Engelsk substantiv: mate | |||
1. | mate (om person) the officer below the master on a commercial ship | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | first mate | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | teammate | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | 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 spesifikke uttrykk | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna | ||
4. | mate (om person) a person's partner in marriage | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | better half, married person, partner, spouse | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | domestic partner, relation, relative, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | bigamist, consort, helpmate, helpmeet, honeymooner, hubby, husband, married man, married woman, monogamist, monogynist, newlywed, polygamist, wife | ||
Tilhører disse overordnede uttrykkene | man and wife, marriage, married couple | ||
5. | mate (om gjenstand) an exact duplicate | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | When a match is found an entry is made in the notebook. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | match | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | duplicate, duplication | ||
6. | mate (om mengde eller 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | fellow | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | singleton | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede uttrykkene | 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 | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | holly | ||
8. | mate (om person) informal term for a friend of the same sex | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | friend | ||
Overordnet region | Australia, Britain, Commonwealth of Australia, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ||
9. | mate (om mat) South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | beverage, drink, drinkable, potable | ||
10. | mate (om handling) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | checkmate | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | chess move | ||
Engelsk verb: mate | |||
1. | mate (om relasjon) engage in sexual intercourse | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Birds mate in the Spring. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | copulate, couple, pair | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | conjoin, join | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 relasjon) 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | couple, match, pair, twin | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | bring together, join | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | mismatch, mismate | ||
Utsagnsord med lignende betydning | match | ||
3. | mate (om konkurranse) 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | checkmate | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | ||
Overordnet kategori | chess, chess game | ||