verb
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To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
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That jerk checkmated me in four moves!
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(by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
verb
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To match, fit together without space between.
example
The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.
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To copulate.
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To pair in order to raise offspring
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To arrange in matched pairs.
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To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
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(of an animal) To copulate with.
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To marry; to match (a person).
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To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
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To fit (objects) together without space between.
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To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
verb
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To confuse; to confound.
adjective
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Fitted together or interlocked
Examples of mated in a Sentence
She'd been terrified that day, unaware she'd be mated to him twenty four hours later.
He barely accepted the idea of being mated to a woman who only looked like his ex.
When the kings of our people found them, they mated with them to bind them to them.
Naturals mated with Guardians?
Telling him that she'd mated off human-Deidre to the Dark One would make Gabriel hate her.
She faced the goddess, rage streaking through her along with the terror of being mated to the Dark One.
After they mated, she killed him.
You think I give a damn about one stupid, feeble, weak human, especially one mated to Rhyn?
Her sister is mated to the second son of our ruler.
She'd not mated as highly as she might have if she remained with Evelyn and mated with Kisolm, the next ruler of Qatwal.
She doesn't understand you are mated.
You are not mated?
Romas had decreed that the man Kiera chose would have to have her agreement to be mated.
If A'Ran had mated with a proper nishani, we'd not be losing this war.
And you haven't mated him off to some powerful House?
Yesterday was the first day we've spent together since you mated with her months ago.
His own father hadn't mated with his mother for ten years, until after Darian's birth.
He'd mated with Claire five months ago.
Did you know that before you mated with her?
Part of the reason he'd mated with her so quickly was to get her away from the man she claimed beat her.
He'd mated with Claire days after meeting her.
Would solve your problem of being mated to me.
We were newly mated and made love under a tree near a fountain.
We are, after all, still mated.
Connorn, newly mated to Sierra.
If her people asked for proof that they mated, they would see his arm but nothing on hers.
Your people believe us to be mated.
He on his part was more and more repelled by a superior woman determined to live her own intellectual life, and she on hers discovered that she was mated, if not to a clown, at least to a hobereau whose whole heart was in his cattle and his turnips.
When amongst the litter of a properly mated, highly bred fox-terrier, pups are found with long bodies and thick short legs and feet, breeders are disposed to excuse the result by the supposition that the bitch has been contaminated by some earlier mating.
In a state of nature canaries pair, but under domestication the male bird has been rendered polygamous, being often put with four or five females; still he is said to show a distinct preference for the female with which he was first mated.
The particular pattern will only appear when the coloured parent is mated with the particular albino.
It flattered his vanity to pose before the world as the dispenser of benefits; but his theoretical liberalism was mated with an autocratic will which brooked no contradiction.
In the absence of control experiments there is therefore no reason for assuming Lord Morton's chestnut mare would have produced less striped offspring had she been mated with the black Arabian before giving birth to a quagga hybrid.
A similar result was obtained with a deerhound first mated with a retriever.
Having had ample opportunity of being "corrupted," the fox-terrier was mated with a prize dog of her own strain.
She also threw Mineral, who, when mated with Lord Clifden, produced Wenlock, winner of the St Leger, and after being sold to go to Hungary, was there mated with Buccaneer, the produce being Kisber, winner of the Derby.
Your skills as an Oracle were terrible, but he would've mated with you anyway, he corrected her.
Two are mated to Guardians, one in South America and the second in New York.
The bad thing about being mated to an Oracle – you never know what she's plotting.
Do you happen to know the exact date your dog mated with your bitch?
She was mated on October eighth through the twelfth, and the dogs had a full tie each time.
You know my sister mated with Memon long ago.
It has been shown that the individuals in such an offspring may bear patterns which never occurred in the ancestry of the coloured parent, but did in that of the albino; and, moreover, if the same coloured parent be mated with another individual, either albino or coloured, that their offspring may never contain members bearing such patterns.
If a mare or other female animal is liable to be "infected" by her first or by subsequent mates, telegony will rank as a cause of variation, and breeders will be justified in believing (1) that pure-bred females are liable to be "corrupted" when mated with sires of a different breed; and (2) that inferior or cross-bred females, if first mated with a high-class sire, will thereafter produce superior offspring, however inferior or cross-bred her subsequent mates.
All are assorted and mated to suitable rams. Most of the older ewes take the ram in September, but maiden ewes are kept back till October.
Queen Mary, who was by Gladiator out of a daughter of Plenipotentiary and Myrrha by Whalebone, when mated with Melbourne produced Blink Bonny (winner of the Derby and Oaks); when mated with Mango and Lanercost she produced Haricot, dam of Caller Ou (winner of the St Leger).
Manganese when mated with Rataplan threw Mandragora, dam of Apology, winner of the Oaks and St Leger, whose sire wasAdventurer, son of Newminster.
In conventional breeding by reproduction, only individuals from the same species or related species can be mated to produce offspring.
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