mate

/meɪt/

意味: 仲間、配偶者

例文: Momo lost his favorite toy mate.
　　  モモがお気に入りの仲間のおもちゃを失くした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: best mate(親友), class mate(クラスメート), soul mate(ソウルメイト)

定義: 友達や仲間を指す言葉です。イギリス英語では「友達」という意味でよく使われます。また、動物のつがいを指すこともあります。

mateは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the officer below the master on a commercial ship
Noun: a fellow member of a team
Noun: the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
Noun: a person’s partner in marriage
Noun: an exact duplicate
Noun: one of a pair
Noun: South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
Noun: informal term for a friend of the same sex
Noun: South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
Noun: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent’s king
Verb: engage in sexual intercourse
Verb: bring two objects, ideas, or people together
Verb: place an opponent’s king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

He is my best mate from school.(彼は学校の親友です。)
They found a mate for the lonely bird.(彼らは寂しい鳥のつがいを見つけました。)
Let’s mate these two puzzle pieces together.(この二つのパズルのピースを合わせましょう。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: it was his first start against his former teammates
Noun: he loved the mare and all her mates
Noun: camels hate leaving their mates
Noun: when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook
Noun: he lost the mate to his shoe
Noun: one eye was blue but its fellow was brown
Verb: Birds mate in the Spring
Verb: This fact is coupled to the other one
Verb: Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
Verb: The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
Verb: Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea, better half, checkmate, copulate, couple, fellow, first mate, married person, match, mate, pair, partner, spouse, teammate, twin

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): animal, associate, beat, beverage, chess move, domestic partner, duplicate, friend, holly, join, officer, relative, singleton

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acrodont, adjunct, adult, affiliate, agnate, alcohol, ally, alter ego, american holly, amigo, anastomose, ancestor, ankylose, assemble, attach, backup, bearberry, bedfellow, best friend, biped, blood relation, bridge, brother, buddy, captive, capture, castle, cheat, check, checkmate, chordate, cider, close, close up, cocoa, coffee, cog, collaborator, colleague, common winterberry holly, companion, confidant, connect, cooler, copulate, counterpart, cousin, cream, creepy-crawly, critter, cross-link, darter, deciduous holly, descendant, domestic animal, drinking water, eliminate, embryo, enate, fair, feather, feeder, female, fictional animal, fizz, flatmate, fruit drink, fruit juice, gambit, game, geogia holly, get the best, get the jump, giant, ginger beer, girlfriend, graft, herbivore, hexapod, homeotherm, hydromel, immobilize, in-law, inkberry, insectivore, invertebrate, juneberry holly, kin, kinsman, kinswoman, kissing cousin, knit, largeleaf holly, larva, ligate, light, lover, low gallberry holly, male, marine animal, master, match, mate, member, metazoan, migrator, milk, miter, mixer, molter, mortice, mutant, near beer, next of kin, oenomel, offspring, omnivore, outdo, outfight, outplay, outpoint, overcome, overpower, participant, patch, peeper, pest, pet, pleurodont, ply, poikilotherm, potion, predator, prey, privateer, purser, quilt, rabbet, racer, range animal, rebate, refresher, roommate, sailing master, scarf, scavenger, schoolfriend, seam, second cousin, shipmate, sibling, smooth winterberry holly, smoothie, soft drink, solder, sovietize, splice, spouse, spread-eagle, stayer, steward, stunt, supercargo, surpass, survivor, tall gallberry holly, tea, tea-like drink, teammate, thoroughbred, varmint, walk over, weld, whomp, wish-wash, work animal, worst, yaupon holly, yoke, young, zooplankton

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bigamist, breed, consort, deflower, helpmate, husband, mismatch, mismate, monogamist, newlywed, nick, polygamist, ride, serve, sleep together, sodomize, tread, wife

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: checkmate, copulation, copulatory, couple, coupling, match, mate, matey, mating, pair, pairing, spousal

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive, trust