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Mated   /mˈeɪtɪd/   Listen
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
mated  adj.  
1.
Brought together for sexual activity; bred; of animals.
2.
Sorted into pairs of identical size, color, or other properties; used of gloves, socks, etc.
Synonyms: paired.
3.
Same as married. Opposite of unmarried; as, they were a devoted couple, mated for life.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mated" Quotes from Famous Books



... and venders of small wares, and there was the largest and most splendidly recruited army of do-nothings that the sun ever shone upon. These forever-out-of-workers, leaning against every lamp post, fence picket, corner house, and barber pole in the vicinity, were all male, but they were mostly mated to women fully worthy of them, their wives doing nothing with equal assiduity in the back streets hard by.—Stay, they did one thing, they added copiously to the world's population; and indeed it seemed as if the families in the community that ought to have had ...
— The Girl and the Kingdom - Learning to Teach • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... indulgence of this pride; and miserable humbugs are looked up to and worshipped so much of the time, while those who could deserve and should command that feeling are treated with indifference or even despised by inferior minds to which they have been mated! They do not "manage these things" any "better in France," probably; but they manage them ill enough in republican America at about this period, and the result is not a pleasant or ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

... to the bush or the garden, flitted cheerily from bough to bough. Strangely mated are they! The male, in suit of black velvet, trimmed with sky blue, looks like a knight, attired for a palace festival:—while his lady-love—she resembles some peasant girl, silent and grateful, clothed in modest kirtle ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman

... multiply Ten thousand fould the sin of him who slew His Brother; for of whom such massacher Make they but of thir Brethren, men of men? But who was that Just Man, whom had not Heav'n Rescu'd, had in his Righteousness bin lost? To whom thus Michael; These are the product Of those ill-mated Marriages thou saw'st; 680 Where good with bad were matcht, who of themselves Abhor to joyn; and by imprudence mixt, Produce prodigious Births of bodie or mind. Such were these Giants, men of high renown; For in those dayes ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton

... were kingly, mated to martyrs (Silently, cheerfully, plodding along), Send all ye can of such great souls to help us, Make us and keep us triumphant ...
— Over the Top With the Third Australian Division • G. P. Cuttriss


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