English noun: mate | |||
1. | mate (person) the officer below the master on a commercial ship | ||
Synonyms | first mate | ||
Broader (hypernym) | officer, ship's officer | ||
2. | mate (person) a fellow member of a team | ||
Samples | It was his first start against his former teammates. | ||
Synonyms | teammate | ||
Broader (hypernym) | associate | ||
3. | mate (person) the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | ||
Samples | He loved the mare and all her mates. Camels hate leaving their mates. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna | ||
4. | mate (person) a person's partner in marriage | ||
Synonyms | better half, married person, partner, spouse | ||
Broader (hypernym) | domestic partner, relation, relative, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bigamist, consort, helpmate, helpmeet, honeymooner, hubby, husband, married man, married woman, monogamist, monogynist, newlywed, polygamist, wife | ||
Member meronym | man and wife, marriage, married couple | ||
5. | mate (artifact) an exact duplicate | ||
Samples | When a match is found an entry is made in the notebook. | ||
Synonyms | match | ||
Broader (hypernym) | duplicate, duplication | ||
6. | mate (quantity) one of a pair | ||
Samples | He lost the mate to his shoe. One eye was blue but its fellow was brown. | ||
Synonyms | fellow | ||
Broader (hypernym) | singleton | ||
Part meronym | brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke | ||
7. | mate (plant) South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | ||
Synonyms | Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea | ||
Broader (hypernym) | holly | ||
8. | mate (person) informal term for a friend of the same sex | ||
Broader (hypernym) | friend | ||
Domain region | Australia, Britain, Commonwealth of Australia, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ||
9. | mate (food) South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | ||
Broader (hypernym) | beverage, drink, drinkable, potable | ||
10. | mate (act) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | ||
Synonyms | checkmate | ||
Broader (hypernym) | chess move | ||
English verb: mate | |||
1. | mate (contact) engage in sexual intercourse | ||
Samples | Birds mate in the Spring. | ||
Synonyms | copulate, couple, pair | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | conjoin, join | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | 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 (contact) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | couple, match, pair, twin | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bring together, join | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | mismatch, mismate | ||
Verb group | match | ||
3. | mate (competition) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | ||
Samples | Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves. | ||
Synonyms | checkmate | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | ||
Domain category | chess, chess game | ||