transcription, транскрипция: [ meɪt ]
( mates, mating, mated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You can refer to someone’s friends as their mates , especially when you are talking about a man and his male friends. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
He’s off drinking with his mates...
= pal
N-COUNT : usu with poss
2.
Some men use mate as a way of addressing other men when they are talking to them. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
Come on mate, things aren’t that bad.
= pal
N-VOC
3.
Someone’s wife, husband, or sexual partner can be referred to as their mate .
He has found his ideal mate.
= partner
N-COUNT : usu sing , oft poss N
4.
An animal’s mate is its sexual partner.
The males guard their mates zealously.
N-COUNT : usu poss N
5.
When animals mate , a male and a female have sex in order to produce young.
This allows the pair to mate properly and stops the hen staying in the nest-box...
They want the males to mate with wild females...
It is easy to tell when a female is ready to mate.
...the mating season.
V-RECIP : pl-n V , V with n , V ( non-recip ), V-ing
6.
On a commercial ship, the mate or the first mate is the most important officer except for the captain. Officers of lower rank are also called mates .
...the mate of a fishing trawler.
N-COUNT
7.
In chess, mate is the same as checkmate .
N-UNCOUNT
8.
see also cellmate , classmate , flatmate , playmate , roommate , running mate , schoolmate , shipmate , soul mate