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- n the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- n a fellow member of a team
it was his first start against his former teammates - n the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
he loved the mare and all her mates
camels hate leaving their mates - n a person's partner in marriage
- n an exact duplicate
- n one of a pair
he lost the mate to his shoe - n South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
- n informal term for a friend of the same sex
- n South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- n a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- v engage in sexual intercourse
Birds mate in the Spring - v bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- v 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
- A worker weighs freshly picked shade-grown yerba mate at one of Guayaki's rain-forest-restoration projects in eastern Paraguay.
- Throughout Barack Obama's search for a running mate, Joe Biden has always been hiding in plain sight, a man who appears supremely qualified to be vice president of the United .
- Some of Clinton's own strategists are doubtful that Obama will offer to make her his running mate in no small part because that would mean bringing Bill aboard.