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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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- Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
- There's a big difference between an amateur video and a slick Hollywood production.
- A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
- 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.
- 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!
- If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008