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  • English Word Mate Definition A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
  • English Word Mate Definition An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.
  • English Word Mate Definition To match; to marry.
  • English Word Mate Definition To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
  • English Word Mate Definition To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.
  • English Word Mated Definition of Mate
  • English Word Mateless Definition Having no mate.
  • English Word Matelote Definition A dish of food composed of many kinds of fish.
  • English Word Mateology Definition A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry.
  • English Word Mateotechny Definition Any unprofitable science.
  • English Word Mater Definition See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.
  • English Word Materia medica Definition Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.
  • English Word Materia medica Definition That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.
  • English Word Material Definition Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
  • English Word Material Definition Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
  • English Word Material Definition Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
  • English Word Material Definition Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
  • English Word Material Definition The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
  • English Word Material Definition To form from matter; to materialize.
  • English Word Materialism Definition The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
  • English Word Materialism Definition The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
  • English Word Materialism Definition Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
  • English Word Materialist Definition One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.
  • English Word Materialist Definition One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.
  • English Word Materialistic Definition Alt. of Materialistical
  • English Word Materialistical Definition Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism.
  • English Word Materiality Definition The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.
  • English Word Materiality Definition Importance; as, the materiality of facts.
  • English Word Materialization Definition The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
  • English Word Materialize Definition To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.