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Meaning of mate
1 definition found From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: mate n 1: the officer below the master on a commercial ship [syn: {mate}, {first mate}] 2: a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against his former teammates" [syn: {teammate}, {mate}] 3: the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates" 4: a person's partner in marriage [syn: {spouse}, {partner}, {married person}, {mate}, {better half}] 5: an exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook" [syn: {match}, {mate}] 6: one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" [syn: {mate}, {fellow}] 7: South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea [syn: {mate}, {Paraguay tea}, {Ilex paraguariensis}] 8: informal term for a friend of the same sex 9: South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate 10: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king [syn: {checkmate}, {mate}] v 1: engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring" [syn: {copulate}, {mate}, {pair}, {couple}] 2: 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}] 3: 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}]
Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.
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