"mate" | Definition and Related Words

mate

Noun

The officer below the master on a commercial ship (synset 110319708)
is a type of: officer, ship's officer - a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel

same as: first mate
A fellow member of a team (synset 110714546)
"it was his first start against his former teammates"

is a type of: associate - a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor

same as: teammate
The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) (synset 110319970)
"he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates"

is a type of: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
A person's partner in marriage (synset 110660018)
is a type of:
- domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent - a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship
- relation, relative - a person related by blood or marriage
subtypes:
- bigamist - someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
- consort - the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
- helpmate, helpmeet - a helpful partner
- hubby, husband, married man - a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
- monogamist, monogynist - someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time)
- honeymooner, newlywed - someone recently married
- polygamist - someone who is married to two or more people at the same time
- married woman, wife - a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
belongs to: man and wife, marriage, married couple - two people who are married to each other

same as: better half, married person, partner, spouse
An exact duplicate (synset 103734302)
"when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook"

is a type of: duplicate, duplication - a copy that corresponds to an original exactly

same as: match
One of a pair (synset 113765240)
"he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"

is a type of: singleton - a single object (as distinguished from a pair)

is a part of: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke - two items of the same kind

same as: fellow
South American holly;
Leaves used in making a drink like tea (synset 112778428)
is a type of: holly - any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges

same as: ilex paraguariensis, paraguay tea
Informal term for a friend of the same sex (synset 110319821)
domain region:
- australia, commonwealth of australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
- britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
is a type of: friend - a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate (synset 107943025)
is a type of: beverage, drink, drinkable, potable - any liquid suitable for drinking
A chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king (synset 100168585)
is a type of: chess move - the act of moving a chess piece

same as: checkmate

Verb

Engage in sexual intercourse (synset 201431486)
"Birds mate in the Spring"

is a type of: conjoin, join - make contact or come together
subtypes:
- nick - mate successfully; of livestock
- bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, 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, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with - have sexual intercourse with
- tread - mate with
- serve, service - mate with
- deflower, ruin - deprive of virginity
- mount, ride - copulate with
- breed, cover - copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- bugger, sodomise, sodomize - practice anal sex upon
- sodomise, sodomize - copulate with an animal
same as: copulate, couple, pair
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together (synset 201295488)
"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"

is a type of: join - cause to become joined or linked
subtypes:
- mismate - provide with an unsuitable mate
- mismatch - match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together
same as: couple, match, pair, twin

verb group: match - give or join in marriage
Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game (synset 201116893)
"Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"

referred to in: chess, chess game - a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king

is a type of: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

same as: checkmate

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