Dictionary entry details
• MATE (noun)
Meaning:
The officer below the master on a commercial ship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
first mate; mate
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)
Meaning:
A fellow member of a team
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
teammate; mate
Context example:
it was his first start against his former teammates
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
associate (a person who joins with others in some activity)
Meaning:
The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context examples:
he loved the mare and all her mates / camels hate leaving their mates
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Meaning:
A person's partner in marriage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
better half; married person; partner; spouse; mate
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
domestic partner; significant other; spousal equivalent; spouse equivalent (a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mate"):
monogamist; monogynist (someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time))
bigamist (someone who marries one person while already legally married to another)
consort (the husband or wife of a reigning monarch)
helpmate; helpmeet (a helpful partner)
hubby; husband; married man (a married man; a woman's partner in marriage)
married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)
honeymooner; newlywed (someone recently married)
polygamist (someone who is married to two or more people at the same time)
Holonyms ("mate" is a member of...):
man and wife; marriage; married couple (two people who are married to each other)
Meaning:
An exact duplicate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
match; mate
Context example:
when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
duplicate; duplication (a copy that corresponds to an original exactly)
Meaning:
South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ilex paraguariensis; Paraguay tea; mate
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
holly (any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges)
Meaning:
Informal term for a friend of the same sex
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)
Domain region:
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)
Meaning:
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
beverage; drink; drinkable; potable (any liquid suitable for drinking)
Meaning:
A chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
checkmate; mate
Hypernyms ("mate" is a kind of...):
chess move (the act of moving a chess piece)
• MATE (verb)
Meaning:
Make love
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
copulate; mate; couple; pair
Context example:
Birds mate in the Spring
Hypernyms (to "mate" is one way to...):
conjoin; join (make contact or come together)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mate"):
bugger; sodomise; sodomize (practice anal sex upon)
breed; cover (copulate with a female, used especially of horses)
backcross (mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents)
mount; ride (copulate with)
deflower; ruin (deprive of virginity)
serve; service; tread (mate with)
bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep with (have sexual intercourse with)
nick (mate successfully; of livestock)
sodomise; sodomize (copulate with an animal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
couple; twin; mate; pair; match
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "mate" is one way to...):
bring together; join (cause to become joined or linked)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mate"):
mismatch (match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together)
mismate (provide with an unsuitable mate)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
checkmate; mate
Context example:
Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves
Hypernyms (to "mate" is one way to...):
beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)
Domain category:
chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
