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Mating   /mˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Mating

noun
1.
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.  Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, pairing, sexual union, union.  "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"


Mate

verb
(past & past part. mated; pres. part. mating)
1.
Engage in sexual intercourse.  Synonyms: copulate, couple, pair.
2.
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together.  Synonyms: couple, match, pair, twin.  "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
3.
Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.  Synonym: checkmate.



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"Mating" Quotes from Famous Books



... needle from the haystack of socks and shirts that towered above her. She ran her hand through hundreds of garments in the day's work. Some required her attention. Some were guiltless of rent or hole. She never thought of mating them. That was the sorter's work. But with Eddie's socks it was different. They had not, as yet, required the work of her machine needle. She told her self, whimsically, that when the time came to set her crude work next to the masterly effects ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
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... youth, at seventeen the Bulgarian girl are marriageable, and their parents set about the work of mating them as quickly as possible. Marriages are almost always arranged by the parents, and it is not usual for husband and wife to come from different communes. After marriage the Bulgarian wife is supposed to devote herself exclusively to family life and not to wish for any social ...
— Bulgaria • Frank Fox
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... through their fur coats, and her own trembled a little....It suddenly came to her that she no longer owed Mortimer anything. Their "partnership" had been dissolved by his own act. If she could have loved Jimmie Thorne with something beyond the agreeable response of the mating-season (any season is the mating season in California)...that was the trouble. He was not individual enough to hold her. Life had been too kind to him. Save for this unsatisfied passion he was perfectly content with life. Such men do ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
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... Barkdale; "you improve the occasion better than I could. But, doctor, how about our callous widow bluebird finding another mate after the mating season ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
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... he knew that the boy might change his clothes, but neither his character nor his patriotism. He voted independently; he was never a party man; thus, public office was never thrust in his way. Perhaps he was too frankly honest. He never worried when his son reached the mating age. "Whoever my boy marries will be the woman he loves, and he is too much his father's son not to love among his equals." He was a college-bred man besides, but few knew this. He had an eye for paintings, an ear for music, and a heart for a good book. It is this ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath
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