Mate
Encyclopedia
Mate may refer to one of the following meanings based on the generic dictionary definitions of the word:
It may also refer to:
- One of a pair of animals involved in matingMatingIn biology, mating is the pairing of opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for copulation. In social animals, it also includes the raising of their offspring. Copulation is the union of the sex organs of two sexually reproducing animals for insemination and subsequent internal fertilization...
- Mate (colloquialism)Mate (colloquialism)Mate is a colloquialism used to refer to a friend and is commonly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It is or has been used interchangeably with many equivalent terms, such as buddy , pal or bro . It is sometimes abbreviated to M8..-Origin:Mate is a colloquialism...
, a colloquialism used to refer to a friend - A naval officer:
- A deck officer aboard a merchant ship, such as the Chief MateChief MateA Chief Mate or Chief Officer, usually also synonymous with the First Mate or First Officer , is a licensed member and head of the deck department of a merchant ship...
, Second MateSecond MateA second mate or second officer is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship. The second mate is the third in command and a watchkeeping officer, customarily the ship's navigator. Other duties vary, but the second mate is often the medical officer and in charge of maintaining...
, or Third MateThird MateA Third Mate or Third Officer is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship. The third mate is a watchstander and customarily the ship's safety officer and fourth-in-command... - A rank used between 1840 and 1860, now known as Sub-LieutenantSub-LieutenantSub-lieutenant is a military rank. It is normally a junior officer rank.In many navies, a sub-lieutenant is a naval commissioned or subordinate officer, ranking below a lieutenant. In the Royal Navy the rank of sub-lieutenant is equivalent to the rank of lieutenant in the British Army and of...
- Other naval ratings, such as Boatswain's MateBoatswain's MateA Boatswain's mate is a job classification in Navies and Coast Guards.*Boatswain's mate , a job classification in the United States Navy*Boatswain's mate , a job classification in the United States Coast Guard...
, Gunner's MateGunner's MateThe United States Navy occupational rating of gunner's mate also known as gunsmens mate is a designation given by the Bureau of Naval Personnel to enlisted sailors who either satisfactorily complete initial Gunner's Mate "A" school training, or who "strike" for the rating as a deck seaman by...
, and shipmateShipmateA shipmate is literally a mate on one's own ship .Typically, in the United States and other countries the term 'shipmate' is used amongst sailors as a generic name for those who are not on a name-to-name basis with each other...
- A deck officer aboard a merchant ship, such as the Chief Mate
- Running mateRunning mateA running mate is a person running together with another person on a joint ticket during an election. The term is most often used in reference to the person in the subordinate position but can also properly be used when referring to both candidates, such as "Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen were...
, a fellow candidate for the same party in one election
It may also refer to:
Cuisine
- Mate (beverage)Mate (beverage)Mate , also known as chimarrão or cimarrón, is a traditional South American infused drink, particularly in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, southern states of Brazil, south of Chile, the Bolivian Chaco, and to some extent, Syria and Lebanon...
, the popular caffeinated beverage made from yerba maté- Mate or Yerba matéYerba mateMaté, yerba maté or erva maté , Ilex paraguariensis, is a species of holly native to subtropical South America in northeastern Argentina, Bolivia, southern Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay...
(yerba: Spanish word for herb), a South American herb used to make the beverage
- Mate or Yerba maté
- Coca teaCoca teaCoca tea, also called mate de coca, is a tisane made using the leaves of the coca plant; typically the raw leaves of the plant. It is made either by submerging the coca leaf or dipping a tea bag in hot water...
or mate de coca, a beverage made from coca
Surnames
- Gábor Máté (athlete), Hungarian discus thrower
- Gábor Máté (physician)Gábor Máté (physician)Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and is also widely recognized for his unique perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder and his firmly held belief in the connection between mind and body health.A sought-after speaker and...
, a Hungarian-born Canadian physician and expert on Addiction and Stress - Sébastien MatéSébastien MatéSébastien Maté, born September 19, 1972 in Mont-de-Marsan, France is a retired professional footballer.-External links:*...
, French footballer - Vasily Mate (1856–1917), Russian artist and engraver
Other fields
- Short for checkmateCheckmateCheckmate is a situation in chess in which one player's king is threatened with capture and there is no way to meet that threat. Or, simply put, the king is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured...
, a winning/losing situation in chess - MahteMahteIn Latvian mythology, Māte , sometimes written in English as Mahte, was an epithet applied to some sixty-seventy goddesses. They were clearly distinct goddesses in most or all cases, so the term definitely referred to the mother-goddess of specific phenomena.Alternative: Mate#Bangu mate#Cela...
, a goddess in Latvian mythology, also spelled Māte - Mate RecordingsMate RecordingsMate Recordings is a British-Finnish record label from Manchester, UK, which was initiated by Finnish ex-pat Teemu Metsälä. Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs...
, a record label - Mate TusangaMate TusangaMate is a non-profit online mathematical tool focusing on simple symbolic and numerical calculations. It provides a small interpreted, dynamically typed programming language supporting among other datatypes, matrices, boleans, intervals, sets and fractions....
, a non-profit online mathematical tool - Mate (horse)Mate (horse)Mate was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1931 Preakness Stakes. From modest parentage, he was bred and raced by Albert C...
, an American Thoroughbred racehorse - Mate, an open-source FlexFlex-Computing:* Adobe Flex, technologies for developing rich internet applications* Flex, a family of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne* Flex lexical analyser, a free software alternative to lex* Flex machine, multiple systems...
application framework - Mate Desktop Environment, a fork of GNOMEGNOMEGNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...
2 Desktop Environment
Acronyms
- Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental ScienceMarine Academy of Technology and Environmental ScienceThe Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science is a comprehensive, selective magnet public high school with a focus on marine and environmental science that is part of the Ocean County Vocational School District...
, a specialized high school in Manahawkin, New Jersey - Multi antimicrobial extrusion proteinMulti antimicrobial extrusion proteinMulti antimicrobial extrusion protein also known as multidrug and toxin extrusion or multidrug and toxic compound extrusion is a family of proteins which function as drug/sodium or proton antiporters.- Function :...
, efflux transporter family of proteins