Mate

Mate may refer to one of the following meanings based on the generic dictionary definitions of the word:

• One of a pair of animals involved in mating
• Mate (colloquialism), a colloquialism used to refer to a friend
• A naval officer:
  • A deck officer aboard a merchant vessel, such as the Chief Mate, Second Mate, or Third Mate
  • A rank used between 1840 and 1860, now known as Sub-Lieutenant
  • Other naval ratings, such as Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, and shipmate
• Running mate, a fellow candidate for the same party in one election

It may also refer to:

Cuisine

• Mate (beverage), the popular caffeinated beverage made from yerba maté
  • Mate or Yerba maté (yerba: Spanish word for herb), a South American herb used to make the beverage
• Coca tea or mate de coca, a beverage made from coca

Surnames

• Gábor Máté (athlete), Hungarian discus thrower
• Gábor Máté (physician), a Hungarian-born Canadian physician and expert on Addiction and Stress
• Sébastien Maté, French footballer
• Vasily Mate (1856–1917), Russian artist and engraver

Given names

• Mate (given name)

Other fields

• Short for checkmate, a winning/losing situation in chess
• Mahte, a goddess in Latvian mythology, also spelled Māte
• Mate Recordings, a record label
• Mate Tusanga, a non-profit online mathematical tool
• Mate (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Mate, an open-source Flex application framework
• MATE (desktop environment), a fork of GNOME 2 Desktop Environment

Acronyms

• Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, a specialized high school in Manahawkin, New Jersey
• Multi antimicrobial extrusion protein, efflux transporter family of proteins