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mate
English
- 🔊 South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- 🔊 the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- 🔊 informal term for a friend of the same sex
- 🔊 the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)“he loved the mare and all her mates”
- 🔊 South American holly
- 🔊 one of a pair“he lost the mate to his shoe”
- 🔊 a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- 🔊 an exact duplicate“when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook”
- 🔊 a fellow member of a team“it was his first start against his former teammates”
- 🔊 a person's partner in marriage
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 bring two objects, ideas, or people together“This fact is coupled to the other one”
- 🔊 engage in sexual intercourse“Birds mate in the Spring”
Spanish
- 🔊 aparear to mate
- 🔊 cumpa mate, buddy
- 🔊 mate mate, checkmate
- 🔊 compi mate, buddy (friend)
- 🔊 compañero mate, partner (matching item in a set)
- 🔊 cabrón mate, dude (term of endearment between friends)
- 🔊 puto mate, dude (term of endearment between friends)
- 🔊 compañero mate, colleague; (with a qualifier) fellow X, classmate, coworker, etc. (someone with whom something is shared)