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Meaning of mate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mate
      n 1: the officer below the master on a commercial ship [syn:
           {mate}, {first mate}]
      2: a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against
         his former teammates" [syn: {teammate}, {mate}]
      3: the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); "he
         loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their
         mates"
      4: a person's partner in marriage [syn: {spouse}, {partner},
         {married person}, {mate}, {better half}]
      5: an exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made
         in the notebook" [syn: {match}, {mate}]
      6: one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was
         blue but its fellow was brown" [syn: {mate}, {fellow}]
      7: South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
         [syn: {mate}, {Paraguay tea}, {Ilex paraguariensis}]
      8: informal term for a friend of the same sex
      9: South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South
         American holly called mate
      10: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible
          attack on the opponent's king [syn: {checkmate}, {mate}]
      v 1: engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"
           [syn: {copulate}, {mate}, {pair}, {couple}]
      2: bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "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" [syn:
         {match}, {mate}, {couple}, {pair}, {twin}]
      3: 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" [syn: {checkmate}, {mate}]

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