Mate - English meaning

noun

A person who helps another commit a crime.

Usage examples:

An accomplice in the murder

noun

A person who helps someone else to commit a crime or do something morally wrong

Usage examples:

The thieves and two accomplices made away with over $25,000 in cash.

noun

A love affair or lover, especially one that is secret.

Usage examples:

He is enraged at this revelation of his past amours

noun

A belief and confidence in your own ability and value

noun

A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.

Usage examples:

An apprentice electrician

verb

Employ (someone) as an apprentice.

Usage examples:

Edward was apprenticed to a printer

noun

Someone who works for an expert to learn a particular skill or job

Usage examples:

He worked for two years as a plumber’s apprentice, [ i ] i apprenticed with my father, who was a st…

noun

A person who ranks below a senior person.

Usage examples:

The managing director and his assistant

verb

(of animals) mate and then produce offspring.

Usage examples:

Toads are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed

noun

A stock of animals or plants within a species having a distinctive appearance and typically having been developed by deliberate selection.

Usage examples:

The big continental breeds are eagerly being imported by british farmers

noun

A particular type of animal or plant

Usage examples:

The different breeds of dogs, authentic blues singers are a dying breed (= there are not many of th…

noun

The mating and production of offspring by animals.

Usage examples:

The flooding of the rivers is a trigger for breeding to start

verb

(of animals) mate and then produce offspring.

Usage examples:

Toads are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed

noun

A close friend.

Usage examples:

They had become the best of buddies

verb

Become friendly and spend time with someone.

Usage examples:

I decided to buddy up to them

noun

A close friend

Usage examples:

We were great buddies and did many things together.

noun

A close friend.

Usage examples:

She shared the cake with her chums

verb

Form a friendship with someone.

Usage examples:

His sister chummed up with sally

verb

Fish using chum as bait.

Usage examples:

Chumming is always a must when flounder fishing

noun

A fellow member of a class at school, college, or university.

Usage examples:

As a college student, he was always willing to help fellow classmates get through their exams.

noun

Someone who is in the same class as you in school

Usage examples:

Trish is taller than most of her classmates.

noun

Another term for coitus.

noun

Sexual intercourse.

Usage examples:

When interpreting the available data he speculates that many people in the u.s. engage in extramari…

noun

The sexual act in which a man puts his penis into a woman's vagina

noun

A person who works jointly on an activity or project; an associate.

Usage examples:

His collaborator on the book

noun

A person who works together with others for a special purpose

Usage examples:

Even an expert can benefit from a collaborator to help eliminate mistakes.

noun

A person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels.

Usage examples:

His travelling companion

verb

Accompany.

Usage examples:

He is companioned by a pageboy

noun

A covering over the hatchway leading to a ship's companionway.

Usage examples:

The room was illumined from the light in the companion, and the dim lantern hung from the deck beam.

noun

(among men) a colleague or a fellow member of an organization.

Usage examples:

An old college comrade

noun

A person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others.

Usage examples:

A close confidante of the princess

noun

A person with whom you can share your feelings and secrets

Usage examples:

Her brother is her closest confidant.

noun

A wife, husband, or companion, in particular the spouse of a reigning monarch.

Usage examples:

Queen victoria and her consort, prince albert

verb

Habitually associate with (someone), typically with the disapproval of others.

Usage examples:

You chose to consort with the enemy

noun

A small group of musicians performing together, typically playing instrumental music of the renaissance period.

Usage examples:

A consort of viols

verb

Have sexual intercourse.

Usage examples:

Only the dominant male copulates with the female

verb

To have sex

verb

Have sexual intercourse.

Usage examples:

Only the dominant male copulates with the female

verb

Present participle of copulate

noun

Sexual intercourse.

Usage examples:

Males may seek copulation with the breeding female

noun

The act of having sex

Usage examples:

The carvings often feature elaborate scenes of copulation., among grey seals, copulation may occur …

noun

Two people or things of the same sort considered together.

Usage examples:

A couple of girls were playing marbles

verb

Link or combine (something) with something else.

Usage examples:

A sense of hope is coupled with a palpable sense of loss

noun

Two or a few things that are similar or the same, or two or a few people who are in some way connected

Usage examples:

I’m packing a couple of sweaters in case it gets cold., we’re having two couples over for dinner.

noun

A device for connecting parts of machinery.

Usage examples:

Undo the couplings so you can lift the pump out

verb

Link or combine (something) with something else.

Usage examples:

A sense of hope is coupled with a palpable sense of loss

noun

A device that joins two things together

Usage examples:

The carriage at the end of the train was left stranded when the coupling broke.

adjective

Well known from long or close association.

Usage examples:

Their faces will be familiar to many of you

noun

A demon supposedly attending and obeying a witch, often said to assume the form of an animal.

Usage examples:

Her familiars were her two little griffons that nested in her skirts

adjective

Easy to recognize because previously experienced

Usage examples:

Familiar sights, a familiar face, i’m not familiar with current research in the field., her familia…

noun

A person who shares a flat with others.

Usage examples:

My flatmate moved out a month ago

noun

A person who shares an apartment with another person

noun

A person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations.

Usage examples:

She's a friend of mine

verb

Add (someone) to a list of friends or contacts on a social networking website.

Usage examples:

I am friended by 29 people who i have not friended back

noun

A person you know well and like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family

Usage examples:

I dreamed my school friends were being chased by a whale., today i got a call from a friend of mine…

noun

A person who helps someone else.

Usage examples:

There was no shortage of willing helpers

noun

A person who helps with an activity

Usage examples:

The driver or a helper picks up the trash.

noun

Someone who helps another person to do their job

Usage examples:

Classroom/domestic helpers, voluntary/volunteer helpers

noun

A helpful companion or partner, especially one's husband or wife.

Usage examples:

She acted as his pleasant but by no means uncritical helpmate

noun

A helpful companion or partner, especially one's husband or wife.

Usage examples:

She acted as his pleasant but by no means uncritical helpmate

noun

A humorous or affectionate way of referring to a person's husband.

Usage examples:

I popped into the butchers in my lunch break to buy some chops for hubby's dinner

noun

A married man considered in relation to his spouse.

Usage examples:

She and her husband are both retired

verb

Use (resources) economically.

Usage examples:

She husbanded their financial resources through difficult times

noun

A person's female lover.

Usage examples:

His new inamorata is a twenty-two-year-old mannequin named jennifer

noun

A woman someone is in love with

Usage examples:

He's had a tattoo with the name of a former lover removed, to avoid hurting the feelings of his cur…

noun

A person's male lover.

Usage examples:

Her days were spent dallying with her inamorato

noun

Communication or dealings between individuals or groups.

Usage examples:

Everyday social intercourse

noun

The sexual activity in which the male’s penis enters the female’s vagina

adjective

Closely acquainted; familiar.

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Intimate friends

noun

A very close friend.

Usage examples:

His circle of intimates

verb

State or make known.

Usage examples:

Mr hutchison has intimated his decision to retire

noun

A partner in a sexual or romantic relationship outside marriage.

Usage examples:

I think she had a secret lover

noun

A partner in a romantic or physical relationship

Usage examples:

The remote island is ideal for nature lovers.

noun

A person's wife.

Usage examples:

Doctor jones and his missus

noun

A person's wife.

Usage examples:

Doctor jones and his missus

noun

Wife

Usage examples:

Me and the missus (= my wife) are going to our daughter's for christmas., have you met jack's new m…

adjective

Having lived for a long time; no longer young.

Usage examples:

The old man lay propped up on cushions

Having lived for a long time or attained a specific age

noun

An arrangement or match resulting from forming people or things into pairs.

Usage examples:

The dancers made a fine pairing

verb

Put together or join to form a pair.

Usage examples:

She wore a cardigan paired with a matching skirt

noun

Two things, people, or organizations that work together

Usage examples:

The two companies were not a successful pairing., the upper management did well in the pairing of t…

noun

A friend.

Usage examples:

We've been pals for a long time

verb

Form a friendship.

Usage examples:

She palled up with some english chaps

noun

The television broadcasting system used in most of europe.

noun

Either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity.

Usage examples:

Arrange the children in pairs so that each person has a partner

verb

A friendly form of address by one man to another.

Usage examples:

How you doing, partner?

noun

A timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole through which a mast, capstan, pump, etc. pass.

Usage examples:

The mast was not chocked at the partners as it should have been

noun

A friend with whom a child plays.

Usage examples:

Sometimes valerie wished she had more playmates

noun

A friend, esp. another child, with whom a child often plays

Usage examples:

We were childhood playmates.

noun

The production of offspring; reproduction.

Usage examples:

In general animals copulate purely for the purpose of procreation

noun

A person who attends or attended the same school as oneself.

Usage examples:

She was teased by her schoolmates

noun

(chiefly with reference to people) sexual activity, including specifically sexual intercourse.

Usage examples:

They enjoyed talking about sex

verb

Determine the sex of.

Usage examples:

Each bird would need to be individually sexed

combining form

Variant spelling of sexi-, shortened before a vowel (as in sexennial ), or shortened before a consonant (as in sexfoil ).

noun

A person's assistant or close associate, especially one who has less authority than that person.

Usage examples:

Sherlock holmes' bumbling sidekick watson

noun

A friend, or a person who works with someone more important

Usage examples:

The course will focus on fictional master sleuth sherlock holmes and his sidekick dr. watson.

noun

A husband or wife, considered in relation to their partner.

Usage examples:

Communication is the key to understanding your spouse, partner, or significant other

A person's partner in marriage

noun

A person’s husband or wife

adjective

Lower in rank or position.

Usage examples:

His subordinate officers

noun

A person under the authority or control of another within an organization.

Usage examples:

He was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates

verb

Treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else.

Usage examples:

Practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency

noun

A player on someone's team

noun

A person who works or plays on the same team as someone else

Usage examples:

Let one of your teammates know if you are going to be late for a team meeting., by getting sent off…

noun

The action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context.

Usage examples:

He was opposed to closer political or economic union with europe

noun

The act or the state of being joined together

noun

An organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights and may agree pay, working conditions, etc. with their employers

Usage examples:

"no date has yet been set for a strike, the union said in a statement to the press this morning., t…

noun

A married woman considered in relation to her spouse.

Usage examples:

He and his wife are keen gardeners

noun

The woman to whom a man is married; a married woman

noun

A person who works in the same place as you, especially one who you are friendly with

Usage examples:

I went out for a drink with a few workmates.