英语词汇“mateless”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mate¹ /māt/

noun

A companion

An equal

A fellow worker, occupant, etc (often in combination, as workmate, flatmate, etc)

A friendly or ironic form of address

A husband or wife

An animal with which another is paired to produce young

One of a pair

A ship's officer under the captain or master

In the navy, formerly a rank to which a warrant officer might be promoted

An assistant or deputy (as plumber's mate)

transitive verb

To be equal to, to rival (archaic)

To marry

To cause (esp animals) to copulate

To couple

To fit

intransitive verb

To claim equality (archaic)

To marry

(esp of animals) to copulate

To consort (archaic)

ORIGIN: Prob MLGer mate or earlier Du maet (now maat); cf OE gemetta a messmate, and meat

mateˈless adjective

Without a mate or companion

mateˈship noun (esp Aust)

The bond between close friends

māˈtily adverb

māˈtiness or māˈteyness noun

mātˈy or māteˈy adjective (mātˈier; mātˈiest) (informal)

Friendly and familiar, esp in a studied or overdone manner

noun

A friendly or ironic form of address esp to a man

mate's rates plural noun (informal)

A reduced price available only to friends

mating type noun (botany)

A group of individuals within a species which cannot breed among themselves but which are able to breed with individuals of other such groups

mate1 /māt/