Engelsk navneord: mate | |||
1. | mate (om person) the officer below the master on a commercial ship | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | first mate | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | officer, ship's officer | ||
2. | mate (om person) a fellow member of a team | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It was his first start against his former teammates. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | teammate | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | associate | ||
3. | mate (om person) the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He loved the mare and all her mates. Camels hate leaving their mates. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna | ||
4. | mate (om person) a person's partner in marriage | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | better half, married person, partner, spouse | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | domestic partner, relation, relative, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent | ||
Mere specifikke termer | bigamist, consort, helpmate, helpmeet, honeymooner, hubby, husband, married man, married woman, monogamist, monogynist, newlywed, polygamist, wife | ||
Tilhører disse overordnede termer | man and wife, marriage, married couple | ||
5. | mate (om genstand) an exact duplicate | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | When a match is found an entry is made in the notebook. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | match | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | duplicate, duplication | ||
6. | mate (om mængde el. mål) one of a pair | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He lost the mate to his shoe. One eye was blue but its fellow was brown. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | fellow | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | singleton | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede termer | brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke | ||
7. | mate (om plante) South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | holly | ||
8. | mate (om person) informal term for a friend of the same sex | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | friend | ||
Overordnet (geografisk) region | Australia, Britain, Commonwealth of Australia, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ||
9. | mate (om mad) South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | beverage, drink, drinkable, potable | ||
10. | mate (om handling) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | checkmate | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | chess move | ||
Engelsk udsagnsord: mate | |||
1. | mate (om relation) engage in sexual intercourse | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Birds mate in the Spring. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | copulate, couple, pair | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | conjoin, join | ||
Mere specifikke termer | bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, breed, bugger, cover, deflower, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, mount, nick, ride, roll in the hay, ruin, screw, serve, service, sleep together, sleep with, sodomise, sodomise, sodomize, sodomize, tread | ||
2. | mate (om relation) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | couple, match, pair, twin | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | bring together, join | ||
Mere specifikke termer | mismatch, mismate | ||
Udsagnsord med lignende betydning | match | ||
3. | mate (om konkurrence) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | checkmate | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | ||
Overordnet emneområde | chess, chess game | ||