mate
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4.8
- noun
- /meɪt/
:
pareja
- The lioness chose the strongest male in the pride as her mate for breeding.
- find mates
- potential mate
- female mate
They seek out their mate, want sex, and they're off, right.
- They seek out their mate, want sex, and they're off, right.
- The rear, the rear male has many mates, has many females.
- And I am putting my money on the mate switching hypothesis.
- A cockroach finds mates, food, shelter.
- It can increase your likelihood to find a mate and reproduce.
- They find prey, they find mates, they know where they are in terms of space.
- Even dying males continued to search out interested mates.
- So, so our self evaluation I think does track mate value to some extent.
Examples
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The alpha female has chosen an unlikely mate.
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Smaller male toads are less likely to secure a mate, and smaller females lay fewer eggs.
Academic text (1992) -
Sharks return here each year to feed mate and give birth.
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So she might, after all, be able to find a mate within the tribe.
Fiction book (1994) -
There were nine brothers and sisters; all but two of them had mates or children.
Fiction book (2001) -
Some female insects do eat their mates.
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I hear a quail calling to its mate from a tree overhead.
Fiction book (2000) -
Others focused on more practical needs, such as finding a mate, completing a college degree, and vocational success.
Academic text (1992) -
As is common practice among insects, the male plies his mate with gifts of food.
Academic text (1991) -
A snail will climb a 12-foot wall to find its mate.
Compounds
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3.4
A person you feel a deep, natural connection with as a close friend or romantic partner
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mate for an animal partner comes from the same old word for 'companion', so when animals have a mate they choose a partner to be with and breed.