Crossword clues for mating
mating
- Old Lib Dem leader keeps attending congress
- Finishing game, ready to get engrossed in periodical
- ___ call
- Word before call or season
- Winning chess matches
- Winning at chess
- Word with call or ritual
- Subject of some animal kingdom rituals
- Purpose of some calls of the wild
- Kind of season or call
- Checking out?
- Checking conclusively, in chess
- "The ___ Game" (1959 Tony Randall movie)
- Kind of call
- Endgame action
- Beating at chess
- Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- Copulate, of animals
- In a game of chess
- Make love
- The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- Bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- "The ___ Season," 1927 play
- Action in a chess match
- Married giant - disastrous wedding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mate \Mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mated; p. pr. & vb. n. Mating.]
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To match; to marry.
If she be mated with an equal husband.
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To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.
--Bacon.I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.
--Shak. To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.
To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches.
Wiktionary
Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket. n. (context zoology English) pairing of organisms for copulation. v
(present participle of mate English)
WordNet
n. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
Wikipedia
In biology, mating (or mateing in British English) is the pairing of opposite- sex or hermaphroditic organisms, usually for the purposes of sexual reproduction. Some definitions limit the term to pairing between animals, while other definitions extend the term to mating in plants and fungi. Fertilization is the fusion of both sex cell or gamete. Copulation is the union of the sex organs of two sexually reproducing animals for insemination and subsequent internal fertilization. Mating may also lead to external fertilization, as seen in amphibians, fishes and plants. For the majority of species, mating is between two individuals of opposite sexes. However, for some hermaphroditic species, copulation is not required because the parent organism is capable of self-fertilization ( autogamy); for example, banana slugs.
The term mating is also applied to related processes in bacteria, archaea and viruses. Mating in these cases involves the pairing of individuals, accompanied by the pairing of their homologous chromosomes and then exchange of genomic information leading to formation of recombinant progeny (see Mating systems).
Mating (1991) is a novel by American author Norman Rush. It is a first-person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980. It focuses on her relationship with Nelson Denoon, a controversial American anthropologist who has founded an experimental matriarchal village in the Kalahari desert.
Mating won the 1991 National Book Award for Fiction.
Usage examples of "mating".
The discussion on the mating habits of bestiary animals had not progressed as far as it had the last time she had brought up the subject with a man.
I ever tell you how interested the scribes who wrote the bestiaries were in the, uh, mating habits of the various animals?
He turned to bluster, not finding it easy to put into words his doubts about such a mating.
Breed male did not develop semen compatible to breeding without Mating.
Briefly, Brok considered explaining this complexity of Kaeradi mating to Tia, but she seemed beyond conversation.
Oga was proud of her new son, and Broud even more proud that his mate had given birth to a son so soon after their mating.
But if young people, before picking out their life partners, are thoroughly imbued with the idea that such qualities as energy, longevity, a sound constitution, public and private worth, are primarily due to heredity, and if they are taught to realize the fact that one marries not an individual but a family, the eugenist believes that better matings will be made, sometimes realized, sometimes insensibly.
Nagamar are rather good with the poisons also, and Mallat has a stable of guards with noses so sharp they could track a moth on its mating flight.
And if one of them was in musth, and one of us in oestrus, there would be a mating.
Mating or not, the ancient codes of command overweigh the more modern ones of connection: I cannot, in the new position that I have assumed, show any softness.
The Poles and Czechs and most of the French had been persecuted, prevented from mating and procreating, and finally even sterilized, until their stock had been completely destroyed.
He dipped into learned works on the mating habits of the bower bird, the decoction of ethers and esters and imitation Irish whiskey, the electronic marvels of the Space Age, proctology made easy, hypnotism, herpetology, and the magical and therapeutic properties of the ancient Chinese pharmacopoeia.
Song of Reinflated, of fallen voices, rising, singing again, ofEvercalm, of food-full skies in place of no mating, no birthing, no bagburst, strifeless and ev-ersong perfect.
Song of Reinflated, of fallen voices, rising, singing again, of Evercalm, of food-full skies in place of no mating, no birthing, no bagburst, strifeless and eversong perfect.
He was amused to note that Shouter was appalled at the notion of adults mating with each other, and of men having an equal voice with women in the making of the laws.