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verb

Mate v. t.

1.

To confuse; to confound. (Obs.)

2.

To checkmate.

Mate v. t. (past & past part. mated; pres. part. mating)

1.

To match; to marry. "If she be mated with an equal husband."

2.

To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death." "I,... in the way of loyalty and truth,... Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be."

3.

To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.

4.

To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches.

Mate v. i. To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.

adjective

mated adj.

1.

Brought together for sexual activity; bred; of animals.

2.

Sorted into pairs of identical size, color, or other properties; used of gloves, socks, etc.

Synonyms: paired.

3.

Same as married. Opposite of unmarried; as, they were a devoted couple, mated for life.

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Etymology of 'Mated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mated" Quotes from Famous Books

... them, and they sat gazing at each other for some moments stolid and undismayed. Yet, despite the equality of fighting weight, he felt himself somehow the inferior creature. His thoughts ran on the old legend of the field-vole who mated with a wood-mouse of high degree, and whose descendants to this day bear the marks of their noble origin. So, when the stranger turned and leapt lightly into the undergrowth that fringed the wood, ...

— "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" - Studies of Animal life and Character • Douglas English

... we misjudge you?" asked Signor Bruno genially. They were almost on the threshold of the drawing-room window, which stood invitingly open, and from which came the sounds of cups and saucers being mated. ...

— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman

... Fair was she and full of laughter; Like the robin in the spring-time, Sang from sunrise till the sunset; For she loved the handsome hunter. Deep as Gitchee Gumee's waters Was her love—as broad and boundless; And the wedded twain were happy— Happy as the mated robins. When their first-born saw the sunlight Joyful was the heart of Panther, Proud and joyful was the mother. All the days were full of sunshine, All the nights were full of starlight. Nightly from the land of spirits On them smiled the starry faces— Faces of their ...

— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

... individuals and would not readily be distributed to the whole breed. Any member of the breed also into which BOTH the factors were introduced would drop out of the pedigree by virtue of its sterility. Hence the evidence that the various domesticated breeds say of dogs or fowls can when mated together produce fertile offspring, is beside the mark. The real question is, Do they ever produce sterile offspring? I think the evidence is clearly that sometimes they do, oftener perhaps than is commonly supposed. These suggestions are quite amenable to ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... the melancholy is still in his eyes, but there is no longer any harshness. They repossess their natural kindly benignity. "Though it is perhaps impossible that there should be between us that passionate love that there might be between people that are nearer each other in age—more fitly mated—yet there is no reason why we should not like each other very heartily, is there, dear? why there should not be between us absolute confidence, perfect frankness—that is the ...

— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton

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