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mate | moot |

As a verb mate

is .

As a noun moot is

size, measure.

mate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) ). More at (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
  • (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
  • (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) A friend, usually of the same sex.
    • I'm going to the pub with a few mates .
    He's my best mate .
  • (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male
    • Excuse me, mate , have you got the time?
  • (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. (w, Boatswain's Mate), (w, Gunner's Mate), Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
  • (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
  • (nautical) A first mate.
  • A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate'', ''plumber's mate ); sometimes an apprentice.
  • The other member of a matched pair of objects.
    • ''I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn't find its mate .
  • A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
  • * Milton
    • Ye knew me once no mate / For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.
    Synonyms
    (checksyns) * fellow * friend * buddy * sir * partner * See also
    Derived terms
    (Derived terms) * bedmate * bunkmate * cellmate * classmate * crewmate * flatmate * floormate * housemate * mateship * office mate * roommate * shipmate * teammate * tourmate * workmate

    Verb

  • To match, fit together without space between.
    • The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.
  • To copulate.
  • To pair in order to raise offspring
  • To arrange in matched pairs.
  • To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
  • To marry; to match (a person).
  • * Shakespeare
    • If she be mated with an equal husband.
  • To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I, / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.
  • To fit (objects) together without space between.
  • (aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
    • Synonyms
    (checksyns) * couple * match * pair
    Antonyms
    * (aerospace) demate
    Derived terms
    * mating

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) verb maten, (etyl) mater, from (etyl) noun .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chess) Short for checkmate.

    • Verb

  • To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate
  • To confuse; to confound.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 3

    See

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • ).
  • The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea

    • Anagrams

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    moot

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) moot, mot, . Related to (l).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Subject to discussion (originally at a ); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  • * 1770 , (Joseph Banks), The (published 1962):
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), :
    • [T]he uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 477:
    • The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot .
  • (North America, chiefly, legal) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
    • Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day (1903) Moot Points : Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day
  • (North America) Having no practical impact or relevance.
    • That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot .
  • * 2007 , Paul Mankowski, " The Languages of Biblical Translation", Adoremus Bulletin , Vol. 13, No. 4,
    • The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time is moot , since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them.
    Synonyms
    * (without relevance) irrelevant, obsolete (if it was previously relevant)
    Derived terms
    * moot point * moot court

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A moot court.
  • * Sir T. Elyot
    • The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots .
  • A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  • (Scouting) A gathering of Rovers (18–26 year-old Scouts), usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  • (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  • (historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality).
  • (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
    • Derived terms
    * folkmoot * gemoot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  • To discuss or debate.
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted , in this country
  • * Sir T. Elyot
    • First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
  • (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
  • To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.

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    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) Vagina.

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