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US
/ˈmeɪt/
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NOUN
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one of a pair
he lost the mate to his shoe
one eye was blue but its fellow was brown - South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
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a fellow member of a team
it was his first start against his former teammates - South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
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an exact duplicate
when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook - a person's partner in marriage
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the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
camels hate leaving their mates
he loved the mare and all her mates - a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
VERB
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bring two objects, ideas, or people together
The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
This fact is coupled to the other one -
place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves -
engage in sexual intercourse
Birds mate in the Spring
How To Use mate In A Sentence
- I can't find any relevant material on him in the library.
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- There's a big difference between an amateur video and a slick Hollywood production.
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
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- A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
- It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
- For instance, a few weeks ago in my sports statistics class, I envisioned a type of graph that’s a combination boxplot and lineplot — instead of turning towards Excel, I coded a Mathematica module to create this type of graph and then automate the creation of many of these. Wolfram Blog : Get Your Game On for Mathematics Awareness Month!
- The formation of coral terraces is interpreted as the product of approximately uniform long-term uplift superimposed on eustatic changes in sea level.
- China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
