mate
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
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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