[
US
/ˈmeɪtɪŋ/
]
[ UK /mˈeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /mˈeɪtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
the casual couplings of adolescents
How To Use mating In A Sentence
- Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
- When social mating systems were dichotomized, extrapair chicks were twice as frequent in monogamous as in polygynous species.
- Mating season commonly takes place during the fall and winter seasons, but can occur at any time throughout the year.
- The animating idea remains curiously unplumbed. The Times Literary Supplement
- In October he issued a report to the police estimating a post-mortem interval of 24 hours.
- We analyzed more than 3000 infrared thermograms acquired from 1256 admitted patients and developed a thermo-visual diagnostic method for estimating the severity of intracranial hypertension.
- The methodology is applicable to the investigation of parentage for all progeny developed from parental mating without subsequent generations of inbreeding.
- This is the second Mercator chart showing Lindbergh's route as a series of 500 mile-long loxodromes approximating the great circle route from New York to Paris.
- The nazir offers his hair to God as a symbol that he is sublimating and consecrating his sensuality and sexual energy.
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