Mate

Mate may refer to:

Science

• Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in:
  • Mate choice, intersexual selection
    • Mate choice in humans
  • Mating
• Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins

Person or title

• Friendship
  • Mateship
• Mate (naval officer)
  • Chief mate, also known as first mate
  • Second mate
  • Third mate
• Third (curling), also known as a vice, vice-skip, or mate, the team member who delivers the second-to-last pair of a team's stones in an end

People

Given names

• Mate (given name)
• Máté (given name)

Surname

• Máté (surname)

Beverages

• Mate (drink), made from the yerba mate plant
  • Mate, a traditional South American container carved from a dried calabash
• Mate de coca, or coca tea

Technology

• MATE (desktop environment), a fork of GNOME 2 (desktop shell for desktop hardware)
• Mate or mating condition, a synonym for constraints used in computer-aided design (CAD)
• Huawei Mate series, a smartphone series by the Chinese company Huawei

Other uses

• Mate (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Mate (2019 film), a South Korean film
• Mahte or Māte, epithet for goddesses in Latvian mythology
• "Mate", shortened from checkmate, a winning/losing situation in chess
• "Mate", the Ulster-scots word for food
• Yerba mate, a plant native to South America

Acronyms

• Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, or MATES, a high school in Manahawkin, New Jersey

See also

• Inmate, a prisoner
• Mates, a surname
• Matte (disambiguation)
• Running mate, a fellow candidate for the same party in one election
• All pages with titles containing Mate
• All pages with titles containing Mating