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Look up: MATE

  1. Mate
    Mate is British slang for a friend. The term is also a polite form of address to strangers.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Mate
    Mate is British slang for a friend. The term is also a polite form of address to strangers.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. mate
    [n] - South American holly 2. [n] - the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) 3. [n] - informal term (Australian or British) for a friend of the same sex 4. [n] - the officer below the master on a commercial ship 5. [n] - South American tea-like drink made from le...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. mate
    consists of the dried leaves of certain shrubs of the holly family which grow in South America. It is sometimes known as 'Paraguay tea' or 'Jesuits` tea' Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Mate
    Ma'te noun [ Spanish ] The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly ( Ilex Paraguensis ). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/31

  6. Mate
    Mate noun [ French mat , abbrev. from échec et mat . See Checkmate .] (Chess) Same as Checkmate .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/31

  7. Mate
    Mate adjective See 2d Mat . [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/31

  8. Mate
    Mate transitive verb [ French mater to fatigue, enfeeble, humiliate, checkmate. See Mate checkmate.] 1. To confuse; to confound. [ Obsolete] Shak. 2. To checkmate.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/31

  9. Mate
    Mate noun [ Perhaps for older make a companion; confer also OD. maet companion, mate, Dutch maat . Confer Make a companion, Match a mate.] 1. One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/31

  10. Mate
    Mate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mated ; present participle & verbal noun Mating .] 1. To match; to marry. « If she be mated with an equal husband.&...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/31

  11. Mate
    Mate intransitive verb 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/31

  12. mate
    The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odour, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America. ... Origin: Sp. ... 1. One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object wh...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  13. mate
    noun South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  14. mate
    Paraguay tea noun South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  15. mate
    noun the officer below the master on a commercial ship
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  16. mate
    noun an exact duplicate; `when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  17. mate
    verb 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`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  18. Mate
    • (v. t.) To confuse; to confound. • (n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object. • (n.) The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  19. maté
    (from the article `maté`) In brewing maté, the dried leaves (yerba), placed in dried hollow gourds, are covered with boiling water and steeped. The gourds, called matés or ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/48

  20. maté
    tealike beverage, popular in many South American countries, brewed from the dried leaves of an evergreen shrub or tree (Ilex paraguariensis) related ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/48

  21. Mate
    Mate is a Hungarian boy name. The meaning of the name is `Gift of God` Where is it used? The name Máté is mainly used In Hungarian.It is an abbreviated form of Matthew, used In English and In the bible.If it`s too long people might use In English: MaeSee also In Swedish and In Norwegian: Mats ...
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Mate

  22. mate
    • the officer below the master on a commercial ship
    • a fellow member of a team
    • the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
    • a person's partner in marriage
    • an exact duplicate
    • South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
    • informal term (Australian or British) for a friend of the same sex
    • a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible att...
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    • maté
      maté (mätā', mătā') , yerba maté (yer'bä, –bu) , or Paraguay tea,evergreen tree (Ilex paraguariensis) of the family Aquifoliaceae (holly family). From ancient times Native Americans and now millions of Argentines and others in South America...
      Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08321

    • Mate
      Mate is the plant that yields Paraguay tea, the Ilex Paraguayensis, a kind of holly, of the natural order Aquifoliaceae. It has smooth, ovate-lanceolate, unequally serrated leaves, much branched racemes of flowers, the subdivisions of which are somewhat unbellate. In Brazil and other parts of South ...
      Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

    • maté
      Type: Term Pronunciation: mah-tā′ Definitions: 1. The dried leaves of Ilex paraguayensis and other species of Ilex (family Aquifoliaceae), shrubs growing in Paraguay and Brazil, which contain caffeine and tannin; used in South American countries as a beverage and medicinally as a diuretic...
      Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio



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