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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121. Blindness is also a major handicap to the recognition of a potential mate, as is deviant colouration.
122. On the way back again to rejoin his mate he inadvertently walked over some gravel, and the noise alerted the guards.
123. Mr Bean's mate was bringing out an extraordinary white horse covered in black spots.
124. I think I've always found it hard to talk to people except for my best mate.
125. They are, however, found only among insects whose females mate many times.
126. Termites and ants do it seasonally when the time comes for them to mate, disperse and set up new colonies.
127. Occasionally she sat still while he hovered above her and briefly touched down to mate.
128. Our experience shows that stud males only mate efficiently if they are used regularly but not more frequently than alternate nights.
129. Sometimes these two-survival and acquiring a mate are conflicting goals.
130. To me, as well as being my old mate, he's a fine, outstanding example of a White Poplar.
131. Within a species, a male has at least a chance of persuading his mate to accept his donation.
132. It would be quite wrong to suggest that the only influence on mate choice is relative familiarity.
133. When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. Sigmund Freud 
134. We trooped along and he more than likely brought his mate John Grey along with him.
135. I tell you though, my best mate thinks we haven't done it quietly enough.
136. What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. Sylvia Plath
137. A man, by contrast, is seeking a mate who will use his sperm and his money to produce babies.
138. There is Star-buck, the chief mate of the Pequod, a native of Nantucket and a Quaker by descent.
139. And they mate, laying their eggs in the shallow tepid pools.
140. The final day will feature speeches by Dole and his running mate.
141. Those that are particularly good at judging readiness to mate may wind up with a lot more offspring.
142. It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken. Christina G Rossetti
143. The captain read the funeral service and the first mate raised the plank and tipped the small bundle into the water.
143. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
144. Here then the first mate and the captain are diametrically opposed.
145. I know it has something to do with a battle, a running mate and a presidential election.
146. The Midi Mate allows you to send up to three patch changes on three different channels and offers three different operational modes.
147. In addition to this, the bureaucratic leaderships do not facilitate bringing revolutionary Marxist educational mate rial to the ranks.
148. In fact singing seems to serve two main functions in birds: defending territory, and attracting and stimulating females to mate.
149. Tonight, and only tonight, the opalescent squid will mate.
150. The first mate was studying to become a master.
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