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 Choic ...

, intersexual selection **

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 reproduc ...

* Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins

Person or title

Friendship Friendship is a 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. In some cultures, the concept o ...

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 ''fri ...

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 ...

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 shi ...

, also known as first mate ** Second mate ** Third mate *

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) * Máté (given name)

Surname

Máté (surname) Máté is a surname of Hungarian language, Hungarian origin. WP:PEOPLE, Notable examples of the surname Máté include: People *Gábor Máté (athlete), Hungarian discus thrower *Gabor Maté, Gábor Máté (physician), a Hungarian-born Canadian ...

Beverages

Mate (drink) or maté () also known as or , is a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused drink. It is made by soaking dried leaves of the yerba mate (''Ilex paraguariensis''), in hot water and is served with a metal straw in a container typically ...

(/ˈmɑːte/), 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, Tasmania bean, and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvested young to be consumed ...

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

, or coca tea

Technology

MATE (software) MATE () is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux, BSD, and illumos operating systems. Name MATE is named after the South American plant yerba mate and tea made from the herb, mate. The name is s ...

(/ˈmɑːteɪ/) stylised in capitals, 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 The Huawei Mate series (previously the Huawei Ascend Mate series) is a line of high-end HarmonyOS-powered (formerly Android based) phablet smartphones produced by Huawei, and is one of the flagship smartphones along with the P 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 part ...

, 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 admis ...

, a South Korean film *

Mate (2021 film) Mate may refer to: Science * Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in: ** Mate choice, intersexual selection ** Mating * Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins Person or title * Friendship ...

, an Australian short 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 referred ...

or Māte, epithet for goddesses in Latvian mythology * "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

Acronyms

Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (disambiguation) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military * ...

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