Mate

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mate \Mate\, a.
     See 2d {Mat}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Mate \Ma"te\ (m[aum]"t[asl]), n. [Sp.]
     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mate \Mate\ (m[=a]t), n. [F. mat, abbrev. fr. ['e]chec et mat.
     See {Checkmate}.] (Chess)
     Same as {Checkmate}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mate \Mate\, v. t. [F. mater to fatigue, enfeeble, humiliate,
     checkmate. See {Mate} checkmate.]
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     1. To confuse; to confound. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     2. To checkmate.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mate \Mate\, n. [Perhaps for older make a companion; cf. also
     OD. maet companion, mate, D. maat. Cf. {Make} a companion,
     {Match} a mate.]
     1. One who customarily associates with another; a companion;
        an associate; any object which is associated or combined
        with a similar object.
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     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.
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     3. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
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              Ye knew me once no mate
              For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.
                                                    --Milton.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mate \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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mate \Mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Mating}.]
     1. To match; to marry.
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              If she be mated with an equal husband. --Shak.
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     2. To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to
        compete with.
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              There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but
              it mates and masters the fear of death. --Bacon.
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              I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . .
              Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. --Shak.
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     3. To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of
        breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mate
       n 1: the officer below the master on a commercial ship [syn: {first
            mate}]
       2: a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against
          his former teammates" [syn: {teammate}]
       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}, {better half}]
       5: an exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made
          in the notebook" [syn: {match}]
       6: South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
          [syn: {Paraguay tea}, {Ilex paraguariensis}]
       7: informal term for a friend of the same sex
       8: South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South
          American holly called mate
       9: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible
          attack on the opponent's king [syn: {checkmate}]
       v 1: make love; "Birds mate in the Spring" [syn: {copulate}, {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},
           {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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  244 Moby Thesaurus words for "mate":
     OD, accompanier, accompanist, accompanyist, ace, acquaintance,
     ally, alter ego, amigo, analogon, analogue, associate, attendant,
     ball, be intimate, be made one, be spliced, become one, bedfellow,
     bedmate, better half, birthmate, boatswain, bosom buddy, bracket,
     breed, bride, brother, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade,
     captain, chamberfellow, chap, chief engineer, chief mate, china,
     chum, classmate, close copy, close match, clubmate, co-worker,
     coequal, cognate, cohabit, cohort, colleague, comate,
     come together, commander, commit adultery, companion,
     companion piece, company, compeer, complement, comrade,
     concomitant, confidant, confrere, congenator, congener, conjugate,
     consociate, consort, contract matrimony, coordinate, copartner,
     copemate, copesmate, copulate, copy, correlate, correlative,
     correspondent, couchmate, counterpart, couple, couple up, cover,
     cradlemate, crony, crossbreed, cupmate, dead ringer, deck officer,
     diddle, ditto, double, double-harness, double-team, duplicate,
     effigy, equal, equipollent, equivalent, espouse, exact likeness,
     familiar, fellow, fellow student, fit together, fornicate, friend,
     frig, general partner, generate, get hitched, girl friend, gossip,
     have sex, have sexual relations, helpmate, helpmeet, hitch, hubby,
     husband, icon, idol, image, intermarry, interwed, intimate,
     jailmate, join, kindred spirit, lay, lie with, like, likeness,
     link up, living image, living picture, make it with, make love,
     make out, marry, master, match, messmate, miniature, mirroring,
     miscegenate, model, mount, naval officer, navigating officer,
     navigator, near duplicate, obverse, old crony, opposite number,
     pair, pair off, pal, parallel, pard, pardner, partner, patron,
     peer, pendant, pewmate, photograph, picture, pipes, playfellow,
     playmate, portrait, procreate, quartermaster, reciprocal,
     reflection, remarry, resemblance, rewed, rival, roommate, rubbing,
     sailing master, schoolfellow, schoolmate, screw, second mate,
     second self, secret partner, semblance, serve, service, shadow,
     shelfmate, shipmaster, shipmate, shopmate, side partner, sidekick,
     sidekicker, silent partner, similitude, simulacrum, sister,
     skipper, sleep with, sleeping partner, soul mate, span,
     special partner, spit and image, spitting image, splice, spouse,
     such, suchlike, synchronize, tablemate, take to wife, tally, team,
     team up, teammate, tentmate, the Old Man, the like of,
     the likes of, tie, trace, tracing, twin, unite, very image,
     very picture, watch officer, watchmate, waymate, wed, wife, wive,
     workfellow, yoke, yokefellow, yokemate
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MATE. The second officer on board of a merchant ship or vessel. 
       2. He has the right to sue in the admiralty as a common mariner for 
  wages. 1. Pet. Adm. Dee. 246. 
       3. When, on the death of the master, the mate assumes the command, he 
  succeeds to the rights and duties of the principal officer. 1 Sumn. 157; 3 
  Mason, 161; 4 Mason, 196; See 7 Conn. 239; 4 Mason, 641 4 Wash. C. C. 838.