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Mate   /meɪt/   Listen
noun
Mate  n.  The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.


Mate  n.  (Chess) Same as Checkmate.


Mate  n.  
1.
One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
2.
Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
3.
A suitable companion; a match; an equal. "Ye knew me once no mate For you; there sitting where you durst not soar."
4.
(Naut.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.


verb
Mate  v. t.  
1.
To confuse; to confound. (Obs.)
2.
To checkmate.


Mate  v. t.  (past & past part. mated; pres. part. mating)  
1.
To match; to marry. "If she be mated with an equal husband."
2.
To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death." "I,... in the way of loyalty and truth,... Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be."
3.
To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.
4.
To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches.


Mate  v. i.  To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.


adjective
Mate  adj.  See 2d Mat. (Obs.)





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"Mate" Quotes from Famous Books



... galley-slave; but Caesar told stories, sang songs, declaimed with endless good humor. Chains bound Caesar to the oars, and his words bound the pirates to himself. That night he supped with the captain. The second day his knowledge of currents, coasts and the route of treasure-ships made him first mate; then he won the sailors over, put the captain in irons, and ruled the ship like a king; soon after, he sailed the ship as a prize into a Roman port. If this incident is credible, a youth who in four days can talk the chains off his ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
... hearing now a robin sing, I wonder if his English mate May not be hopping near your gate, A harbinger, with ours, ...
— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland
... into a Wandsworth police station. One was a very angry Irishman, the other a profane Scot, whose language, which struck respectful awe to the hearts of two constables, a sergeant, and an inspector—would have done credit to the most eloquent mate in the mercantile marine. ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer
... dove, though seas divide, I'll seek my lonely mate; But if afar I find a grave, You'll mourn ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord
... feet further down the canon are a pair of twisted wings that show the animal to have perished in company with its mate, while trying to escape from a sudden flood that rushed down the ...
— Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills • Luella Agnes Owen


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