| compatible | | |
| adj. | 1. compatible | able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination.; "a compatible married couple"; "her deeds were compatible with her ideology" |
| ~ congenial | (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted. |
| ~ congruous | suitable or appropriate together. |
| ~ harmonious | existing together in harmony.; "harmonious family relationships" |
| ~ congenial | suitable to your needs.; "a congenial atmosphere to work in"; "two congenial spirits united...by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues" |
| ~ harmonious | musically pleasing. |
| ~ matched | going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities. |
| adj. | 2. compatible | capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification. |
| ~ computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically. |
| adj. | 3. compatible | capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction. |
| ~ miscible, mixable | (chemistry, physics) capable of being mixed. |
| complementary | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. complementary, complementary color | either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments).; "yellow and blue are complementaries" |
| ~ chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | a color that has hue. |
| adj. | 2. complementary | of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other.; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms" |
| ~ antonymous | of words: having opposite meanings. |
| adj. | 3. complemental, complementary, completing | acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole). |
| ~ additive | characterized or produced by addition.; "an additive process" |
| pare | | |
| v. (change) | 1. pare, pare down | decrease gradually or bit by bit. |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| v. (contact) | 2. pare, whittle | cut small bits or pare shavings from.; "whittle a piece of wood" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 3. pare, peel, skin | strip the skin off.; "pare apples" |
| ~ peel off | peel off the outer layer of something. |
| ~ strip | remove the surface from.; "strip wood" |
| ~ flay | strip the skin off. |
| v. (contact) | 4. pare, trim | remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size.; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber" |
| ~ dress | cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| mate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. first mate, mate | the officer below the master on a commercial ship. |
| ~ ship's officer, officer | a 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, teammate | a fellow member of a team.; "it was his first start against his former teammates" |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| n. (person) | 3. mate | the 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, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| n. (person) | 4. better half, married person, mate, partner, spouse | a person's partner in marriage. |
| ~ man and wife, married couple, marriage | two people who are married to each other.; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" |
| ~ bigamist | someone who marries one person while already legally married to another. |
| ~ consort | the husband or wife of a reigning monarch. |
| ~ domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent | a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship. |
| ~ helpmate, helpmeet | a helpful partner. |
| ~ hubby, husband, married man | a married man; a woman's partner in marriage. |
| ~ relative, relation | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| ~ monogamist, monogynist | someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time). |
| ~ honeymooner, newlywed | someone recently married. |
| ~ polygamist | someone who is married to two or more people at the same time. |
| ~ married woman, wife | a married woman; a man's partner in marriage. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. match, mate | an exact duplicate.; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook" |
| ~ duplication, duplicate | a copy that corresponds to an original exactly.; "he made a duplicate for the files" |
| n. (quantity) | 6. fellow, mate | one of a pair.; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" |
| ~ singleton | a single object (as distinguished from a pair). |
| ~ couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, twain, twosome, brace, pair, span, yoke, couple | two items of the same kind. |
| n. (plant) | 7. ilex paraguariensis, mate, paraguay tea | South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea. |
| ~ holly | any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges. |
| n. (person) | 8. mate | informal term for a friend of the same sex. |
| ~ australia, commonwealth of australia | a 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 ireland | a 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. |
| ~ friend | a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university" |
| n. (food) | 9. mate | South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate. |
| ~ beverage, drinkable, potable, drink | any liquid suitable for drinking.; "may I take your beverage order?" |
| n. (act) | 10. checkmate, mate | a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king. |
| ~ chess move | the act of moving a chess piece. |
| v. (contact) | 11. copulate, couple, mate, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| ~ nick | mate successfully; of livestock. |
| ~ conjoin, join | make 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, know | have sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
| ~ tread | mate with.; "male birds tread the females" |
| ~ service, serve | mate with.; "male animals serve the females for breeding purposes" |
| ~ deflower, ruin | deprive of virginity.; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village" |
| ~ mount, ride | copulate with.; "The bull was riding the cow" |
| ~ breed, cover | copulate with a female, used especially of horses.; "The horse covers the mare" |
| ~ bugger, sodomise, sodomize | practice anal sex upon. |
| ~ sodomise, sodomize | copulate with an animal. |
| v. (contact) | 12. couple, match, mate, pair, twin | 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" |
| ~ match | give or join in marriage. |
| ~ mismate | provide with an unsuitable mate. |
| ~ mismatch | match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together. |
| ~ bring together, join | cause to become joined or linked.; "join these two parts so that they fit together" |
| v. (competition) | 13. checkmate, mate | 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" |
| ~ chess game, chess | a 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, shell | come 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" |
| pair | | |
| n. (group) | 1. brace, pair | a set of two similar things considered as a unit. |
| ~ tweedledee and tweedledum, tweedledum and tweedledee | any two people who are hard to tell apart. |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
| n. (quantity) | 2. brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke | two items of the same kind. |
| ~ fellow, mate | one of a pair.; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" |
| ~ 2, ii, two, deuce | the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number. |
| ~ doubleton | (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player. |
| n. (group) | 3. pair | two people considered as a unit. |
| ~ assemblage, gathering | a group of persons together in one place. |
| ~ couple, twosome, duet, duo | a pair who associate with one another.; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" |
| ~ yoke | a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke.; "pulled by a yoke of oxen" |
| n. (group) | 4. pair | a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value. |
| ~ poker hand | the 5 cards held in a game of poker. |
| v. (social) | 5. couple, pair, pair off, partner off | form a pair or pairs.; "The two old friends paired off" |
| ~ unite, unify | act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief. |
| v. (contact) | 6. geminate, pair | occur in pairs. |
| ~ geminate, pair | arrange in pairs.; "Pair these numbers" |
| ~ occur | to be found to exist.; "sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil" |
| v. (contact) | 7. geminate, pair | arrange in pairs.; "Pair these numbers" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| ~ geminate, pair | occur in pairs. |
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