Rendezvous vs Mate - What's the difference?
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A meeting or date.
An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
* Sir Walter Scott
(label) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
* Clarendon
(obsolete) retreat; refuge
To meet at an agreed time and place.
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.
(colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male
(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.
A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
* Milton
To match, fit together without space between.
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
To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
To fit (objects) together without space between.
(aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate
To confuse; to confound.
As nouns the difference between rendezvous and mate
is that rendezvous is a meeting or date while mate is a fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.As verbs the difference between rendezvous and mate
is that rendezvous is to meet at an agreed time and place while mate is to match, fit together without space between.rendezvous
English
Noun
- I have a rendezvous with a friend in three weeks.
- “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
- an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
- The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (military) RV (abbreviation)Usage notes
The plural rendezvous'' (/-vu/) is normally ''rendezvous'' (/-vuz/). Rarely, the form ''rendezvouses is encountered.Verb
- Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
See also
* rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation English borrowed terms English terms derived from French ----mate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ). More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- I'm going to the pub with a few mates .
- He's my best mate .
- Excuse me, mate , have you got the time?
- ''I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn't find its mate .
- Ye knew me once no mate / For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * fellow * friend * buddy * sir * partner * See alsoDerived terms
(Derived terms) * bedmate * bunkmate * cellmate * classmate * crewmate * flatmate * floormate * housemate * mateship * office mate * roommate * shipmate * teammate * tourmate * workmateVerb
- The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.
- If she be mated with an equal husband.
- There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.
- I, / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * couple * match * pairAntonyms
* (aerospace) demateDerived terms
* matingEtymology 2
From (etyl) verb maten, (etyl) mater, from (etyl) noun .Verb
- (Shakespeare)