mate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: checkmate |
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(noun) an exact duplicate | Synonyms: match |
(noun) South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | - |
(noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, partner, spouse |
(noun) the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | - |
(noun) the officer below the master on a commercial ship | Synonyms: first mate |
(noun) informal term for a friend of the same sex | - |
(noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: teammate |
(noun) South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | Synonyms: Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea |
(noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: fellow |
matelote | (noun) highly seasoned soup or stew made of freshwater fishes (eel, carp, perch) with wine and stock | - |
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mater | (noun) an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously | - |
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materfamilias | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: matriarch |
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material | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, fabric, textile |
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(noun) things needed for doing or making something | - |
(noun) information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form | - |
(noun) a person judged suitable for admission or employment | - |
(noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: stuff |
materialisation | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialization |
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(noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialization, offspring |
(noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialization |
materialism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality | Synonyms: physicalism |
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(noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: philistinism |
materialist | (noun) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | - |
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(noun) someone with great regard for material possessions | - |
materiality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, corporeality, physicalness |
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(noun) relevance requiring careful consideration | - |
materialization | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation |
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(noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, offspring |
(noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialisation |
materiel | (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: equipage |
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maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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(noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
maternity | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, motherliness |
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(noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: motherhood |
(noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, pregnancy |
mates | (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: couple, match |
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