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mates::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | couple, match |
| Type of | family, family unit |
| Has types | dink, power couple |
Examples of mates
mates
For me, it is like playing club cricket on a Saturday afternoon with your mates.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Other fish produce sounds to lure mates into nests and defend their territories.
From the guardian.co.uk
Pietersen's relationship with his team-mates remains the subject of fascination.
From the independent.co.uk
He believes that it will take time for him to fully gel with his new team-mates.
From the telegraph.co.uk
He was sunk twice and spent several days in infested waters with his ship-mates.
From the sport.uk.msn.com
She is the quiet achiever of the club, and an absolute credit to her team mates.
From the dailyliberal.com.au
The boots were unusual in that no two mates of the same pair matched each other.
From the theepochtimes.com
Tom Learoyd why can't you get your other prop mates to run like a freight train.
From the canberratimes.com.au
This car was pulled up on the side of the road and I had three mates in the car.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
- The officer below the master on a commercial ship
- Copulate: engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"
- Match: 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"
- Teammate: a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against his former teammates"
- Checkmate: 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"
- The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates"
- Mate may refer to:
- In Latvian mythology, the term Mu0101te stands for "mother", sometimes written in English as Mahte. It was an epithet applied to some sixty-seventy goddesses. They were clearly distinct goddesses in most or all cases, so the term definitely referred to the mother-goddess of specific phenomena.
- Mate (Spanish:u00A0, Portuguese:u00A0; sometimes hypercorrected as matu00E9 in English, but never in Spanish or Portuguese, where it is often pronounced "jerba"), also known as yerba mate, chimarru00E3o (Portuguese:u00A0) or cimarru00F3n (Spanish:u00A0), is a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused drink, particularly in Argentina (where it is defined by law as the "national infusion"), Uruguay, Paraguay, the Boliv
