Definitions for mates
The noun mates has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
(a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago")
The noun mate has 10 senses? (first 5 from tagged texts)
(the officer below the master on a commercial ship)
(a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against his former teammates")
(the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates")
(a person's partner in marriage)
(an exact duplicate; "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook")
(one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown")
(South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea)
(informal term for a friend of the same sex)
(South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate)
(a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king)
The verb mate has 3 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
(engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring")
(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")
(place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves")
