mate
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- Royaume-Uni/[meɪt]/
- Royaume-Uni/[mɛjt]/
- Canada/[meːt]/
- //meɪt//
A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
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A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
A "mate" was a "mate" - share and share alike, no matter how bad might be the times, or how long a spell of ill luck had attended them.
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A breeding partner.
Such overt displays of avowed sexual prowess – or at least, desperate availability – are not limited to the countryside. Even in the city, birds and animals and stockbrokers and nurses find ways of signalling their suitability as a mate.
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A friend, usually of the same sex.
I'm going to the pub with a few mates.
He's my best mate.
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Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
Excuse me, mate, have you got the time?
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In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
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A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
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A first mate.
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A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
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The other member of a matched pair of objects.
I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn't find its mate.
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A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
Ye knew me once no mate / For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.
Étymologie
From Middle English mate, a borrowing from Middle Low German mate (“messmate”) (replacing Middle English mett, mette (“table companion, mate, partner”), from Old English ġemetta (“sharer of food, table-guest”)), from Old Saxon gimato, derived from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) (related to German and Dutch ge-) + *matjô (from *matiz (“food”)), related to Old English mete (“food”)). From the same Middle Low German source stems German Low German Maat (“journeyman, companion”), German Maat (“naval non-commissioned officer”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Moat (“friend, buddy, comrade, mate”), Dutch maat (“mate, partner, colleague, friend”). More at Old English ġe-, English co-, English meat. Doublet of maat. Compare typologically Latin compāniō (whence companion) (< con- + panis + -ō), Russian однока́шник (odnokášnik) (< одно- (odno-) + ка́ша (káša) + -ник (-nik)).
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To match, fit together without space between.
The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.
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To copulate.
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To pair in order to raise offspring.
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To arrange in matched pairs.
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To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
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To copulate with.
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To marry; to match (a person).
If she be mated with an equal husband.
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obsolèteTo match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.
I, […] in the way of loyalty and truth, […] / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.
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To fit (objects) together without space between.
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To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
Indeed, some cases of devotion that were met with were quite touching; and very often to all appearances the pairs were not always mated from the same class of society.
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To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
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Variante de checkmateClipping of checkmate.
Étymologie
From Middle English verb maten, from Middle French mater, from Old French noun mat (“checkmate”), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).
verbe
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Variante de checkmateClipping of checkmate.
verbe
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obsolèteTo confuse; to confound.
I think you are all mated, or stark mad.
Étymologie
From Middle English maten (“to overpower”), from Old French mater (“to kill”), from Vulgar Latin *mattō, of unclear origin.
nom
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The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
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Variante de matéAlternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
Étymologie
See maté.
Formes
- pluriel
- mates
- passé
- mated
- participe passé
- mated
- participe présent
- mating
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- mates
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