mate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One of a matched pair: the mate to this glove.
2. n. A spouse.
3. n. Either of a pair of animals or birds that associate in order to propagate.
4. n. Either of a pair of animals brought together for breeding.
5. n. A person with whom one is in close association; an associate.
6. n. Chiefly British A good friend or companion.
7. n. A person with whom one shares living quarters. Often used in combination: advertised for a new flatmate.
8. n. A deck officer on a merchant ship ranking next below the master.
9. n. A U.S. Navy petty officer who is an assistant to a warrant officer.
10. v. To join closely; pair.
11. v. To unite in marriage.
12. v. To pair (animals) for breeding.
13. v. To become joined in marriage.
14. v. To be paired for reproducing; breed.
15. v. To copulate.
16. n. A checkmate.
17. v. To checkmate or achieve a checkmate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A familiar associate or companion; one who is associated with another or others in habitual intercourse or action; a fellow; a comrade: often used as the second element in a compound, as in playmate, schoolmate, shipmate.
2. n. An equal; a match.
3. n. One of a pair; one who or that which corresponds to or is joined with another in a pair; one of a pair of mated persons or animals, male and female, or of matched things; one of two fellows: as, a conjugal mate or partner; these shoes are not mates.
4. n. A ship's officer whose duty it is to oversee the execution of the orders of the master or commander, or of his immediate superior.
5. n. In the United States navy, an officer of the line not in the line of promotion.
6. To join or match as a mate or as mates, as in marriage or other union.
7. To match one's self with or against; vie or cope with.
8. To be joined in companionship; form a union; pair: as, to mate with one's like; birds mate in spring.
9. Enfeebled; fatigued; spent.
10. Confounded; daunted; dismayed; dejected; cast down.
11. Overthrown; fallen; slain.
12. To defeat; daunt; confound; stupefy.
13. To be confounded.
14. n. In chess, the state of the king when he is in check and cannot move out of it, the player whose king is so placed losing the game.
15. To checkmate.
16. n. A species of holly, Ilex Paraguayensis; also, its prepared leaves, or the tea-like beverage made from them. The mate is a small tree, or is reduced to a bush by the cutting of its branches for their leaves. It is found wild on the river-banks of Paraguay and in the neighboring mountainous districts of Brazil, and is cultivated in plantations. The leaves are prepared by roasting and pulverizing. Boiling water is poured over them to form the tea, which is imbibed through a tube, commonly without addition, sometimes with sugar or lemon. It is an aromatic beverage, whose general effects are those of tea and coffee. It is considered very refreshing in fatigue, and is consumed by miners and other heavy laborers. Its use, once adopted, is very difficult to abandon. Also called Brazil or Paraguay tea, Jesuits' tea, and yerba.
17. n. In geometry, the element that is paired with a given element in a correlation.
18. In logging, to place together in a raft (logs of similar size); match.
19. n. Same as congonha.

Wiktionary

1. n. chess Short for checkmate.
2. v. intransitive To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate
3. n. Nonstandard spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
4. n. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
5. n. a fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate
6. n. a breeding partner
7. n. colloquial, UK, Australia, New Zealand a friend, usually of the same sex
8. n. colloquial, UK, Australia, New Zealand a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male
9. n. nautical In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
10. n. nautical Short for first mate.
11. n. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
12. n. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
13. n. nautical A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
14. v. intransitive To match, fit together without space between.
15. v. intransitive To copulate.
16. v. intransitive To pair in order to raise offspring
17. v. transitive To arrange in matched pairs.
18. v. transitive To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
19. v. transitive To fit (objects) together without space between.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
2. n. (Chess) Same as checkmate.
3. adj. obsolete See 2d mat.
4. v. obsolete To confuse; to confound.
5. v. To checkmate.
6. n. One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
7. n. Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
8. n. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
9. n. (Naut.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant
10. v. To match; to marry.
11. v. To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
12. v. To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
13. v. To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link
14. v. To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship

WordNet 3.0

1. n. South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
2. v. place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
3. n. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
4. n. informal term for a friend of the same sex
5. v. engage in sexual intercourse
6. n. the officer below the master on a commercial ship
7. n. South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
8. n. an exact duplicate
9. n. a person's partner in marriage
10. n. the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
11. n. one of a pair
12. v. bring two objects, ideas, or people together
13. n. a fellow member of a team