| mate | | |
| n. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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). |
| ~ duo, twosome, couplet, distich, duad, duet, twain, dyad, pair, brace, span, yoke, couple | two items of the same kind. |
| n. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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" |
| ~ sleep with, have it away, have it off, have sex, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, have intercourse, have a go at it, be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, get laid, fuck, get it on, jazz, hump, love, bed, 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. | 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. | 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" |
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