
n. (act)2. checkmate, matea chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king.
~ chess movethe act of moving a chess piece.
v. (competition)3. checkmate, mateplace 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"
~ chess game, chessa board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king.
~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shellcome out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
mate
n. (person)1. first mate, matethe officer below the master on a commercial ship.
~ ship's officer, officera person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel.; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"
n. (person)2. mate, teammatea fellow member of a team.; "it was his first start against his former teammates"
~ associatea person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing"
n. (person)3. matethe partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner).; "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates"
~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, faunaa living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
n. (person)4. better half, married person, mate, partner, spousea person's partner in marriage.
~ man and wife, married couple, marriagetwo people who are married to each other.; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"
~ bigamistsomeone who marries one person while already legally married to another.
~ consortthe husband or wife of a reigning monarch.
~ domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalenta person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship.
~ helpmate, helpmeeta helpful partner.
~ hubby, husband, married mana married man; a woman's partner in marriage.
~ relative, relationa person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
~ monogamist, monogynistsomeone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time).
~ honeymooner, newlywedsomeone recently married.
~ polygamistsomeone who is married to two or more people at the same time.
~ married woman, wifea married woman; a man's partner in marriage.
n. (artifact)5. match, matean exact duplicate.; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook"
~ duplication, duplicatea copy that corresponds to an original exactly.; "he made a duplicate for the files"
n. (quantity)6. fellow, mateone of a pair.; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"
~ singletona single object (as distinguished from a pair).
~ couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, twain, twosome, brace, pair, span, yoke, coupletwo items of the same kind.
n. (plant)7. ilex paraguariensis, mate, paraguay teaSouth American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea.
~ hollyany tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges.
n. (person)8. mateinformal term for a friend of the same sex.
~ australia, commonwealth of australiaa nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony.
~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern irelanda monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom.
~ frienda person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university"
n. (food)9. mateSouth American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate.
~ beverage, drinkable, potable, drinkany liquid suitable for drinking.; "may I take your beverage order?"
v. (contact)10. copulate, couple, mate, pairengage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring"
~ nickmate successfully; of livestock.
~ conjoin, joinmake contact or come together.; "The two roads join here"
~ be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, hump, jazz, bed, love, bang, make out, knowhave sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
~ treadmate with.; "male birds tread the females"
~ service, servemate with.; "male animals serve the females for breeding purposes"
~ deflower, ruindeprive of virginity.; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"
~ mount, ridecopulate with.; "The bull was riding the cow"
~ breed, covercopulate with a female, used especially of horses.; "The horse covers the mare"
~ bugger, sodomise, sodomizepractice anal sex upon.
~ sodomise, sodomizecopulate with an animal.
v. (contact)11. couple, match, mate, pair, twinbring 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"
~ matchgive or join in marriage.
~ mismateprovide with an unsuitable mate.
~ mismatchmatch badly; match two objects or people that do not go together.
~ bring together, joincause to become joined or linked.; "join these two parts so that they fit together"