Mate may refer to:

Science

* Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in: **

Mate choice Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur. It is characterized by a "selective response by animals to particular stimuli" which can be observed as behavior.Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon. "Mate Choice." Mate Choi ...

, intersexual selection ***

Mate choice in humans In humans, males and females differ in their strategies to acquire mates and focus on certain qualities. There are two main categories of strategies that both sexes utilize: short-term and long-term. Human mate choice, an aspect of sexual selecti ...

Mating In biology, mating is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for the purposes of sexual reproduction. ''Fertilization'' is the fusion of two gametes. '' Copulation'' is the union of the sex organs of two sexually repr ...

Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein (MATE) also known as multidrug and toxin extrusion or multidrug and toxic compound extrusion is a family of proteins which function as drug/sodium or proton antiporters. Function The MATE proteins in bact ...

, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins

Person or title

Friendship Friendship is a Interpersonal relationship, relationship of mutual affection between people. It is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an "acquaintance" or an "association", such as a classmate, neighbor, coworker, or colleague. Althoug ...

Mateship Mateship is an Australian cultural idiom that embodies equality, loyalty and friendship. Russel Ward, in ''The Australian Legend'' (1958), once saw the concept as central to the Australian people. ''Mateship'' derives from '' mate'', meaning ''f ...

Mate (naval officer) A mate is a deck naval officer aboard a merchant vessel, such as the chief mate (first mate), second mate, or third mate. Between 1800 and 1890 "mate" was also the naval rank now known as sub-lieutenant—master. One of the mates is always the H ...

Chief mate A chief mate (C/M) or chief officer, usually also synonymous with the first mate or first officer, is a licensed mariner and head of the deck department of a merchant ship. The chief mate is customarily a watchstander and is in charge of the ship ...

, also known as first mate **

Second mate A second mate (2nd mate) or second officer (2/O) is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship holding a Second Mates Certificate of Competence, by an authorised governing state of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). ...

Third mate A third mate (3/M) or third officer is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship. The third mate is a watchstander and customarily the ship's safety officer and fourth-in-command (fifth on some ocean liners). The position i ...

Third (curling) In curling, a third (alternatively, vice, vice-skip or mate) is the team member who delivers the second-to-last pair of a team's stones in an end. The third is in charge of calling, strategy and directing the sweepers when the skip is delivering ...

, 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) Mate () is a Croatian given name, a variant of Matthew. Notable people with the name include: * Mate Balota (1898–1963), Croatian poet, novelist and economist * Mate Baturina (born 1973), Croatian football striker * Mate Bilić (born 1980) ...

Máté (given name) Máté is a masculine Hungarian given name. Notable people with the name include: * Máté Csák (disambiguation), several people * Máté Fejes, (born 1988), Hungarian ice dancer * Máté Fenyvesi (1933–2022), Hungarian footballer * Máté Ha ...

Surname

Máté (surname) Máté () is a surname of Hungarian origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Aaron Maté (born 1979), Canadian journalist *Daniel Maté (born c. 1963), Spanish businessman *Gabor Maté (born 1944), Hungarian-born Canadian physician *Gá ...

Beverages

Mate (drink) Mate ( ; Spanish: , Portuguese: ) is a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused herbal drink. It is also known as in Portuguese, in Spanish, and ''kaʼay'' in Guarani. It is made by soaking dried yerba mate (''Ilex paraguariensis'' ...

, made from the yerba mate plant ** ''Mate'', a traditional South American container carved from a dried

calabash Calabash (; ''Lagenaria siceraria''), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, New Guinea butter bean, Tasmania bean, and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvest ...

Mate de coca Coca tea, also called mate de coca, is a herbal tea ( infusion) made using the raw or dried leaves of the cocaine-containing coca plant, which is native to South America. It is made either by submerging the coca leaf or dipping a tea bag in h ...

, or coca tea

Technology

MATE (desktop environment) MATE ( ) is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems such as BSD, and illumos. Name MATE is named after the South American plant yerba mate and tea made from th ...

, a fork of GNOME 2 (desktop shell for desktop hardware) * Mate or mating condition, a synonym for

constraints Constraint may refer to: * Constraint (computer-aided design), a demarcation of geometrical characteristics between two or more entities or solid modeling bodies * Constraint (mathematics), a condition of an optimization problem that the solution m ...

used in computer-aided design (CAD) *

Huawei Mate series Huawei Mate, formally Huawei Ascend Mate, is a series of high-end HarmonyOS-powered ( Android-based prior to the trade war sanction) smartphones produced by Huawei, and is one of their flagship products along with the Pura series. Under the ...

, a smartphone series by the Chinese company Huawei

Other uses

Mate (horse) Mate (foaled 1928 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1931 Preakness Stakes. Background From modest parentage, Mate was bred and raced by Albert C. Bostwick, Jr., whose grandfather was a founding partn ...

, an American Thoroughbred racehorse *

Mate (2019 film) ''Mate'' () is a South Korean film released on January 17, 2019. The drama/romance film stars Shim Hee-sub, Jung Hye-sung, and Kil Hae-yeon, and it is both directed and written by Jung Dae-gun. Although the film only drew in 1,392 box office admi ...

, a South Korean film *

Mahte In Latvian mythology, the term Māte stands for "mother", sometimes written in English as Mahte. It was an epithet applied to some sixty-seventy goddesses. They were clearly distinct goddesses in most or all cases, so the term definitely referre ...

or Māte, epithet for goddesses in

Latvian mythology Latvian mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Latvia, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations, and at other times being rejected and replaced by other explanatory narratives. These myt ...

* "Mate", shortened from

checkmate Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with ) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game. In chess, the king is ...

, a winning/losing situation in chess *

Yerba mate Yerba mate or yerba maté (), ''Ilex paraguariensis'', is a plant species of the holly genus native to South America. It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. The leaves of the plant can be steeped in hot water to make a bev ...

, a plant native to South America

Acronyms

Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science The Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES) is a comprehensive, selective magnet public high school with a focus on marine and environmental science that is part of the Ocean County Vocational School District. The school ...

, or MATES, a high school in Manahawkin, New Jersey