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mate



I - noun
1. the officer below the master on a commercial ship (Freq. 4)
Syn:
first mate
Hypernyms:
officer, ship's officer
2. a fellow member of a team (Freq. 2)
- it was his first start against his former teammates
Syn:
teammate
Hypernyms:
associate
3. the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) (Freq. 2)
- he loved the mare and all her mates
- camels hate leaving their mates
Hypernyms:
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
4. a person's partner in marriage (Freq. 1)
Syn:
spouse, partner, married person, better half
Derivationally related forms:
spousal (for: spouse)
Hypernyms:
relative, relation, domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent
Hyponyms:
bigamist, consort, helpmate, helpmeet, husband,
hubby, married man, monogamist, monogynist, newlywed, honeymooner,
polygamist, wife, married woman
Member Holonyms:
marriage, married couple, man and wife
5. an exact duplicate (Freq. 1)
- when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook
Syn:
match
Derivationally related forms:
match (for: match)
Hypernyms:
duplicate, duplication
6. informal term for a friend of the same sex
Derivationally related forms:
matey
Regions:
Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, United Kingdom, UK, U.K.,
Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
Hypernyms:
friend
7. South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
Hypernyms:
beverage, drink, drinkable, potable
8. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
Syn:
checkmate
Derivationally related forms:
checkmate (for: checkmate)
Hypernyms:
chess move
9. one of a pair
- he lost the mate to his shoe
- one eye was blue but its fellow was brown
Syn:
fellow
Hypernyms:
singleton
Part Holonyms:
couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace,
span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet,
dyad, duad
10. South American holly;
leaves used in making a drink like tea
Syn:
Paraguay tea, Ilex paraguariensis
Hypernyms:
holly

II - verb
1. engage in sexual intercourse (Freq. 7)
- Birds mate in the Spring
Syn:
copulate, pair, couple
Derivationally related forms:
couple (for: couple), coupling (for: couple), pair (for: pair), pairing (for: pair), mating, copulatory (for: copulate), copulation (for: copulate)
Hypernyms:
join, conjoin
Hyponyms:
nick, sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out,
make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it,
be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck,
jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it,
bang, get it on, bonk, tread, serve, service,
deflower, ruin, ride, mount, breed, cover,
sodomize, sodomise, bugger
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together (Freq. 1)
- 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
Syn:
match, couple, pair, twin
Derivationally related forms:
pair (for: pair), couple (for: couple), coupling (for: couple), match (for: match)
Hypernyms:
join, bring together
Hyponyms:
mismate, mismatch
Verb Group:
match
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
3. 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
Syn:
checkmate
Derivationally related forms:
checkmate (for: checkmate)
Topics:
chess, chess game
Hypernyms:
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody

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