Mated

4 definitions found

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

  mated \mated\ adj.
     1. Brought together for sexual activity; bred; -- of animals.
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     2. Sorted into pairs of identical size, color, or other
        properties; -- used of gloves, socks, etc.


  
     Syn: paired.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. Same as {married}. Opposite of {unmarried}; as, they were
        a devoted couple, mated for life.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mated
       adj 1: mated sexually [ant: {unmated}]
       2: used of gloves, socks, etc. [syn: {paired}]
       3: of or relating to a marriage partner

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

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "mated":
     allied, assembled, associated, banded together, biconjugate,
     bigeminate, bijugate, bound, bracketed, collected, conjoined,
     conjugate, conjugated, connected, copulate, coupled, gathered,
     hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, incorporated, integrated, intimate,
     joined, knotted, leagued, linked, married, matched, merged, one,
     paired, partnered, spliced, tied, undivided, united, unseparated,
     wedded, yoked