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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
mated \mated\ adjective
1. Brought together for sexual activity; bred; -- of animals. [WordNet 1.5]
2. Sorted into pairs of identical size, color, or other properties; -- used of gloves, socks, etc.
Syn: paired. [WordNet 1.5]
3. Same as {married}. Opposite of {unmarried}; as, they were a devoted couple, mated for life. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mate \Mate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mating}.]
1. To match; to marry.
If she be mated with an equal husband. --Shak.
2. 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.
3. To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd. [PJC]
4. To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mated
adjective
1: mated sexually [ant: {unmated}]
2: used of gloves, socks, etc. [syn: {paired}]
3: of or relating to a marriage partner
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "mated": allied, assembled, associated, banded together, biconjugate, bigeminate, bijugate, bound, bracketed, collected, conjoined, conjugate, conjugated, connected, copulate, coupled, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, incorporated, integrated, intimate, joined, knotted, leagued, linked, married, matched, merged, one, paired, partnered, spliced, tied, undivided, united, unseparated, wedded, yoked
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