matingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmeɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪdɪŋ/

Forms: late Middle English mattyng, late Middle English matyng, late Middle English matynge, 1500s– mating.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mate v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mate v.² + -ing suffix¹.Quot. ?a1400 represents either a figurative use of this word, or a verbal noun formed < mate v.¹

Chess.

The action of mate v.²; checkmating. Also figurative. mating net n. an arrangement of pieces cutting off the flight squares of an exposed king and making checkmate unavoidable.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > check or checkmate

matec1330

mating?a1400

checkc1426

checkmatec1440

scholar's mate1614

fool's mate1618

scholar's check1674

perpetual check1750

smothered mate1804

sui-mate1846

selfmate1848

perpetual1966

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 11157 At ilk matyng [a1450 Lamb. mattyng] þei said ‘Chek!’

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 329 Matynge at the chesse, matacio.

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 46 (MED) Ye shal fynde..in this scripture Of my matynge the Aventure.

1592 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 275 In a mating age, none are free from the check, but kinges.

a1649 W. Drummond in Wks. (1711) 146 The Mating of the King is the Conclusion of the Game [of chess].

1908 Westm. Gaz. 12 Aug. 7/3 Mackenzie ran into a mating net with Gunsberg in a lively game.

1968 S. Morrison Chess vi. 52 Black would reply 10..K-R₃ and..escapes the mating net.

1992 Chess Monthly Sept. 12/2 The only move that prevents a mating combination..loses a rook.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

matingn.²

Brit.

/ˈmeɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪdɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mate v.³, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mate v.³ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of mate v.³; the action of matching one thing with another; marriage; pairing, esp. of birds; copulation, sexual intercourse; an instance of this. Also with up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > association

mating1621

withness1904

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > mating

admissure?1440

mating1871

mateship1927

pair-formation1939

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding > put to for breeding

mating1871

1621 R. Brathwait Shepheards Tales in Natures Embassie 213 So shall we Honor'd be, In our mating, in our meeting.

1867 Ladies' Repository Mar. 138/2 I think God's idea of marriage is given in the mating of the first pair.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 52 Do you [sc. a breeder of animals] not take the greatest care in the mating?

1896 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 3/1 The mating of the blue gown with the pink or crimson hat is eminently smart.

1899 Feathered World 10 Mar. 474 Having described the mating-up of the breeding pens of pure brown-reds.

1920 R. H. Lowie Primitive Society (1921) ii. 16 Among the Kariera of Western Australia the acquisition of a bride is complicated by certain rules of preferential mating.

1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) xii. 937 Twenty-eight male offspring have thus been examined from five matings.

1981 M. West Clowns of God ii. 55 Their mating was the most joyous in a long time.

1992 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) ii. 41 They were, the tome suggested, something like a tribe, with a sensible taboo against intratribal mating.

2. Whaling. The collaboration of crews from different vessels in catching and dividing up a whale. rare.

ΚΠ

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 259 Sometimes two or more crews belonging to different vessels unite in the capture, and if successful an equitable division of the oil is afterward made. This is called ‘mating’.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

mating call n.

ΚΠ

1945 Ecol. Monogr. 15 192/1 Soon mating calls came consistently from definite localities.

1997 Nature 31 July 436/2 (caption) The fringe-lipped bat..fastens on to the mating call of frogs to find its daily diet.

mating ground n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > copulation > place for

mating ground1856

assembly-ground1906

assembly-place1936

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxi. 268 A solitary pair, who seem to have left their fellows for this far northern mating-ground.

1998 Sci. Amer. July 50/1 Many species of butterfly show even greater territoriality, laying claim to mating grounds characterized more by geography than by resources.

mating instinct n.

ΚΠ

1900 Overland Monthly Mar. 200 It is not simply the mating instinct that makes some people marry far out of their own race.

1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. xiii. 516 The blind motions of her mating-instinct.

1999 Detroit News (Nexis) 29 May d38 Human beings have a religious instinct that's just as strong as the mating instinct.

mating ritual n.

ΚΠ

1965 Yale French Stud. No. 34. 69 The best known instance is Marcel's observing the strange mating ritual between Charlus and Jupien.

1988 Millimeter Apr. 17/3 Albatrosses and goony birds practice mating rituals and ungracefully fall to earth.

mating season n.

ΚΠ

1870 Overland Monthly Jan. 25/2 The mating season of the Sea-Otter is not known, as the young are met with in all months of the year.

1936 Discovery Oct. 307/2 During the mating season, its call is startling.

1995 P. Jenkins Along Edge of Amer. xiv. 300 They were crazed like this every year at mating season. Last year, one buck in rut killed an old man.

mating song n.

ΚΠ

1952 Ecol. Monogr. 22 116 Males continue their mating songs and flights throughout July.

1990 B. Neal Biscuits, Spoonbread, & Sweet Potato Pie xi. 242 The mating song of the cicada is the background music to a night of sitting on the porch.

mating time n.

ΚΠ

1815 H. H. Milman Fazio ii. i. 24 But, my lord, a fair-order'd head-dress makes me As love-sick as a dove at mating time.

1919 T. S. Eliot Hippopotamus in Poems At mating time the hippo's voice Betrays inflexions hoarse and odd.

1986 D. Carey Dreadnought v. 64 Eyes soft as dark aurelites in a plume-pool at mating time.

C2.

mating ball n. Zoology an intertwined mass of male snakes attempting to mate with a single female, usually formed just after they have emerged from hibernation in a communal den.

ΚΠ

1974 Copeia 683/1 In two instances in late spring when snakes were dispersing, a mating ‘ball’ was seen 10–15 m from the den.

1994 Sci. Amer. Jan. 102/1 Male red-sided garter snakes enact a similar form of sexual mimicry. At times of peak of sexual activity, males congregate around females, forming a so-called mating ball.

mating type n. Biology a strain of an organism, esp. a fungus or protozoan, that can undergo conjugation and sexual reproduction only with another, genetically distinct, strain of the same species.

ΚΠ

1938 T. M. Sonneborn in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 89 412 As conjugation takes place usually or only between individuals of diverse types, these types will be referred to as mating types.

1984 J. W. Deacon Introd. Mod. Mycol. (ed. 2) viii. 117 In several members of the Zygomycotina..there are two mating types, designated ‘+’ and ‘−’, which are determined by two alleles at a single gene locus.

1992 New Scientist 7 Mar. 35/1 Robert Ulrich,..studying mating-type regions in the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune, reported that the polypeptide products from some of the mating-type genes probably regulate the action of other genes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

matingadj.

Brit.

/ˈmeɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪdɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mate v.³, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < mate v.³ + -ing suffix².

1. That mates or joins with a suitable partner; (esp. of a bird or pair of birds) that engages in mating.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [adjective] > mating

mating1850

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > relating to mating > that mates

brood1526

pairing1781

mating1850

1850 C. Mackay Egeria 109 Upon that solitary place Its verdure threw adorning grace. The mating birds became its guests, And sang its praises from their nests.

1870 F. W. H. Myers Poems 100 No ringdove murmurs on the hill Nor mating cushat calls.

1928 Ecology 9 399 Mating pairs [of Notonecta undulata] have been observed in copula for 3½ hours.

1988 P. Toynbee End of Journey 129 I've never before heard the mating owls so loud.

2. In technical uses: that joins, connects, or couples parts of a mechanism or device; linking, interlocking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > closely, intimately, or permanently joined > fitting closely together

mating1940

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 23/2 Allowance, a difference in dimensions prescribed in order to allow of various qualities of fit between mating pieces.

1941 N. H. Anderson Aircraft Layout iv. 99 Dural mating parts should not be used in bearings.

1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iv. 129 Yet another method is to fire the rings separately, then grind the mating surfaces and join them with an epoxy resin adhesive.

1992 Strad Feb. 149/2 The mating splice is now planed onto the new piece, ensuring that it not only correctly aligns the new head to the frog.., but also provides the correct overall length.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹?a1400

n.²1621

adj.1850

单词	mating
释义	matingn.¹ Brit. /ˈmeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdɪŋ/ Forms: late Middle English mattyng, late Middle English matyng, late Middle English matynge, 1500s– mating. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mate v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mate v.² + -ing suffix¹.Quot. ?a1400 represents either a figurative use of this word, or a verbal noun formed < mate v.¹ Chess. The action of mate v.²; checkmating. Also figurative. mating net n. an arrangement of pieces cutting off the flight squares of an exposed king and making checkmate unavoidable. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > check or checkmate matec1330 mating?a1400 checkc1426 checkmatec1440 scholar's mate1614 fool's mate1618 scholar's check1674 perpetual check1750 smothered mate1804 sui-mate1846 selfmate1848 perpetual1966 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 11157 At ilk matyng [a1450 Lamb. mattyng] þei said ‘Chek!’ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 329 Matynge at the chesse, matacio. c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 46 (MED) Ye shal fynde..in this scripture Of my matynge the Aventure. 1592 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 275 In a mating age, none are free from the check, but kinges. a1649 W. Drummond in Wks. (1711) 146 The Mating of the King is the Conclusion of the Game [of chess]. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 12 Aug. 7/3 Mackenzie ran into a mating net with Gunsberg in a lively game. 1968 S. Morrison Chess vi. 52 Black would reply 10..K-R₃ and..escapes the mating net. 1992 Chess Monthly Sept. 12/2 The only move that prevents a mating combination..loses a rook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). matingn.² Brit. /ˈmeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mate v.³, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mate v.³ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of mate v.³; the action of matching one thing with another; marriage; pairing, esp. of birds; copulation, sexual intercourse; an instance of this. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > association mating1621 withness1904 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > mating admissure?1440 mating1871 mateship1927 pair-formation1939 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding > put to for breeding mating1871 1621 R. Brathwait Shepheards Tales in Natures Embassie 213 So shall we Honor'd be, In our mating, in our meeting. 1867 Ladies' Repository Mar. 138/2 I think God's idea of marriage is given in the mating of the first pair. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 52 Do you [sc. a breeder of animals] not take the greatest care in the mating? 1896 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 3/1 The mating of the blue gown with the pink or crimson hat is eminently smart. 1899 Feathered World 10 Mar. 474 Having described the mating-up of the breeding pens of pure brown-reds. 1920 R. H. Lowie Primitive Society (1921) ii. 16 Among the Kariera of Western Australia the acquisition of a bride is complicated by certain rules of preferential mating. 1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) xii. 937 Twenty-eight male offspring have thus been examined from five matings. 1981 M. West Clowns of God ii. 55 Their mating was the most joyous in a long time. 1992 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) ii. 41 They were, the tome suggested, something like a tribe, with a sensible taboo against intratribal mating. 2. Whaling. The collaboration of crews from different vessels in catching and dividing up a whale. rare. ΚΠ 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 259 Sometimes two or more crews belonging to different vessels unite in the capture, and if successful an equitable division of the oil is afterward made. This is called ‘mating’. Compounds C1. General attributive. mating call n. ΚΠ 1945 Ecol. Monogr. 15 192/1 Soon mating calls came consistently from definite localities. 1997 Nature 31 July 436/2 (caption) The fringe-lipped bat..fastens on to the mating call of frogs to find its daily diet. mating ground n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > copulation > place for mating ground1856 assembly-ground1906 assembly-place1936 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxi. 268 A solitary pair, who seem to have left their fellows for this far northern mating-ground. 1998 Sci. Amer. July 50/1 Many species of butterfly show even greater territoriality, laying claim to mating grounds characterized more by geography than by resources. mating instinct n. ΚΠ 1900 Overland Monthly Mar. 200 It is not simply the mating instinct that makes some people marry far out of their own race. 1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. xiii. 516 The blind motions of her mating-instinct. 1999 Detroit News (Nexis) 29 May d38 Human beings have a religious instinct that's just as strong as the mating instinct. mating ritual n. ΚΠ 1965 Yale French Stud. No. 34. 69 The best known instance is Marcel's observing the strange mating ritual between Charlus and Jupien. 1988 Millimeter Apr. 17/3 Albatrosses and goony birds practice mating rituals and ungracefully fall to earth. mating season n. ΚΠ 1870 Overland Monthly Jan. 25/2 The mating season of the Sea-Otter is not known, as the young are met with in all months of the year. 1936 Discovery Oct. 307/2 During the mating season, its call is startling. 1995 P. Jenkins Along Edge of Amer. xiv. 300 They were crazed like this every year at mating season. Last year, one buck in rut killed an old man. mating song n. ΚΠ 1952 Ecol. Monogr. 22 116 Males continue their mating songs and flights throughout July. 1990 B. Neal Biscuits, Spoonbread, & Sweet Potato Pie xi. 242 The mating song of the cicada is the background music to a night of sitting on the porch. mating time n. ΚΠ 1815 H. H. Milman Fazio ii. i. 24 But, my lord, a fair-order'd head-dress makes me As love-sick as a dove at mating time. 1919 T. S. Eliot Hippopotamus in Poems At mating time the hippo's voice Betrays inflexions hoarse and odd. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought v. 64 Eyes soft as dark aurelites in a plume-pool at mating time. C2. mating ball n. Zoology an intertwined mass of male snakes attempting to mate with a single female, usually formed just after they have emerged from hibernation in a communal den. ΚΠ 1974 Copeia 683/1 In two instances in late spring when snakes were dispersing, a mating ‘ball’ was seen 10–15 m from the den. 1994 Sci. Amer. Jan. 102/1 Male red-sided garter snakes enact a similar form of sexual mimicry. At times of peak of sexual activity, males congregate around females, forming a so-called mating ball. mating type n. Biology a strain of an organism, esp. a fungus or protozoan, that can undergo conjugation and sexual reproduction only with another, genetically distinct, strain of the same species. ΚΠ 1938 T. M. Sonneborn in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 89 412 As conjugation takes place usually or only between individuals of diverse types, these types will be referred to as mating types. 1984 J. W. Deacon Introd. Mod. Mycol. (ed. 2) viii. 117 In several members of the Zygomycotina..there are two mating types, designated ‘+’ and ‘−’, which are determined by two alleles at a single gene locus. 1992 New Scientist 7 Mar. 35/1 Robert Ulrich,..studying mating-type regions in the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune, reported that the polypeptide products from some of the mating-type genes probably regulate the action of other genes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). matingadj. Brit. /ˈmeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mate v.³, -ing suffix². Etymology: < mate v.³ + -ing suffix². 1. That mates or joins with a suitable partner; (esp. of a bird or pair of birds) that engages in mating. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [adjective] > mating mating1850 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > relating to mating > that mates brood1526 pairing1781 mating1850 1850 C. Mackay Egeria 109 Upon that solitary place Its verdure threw adorning grace. The mating birds became its guests, And sang its praises from their nests. 1870 F. W. H. Myers Poems 100 No ringdove murmurs on the hill Nor mating cushat calls. 1928 Ecology 9 399 Mating pairs [of Notonecta undulata] have been observed in copula for 3½ hours. 1988 P. Toynbee End of Journey 129 I've never before heard the mating owls so loud. 2. In technical uses: that joins, connects, or couples parts of a mechanism or device; linking, interlocking. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > closely, intimately, or permanently joined > fitting closely together mating1940 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 23/2 Allowance, a difference in dimensions prescribed in order to allow of various qualities of fit between mating pieces. 1941 N. H. Anderson Aircraft Layout iv. 99 Dural mating parts should not be used in bearings. 1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iv. 129 Yet another method is to fire the rings separately, then grind the mating surfaces and join them with an epoxy resin adhesive. 1992 Strad Feb. 149/2 The mating splice is now planed onto the new piece, ensuring that it not only correctly aligns the new head to the frog.., but also provides the correct overall length. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?a1400n.²1621adj.1850
随便看	etc to the quick etc to the rescue etc to the skin etc too big for one's boots etc too big for one's breeches etc too big for one's etc etc traverse etc two fingers up etc two fingers up at etc uncle etc under awe etc under discussion etc under the rug etc up a gear etc up a person's heels etc up and down like a bride's nightie etc up by the roots etc up her arse etc up her ass etc up his arse etc up his ass etc up like a sore finger etc up like a sore toe etc up one's heels etc up one's jacksie

matingn.1

matingn.2

Compounds

matingadj.

matingn.¹

matingn.²