Synonym: couple, pair, team. Similar words: inmate, climate, intimate, estimate, material, teammate, ultimate, estimated. Meaning: [meɪt] 
n. 1. the officer below the master on a commercial ship 2. a fellow member of a team 3. the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) 4. a person's partner in marriage 5. an exact duplicate 6. South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea 7. informal term for a friend of the same sex 8. South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate 9. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king. v. 1. make love 2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together 3. place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.
n. 1. the officer below the master on a commercial ship 2. a fellow member of a team 3. the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) 4. a person's partner in marriage 5. an exact duplicate 6. South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea 7. informal term for a friend of the same sex 8. South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate 9. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king. v. 1. make love 2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together 3. place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game. 
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91. Course, as Derek says, his mate is basically a very decent bloke.
92. To father a daughter, the man must fertilize his mate with an X carrier.
93. And we're not just talking about your mum and your best mate.
94. He wondered how much Lorton's mate had creamed off on top of his percentage.
95. Far more often, though, the discovery that one's mate is unfaithful leads to a lot of pain.
96. The food-finder might instead single out one other nest mate, and then lead it alone back to the food source.
97. During that time he may mate with other females, and add the eggs to his collection.
98. The chief mate watches the pick from the small flying bridge that is cantilevered out over the water.
99. Certainly it must help them locate a mate and induce a feeling of social togetherness.
100. Oh Fiona what do you think of our new flat mate Tony then, not bad looking eh Fiona.
101. The third mate is Flask, who seems to have a personal grudge against every whale in every ocean on the globe.
102. Don't share with anyone - not even your best mate or your partner.
103. Yes, your heroine will be united with her destined mate.
104. In the past great difficulty was encountered in persuading chimpanzees raised in zoos to mate successfully.
105. Fitness Mate is designed to keep track of several athletes participating in many sports, tracking their achievements in each.
106. Majerus, O'Donald, and Weir, for instance, were interested by the genetical control of mate selection in ladybirds.
107. Conversely, a small male does worse than a small female because he fails to win a mate at all.
108. His racial theory was almost certainly a red herring, 5 but the notion of selective mate choice was not.
109. Yet the woman who finds a genuinely protective mate in a less glamorous man may still feel romantically deprived.
110. His room mate, who was considerably older, was due to preach a sermon at St Paul's Cathedral but fell ill.
111. I slipped the heavy derringer into the holster while the mate watched proudly.
112. Starbuck and Ahab almost communicate with each other as the first mate pleads with Ahab to repudiate this vengeful mission.
113. Well, hard luck,(http://sentencedict.com/mate.html) mate.
114. For example, be a different gender from your neighbor because he or she will probably turn out to be your mate.
115. He had joined the ship just as we sailed, somehow browbeating the mate into letting him board.
116. It was like a shipwreck, where the resourceful child passenger becomes the first mate.
117. A male gorilla or sage grouse does not refuse to mate with a female because of her appearance.
118. Different criteria of mate preference develop in different cultures at different times.
119. Mate fidelity between breeding seasons is relatively low, so a high proportion of the population re-pair each year.
120. It seemed unsettled, as if trying to cover a lot of territory, possibly looking for a mate.
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