Courting vs Mating - What's the difference?
courting | mating |
Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
(zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
* 1981 , Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)
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As verbs the difference between courting and mating
is that courting is while mating is .As nouns the difference between courting and mating
is that courting is courtship; amorous advances while mating is (zoology) pairing of organisms for copulation.As an adjective mating is
fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.mating
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(wikipedia mating)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}