The word mate in a sentence

Synonym: couple, pair, team. Similar words: inmate, climate, intimate, estimate, material, teammate, ultimate, estimated. Meaning: [meɪt]  n. 1. the officer below the master on a commercial ship 2. a fellow member of a team 3. the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) 4. a person’s partner in marriage 5. an exact duplicate 6. South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea 7. informal term for a friend of the same sex 8. South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate 9. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent’s king. v. 1. make love 2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together 3. place an opponent’s king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game. 

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1. He’s an old mate of mine.

2. Many birds mate in the springtime.

3. You’re minging, mate! Go and take a shower.

4. Cats do not mate with dogs.

5. Birds mate in the spring.

6. I was with a mate.

7. Where is the mate to this glove?

8. It is often difficult to get animals to mate in captivity.

9. The assistant carried on talking to his mate, name-dropping all the famous riders he knew.

10. Don’t blame me, mate — I had fuck all to do with it!

11. The queen bee is likely to mate with two or three drones.

12. A male bird sings to attract a mate.

13. Come on mate, things aren’t that bad.

14. Have you got a light, mate?

15. A donkey mate with a mare.

16. They want the males to mate with wild females.

17. Fair go mate, let the others have a turn!

18. Do foxes ever mate with dogs?

19. Pandas rarely mate in captivity.

20. Sorry mate, you’ll have to wait.

21. Lend me a fiver, mate?

22. Around here, mate, what I say, goes!

23. She has been a faithful mate to him.

24. Tigers mate repeatedly over a period of several days.

25. The blackbird called to its mate.

26. If you paid £50, you were done,(http://Sentencedict.com) mate!

27. Where are you off to, mate?

28. He worked as a bricklayer’s mate.

29. Give us a light, mate.

30. These birds have colourful feathers to attract a mate.

More similar words: inmate, climate, intimate, estimate, material, teammate, ultimate, estimated, alma mater, ultimately, legitimate, approximately, building materials, mathematics, math, format, tomato, matter, dramatic, no matter, diplomat, formation, summation, automatic, pragmatic, a matter of, information, diplomatic, dramatically, automatically. 

мате, мат, помощник, приятель, товарищ, спариваться, спаривать, сопрягать

существительное

- товарищ (по работе); напарник; напарница
- прост. товарищ, приятель; кореш

I say, mate! — послушай, приятель /друг/!

- самец или самка из (одной) пары (особ. у птиц)
- супруг; супруга

she has been a faithful mate to him — она была ему верной подругой

- помощник капитана (на торговом судне)

chief mate — старший помощник капитана

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- сочетать браком
- сочетаться браком
- спаривать

they mated a horse with a donkey — они скрестили лошадь с ослом

- спариваться

birds mate in spring — птицы спариваются весной

- общаться
- равнять, приравнивать
- соединять; сопрягать
- зацепляться (о зубчатых колёсах)

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

a mitten wanting its mate — варежка, которой нужна пара  
boatswain’s mate — помощник боцмана  
machinist’s mate — помощник машиниста  
dove and its mate — голубь со своей голубкой  
mate to a glove — перчатка, парная другой перчатке  
chamber mate — сосед по комнате  
captain’s mate — помощник капитана  
first mate — первый помощник капитана  
second mate — второй помощник капитана  
fool’s mate — шахм. мат со второго хода, детский мат  
mate up parts — сопрягать детали  

Примеры с переводом

What’s the time, mate?

Который час, приятель?

Birds mate in the Spring.

Птицы спариваются весной.

How do women choose their mates?

По какому принципу женщины выбирают себе пару?

Lend me a fiver, mate?

Друг, одолжишь мне пятёрку?

He’s good mates with John.

Они с Джоном — хорошие приятели.

Rabbits can be mated as early as six months old.

Кроликов можно спаривать уже в возрасте шести месяцев.

I told my mates some of these facts on returning.

По возвращении я рассказал моим приятелям о некоторых из этих фактов.

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Примеры, ожидающие перевода

…you’re having me on, aren’t you, mate?…

• ‘You’re not allowed to park here.’ ‘Up yours, mate!’

‘Can you deliver on Thursday?’ ‘Yeah, no worries, mate.’

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Возможные однокоренные слова

inmate  — заключенный, обитатель, жилец, больной
mater  — мать
mathematical  — математический
mature  — зрелый, развитой, выдержанный, созревший, созреть, созревать, взрослеть, вылежаться
mating  — спаривание, стыковка, сопряженный, парный
mateless  — одинокий, без товарища, без пары

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: mate
he/she/it: mates
ing ф. (present participle): mating
2-я ф. (past tense): mated
3-я ф. (past participle): mated

noun
ед. ч.(singular): mate
мн. ч.(plural): mates

Examplesentences.org

Here you can find a large assortment of example sentences for the word mate, or in other words sentences that can help you learn how to use mate in a sentence. Learning how to use a word in a sentences can be very helpful, for example when it comes to learning how to use the word in a sentence, in which context the word can be used as well as to learn the true meaning of the word «mate».

Mate in a sentence

Here below you will find several sentences that illustrate how to use the word mate in a sentence.


  1. Bush, to be his running mate.


  2. He and running mate William R.


  3. Navy photographer’s mate Arthur W.


  4. He was the running mate of Dwight D.


  5. The turtles mate in spring and autumn.


  6. Robinson as his preferred running mate.


  7. Watson was Bryan’s People’s running mate.


  8. Sewall was Bryan’s Democratic running mate.


  9. They mate either on the ground or in trees.


  10. These eggs later hatch and the progeny mate.


  11. Thurman of Ohio to be Cleveland’s new running mate.


  12. Obama eventually chose Joe Biden as his running mate.


  13. In large herds, females often mate with several males.


  14. In 1861 mate was abolished in favor of sub-lieutenant.


  15. Bernadine Healy as his running mate, but she declined.


  16. Condors begin to look for a mate when they reach sexual maturity at the age of 6.


  17. They are monogamous (they mate for life) and give biparental care to their young.


  18. Adoptee males may mate with an available pack female and then form their own pack.


  19. In the story «His Mate», Lad meets and later must win the heart of his mate, Lady.


  20. Carnaby’s black cockatoos begin breeding from four years of age and mate for life.


  21. Most ant species have a system in which only the queen and breeding females have the ability to mate.


  22. The female is sometimes fed by her mate while she crouches with spread wings and gives begging calls.


  23. Young birds may travel in flocks but later mate for life, with each mated pair defending a territory.


  24. It is possible to have them mate with other Nightopians, which creates hybrids known as «Superpians».


  25. The males stay on land and try to mate with as many females as they can; some of them will even fast.


  26. Raccoons usually mate in a period triggered by increasing daylight between late January and mid-March.


  27. Twenty-five states required that a presidential candidate have a running mate to appear on the ballot.


  28. John McCain was nominated as the Republican candidate, and he selected Sarah Palin as his running mate.


  29. Indian Ocean populations, such as the Seychelles hawksbill population, mate from September to February.


  30. Hendricks of Indiana, Tilden’s 1876 running mate, also sought a claim on the previous nominee’s support.


  31. In captivity in the Northern Hemisphere, fossas instead mate in the northern spring, from March to July.


  32. The male seems to usually renest in the same area regardless of whether or not he retains the same mate.


  33. This sexuality is complicated, yet also made comical, when Nonsense chooses a castrated man as her mate.


  34. Among many inaccuracies, the first mate was «a man named Briggs,» and there were live chickens on board.


  35. Several days before the convention, McKinley chose him as running mate, though no announcement was made.


  36. Once a male has found a mate, he selects a territory, marking the boundaries by warbling as he flies from perch to perch.


  37. The Whig candidate was General Scott, Pierce’s commander in Mexico; his running mate was Secretary of the Navy William A.


  38. In the book’s opening, the title character and her mate ambush a herd of Astrodon, which are large herbivorous sauropods.


  39. Eastern brown snakes generally mate from early October onwards—during the Southern Hemisphere spring; they are oviparous.


  40. He allowed the convention to make its own choice of running mate, and it selected Roosevelt, by then Governor of New York.


  41. There are many reports that Clinton had already decided to choose Clark to be her running mate had she won the nomination.


  42. Before copulation, one bird bows deeply to its mate, its bill pointed close to the ground, and its mate then does the same.


  43. The male loses interest in the female after the first copulation, though she is still active and can mate with other males.


  44. On the campaign trail, Eisenhower spoke of his plans for the country, leaving the negative campaigning to his running mate.


  45. When Red’s mate climbs onto the dead Astrodon, the corpse rolls in the mud, trapping the male under the bulk of the animal.


  46. But she’s my best mate.» They formed a musical and romantic partnership over subsequent years, and their first recording together «Aftermath» later appeared on Maxinquaye.


  47. Barkley was among 12 nominated at the 1944 Democratic National Convention to serve as Roosevelt’s running mate in the presidential election that year, receiving six votes.


  48. Shortly after Fletcher was indicted by the grand jury in 2006, Lieutenant Governor Pence announced that he would not be Fletcher’s running mate during his re-election bid.


  49. In 1838 a Royal Commission, presided over by the Duke of Wellington, recommended the institution of the rank of mate as an official step between midshipman and lieutenant.


  50. While the lifting operation was progressing, police arrested and interviewed Henderson and Kenneth Noble, Bowbelle’s second mate who was at the wheel for the collision.

Synonyms for mate

Another way to better understand how a word can be used is to examine what synonyms it has, and how these synonyms can be used. For example, the word mate has the following synonyms: checkmate, first mate, match, Paraguay tea, Ilex paraguariensis, spouse, partner, married person, better half, teammate, copulate, pair, couple and twin.

General information about «mate» example sentences

The example sentences for the word mate that we present on this web site, stems from different official sources. For example one of our sources are articles on Wikipedia that are classified as at least Good articles. But we also use news articles, books and other generic texts to gather example sentences of how the word «mate» can be used in a sentence. To the right of every sentence you will find a link out arrow that sends you to the source of the sentence, where you can access the full text and context for the presented example sentence. This can be useful because some words can sometimes be difficult to understand with only a sentence for context, whereas the full article or text can help you gain insight on how to use the word «mate».

Definition of Mate

each of a pair of items

Examples of Mate in a sentence

Erica became upset when she couldn’t find the other mate to her favorite pair of socks.

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The birds pair up, and each male picks a mate to be with for life.

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Margo’s mitten was missing its mate, so she couldn’t cover both hands from the freezing snow.

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Examples of how to use the word “mate” in a sentence. How to connect “mate” with other words to make correct English sentences.

mate (n, v): an animal’s sexual partner; to have sex and produce young, or to make animals do this

Use “mate” in a sentence

They’ve been best mates since they were kids.
We’re soul mates.
Ducks do not mate with chickens.

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