mate

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Sorry mate, but that bit is just uncool.

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Quick take

the officer below the master on a commercial ship

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mate gathered in one view.

noun

the officer below the master on a commercial ship

noun

a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against his former teammates"

noun

the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mate.

noun

the officer below the master on a commercial ship

noun

a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against his former teammates"

noun

the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates"

noun

a person's partner in marriage

noun

an exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook"

noun

one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"

noun

South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea

noun

informal term for a friend of the same sex

noun

South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate

noun

a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king

verb

engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"

verb

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"

verb

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"

Example sentences

Sorry mate, but that bit is just uncool.

* College, years 2-4: two roommates, desk under bed.

Some were killed in jail, either by inmates or staff, because they flipped out and people got scared.

Lets be honest mate, how did it get past their tester and release procedure?

* College, year 1: dorm with roommate, cop-style desks facing each other.

A brave private, barely old enough to shave, rang the buzzer and asked "Hey mate, would you mind opening the gate?

Later on I turned it into a webapp when her classmates also wanted to try it.

Going for lunch or for a drink with colleague or friend or client or possible mate-partner is what people do all over the world.

I hate when my internet experience is "localized" with shit like "g'day mate".the internet is a place in and of itself.

* Currently: professionally designed cubicle set up in an office with one office mate.

You are pretty much literally assuming an intelligent design behind the mate plant or Meadows's Montmorency cherry juice.

I helped several people avoid deportation, including one cell-mate who had a hit contract out on him in Jamaica because he defended his business when yardies tried to extort him.

A lab mate of mine in grad school wrote a cool thesis on using the iron in an induction machine as an electric transformer in such a way that the motor drive and power converter could be controlled independently.

Maybe someone more versed in the state-of-the-art can help me: has the concept of "speciation" ever been applied to genetic algorithms?In my instance, there are two predominant "types" of cars that are doing approximately equally well--the "rhinoboat" and the "assdragger".