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 *

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 ** Mateship *

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, 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) 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), C ...

* 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) (/ˈmɑːte/), 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 (software) (/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, a smartphone series by the Chinese company Huawei

Other uses

* Mate (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse * Mate (2019 film), a South Korean film * Mate (2021 film), an Australian short film * Mahte 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, or MATES, a high school in Manahawkin, New Jersey