DICTOMETER

APAREAR (Spanish for "mate")

(mate, parre)

1. Synonyms:
   • Mate
   • First mate
   Definitions:
   • the officer below the master on a commercial ship
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Teammate
   • Mate
   Definitions:
   • a fellow member of a team
   Examples:
   • It was his first start against his former teammates
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Mate
   Definitions:
   • the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
   Examples:
   • He loved the mare and all her mates
   • Camels hate leaving their mates
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Spouse
   • Partner
   • Married person
   • Mate
   • Better half
   Definitions:
   • a person's partner in marriage
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Match
   • Mate
   Definitions:
   • an exact duplicate
   Examples:
   • When a match is found an entry is made in the notebook
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Mate
   • Fellow
   Definitions:
   • one of a pair
   Examples:
   • He lost the mate to his shoe
   • One eye was blue but its fellow was brown
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Mate
   • Paraguay tea
   • Ilex paraguariensis
   Definitions:
   • South American holly
   • leaves used in making a drink like tea
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Mate
   Definitions:
   • informal term for a friend of the same sex
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Mate
   Definitions:
   • South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Checkmate
    • Mate
    Definitions:
    • a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Copulate
   • Mate
   • Pair
   • Couple
   Definitions:
   • engage in sexual intercourse
   Examples:
   • Birds mate in the Spring
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Match
   • Mate
   • Couple
   • Pair
   • Twin
   Definitions:
   • bring two objects, ideas, or people together
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Checkmate
   • Mate
   Definitions:
   • place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
   Examples:
   • Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves