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Mating   /mˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Mating

noun
1.
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.  Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, pairing, sexual union, union.  "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"



Mate

verb
(past & past part. mated; pres. part. mating)
1.
Engage in sexual intercourse.  Synonyms: copulate, couple, pair.
2.
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together.  Synonyms: couple, match, pair, twin.  "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
3.
Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.  Synonym: checkmate.



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"Mating" Quotes from Famous Books



... cowboys walked badly; on horseback they might be kings of the earth, but out of the saddle they rolled like sailors. Clint Wadley noticed that the legs of this young fellow were straight and that he trod the ground lightly as a buck in mating-season. ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine

... learned of it, of his bewildered application to her in New York, and how he had been helped. She was a long time telling it, and all the while she was thinking of the tender things happening in the next room. She heard the murmuring of their voices, as full of meaning as the flutings of mating birds. And ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... had been there about six months when Sainte-Croix was brought to the same place. The prisoners were numerous just then, so the governor had his new guest put up in the same room as the old one, mating Exili and Sainte-Croix, not knowing that they were a pair of demons. Our readers now understand the rest. Sainte-Croix was put into an unlighted room by the gaoler, and in the dark had failed to see his companion: he had abandoned himself to his rage, his imprecations had revealed his state ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... absence o'er thy visible empery Throws a dim pall. Now are thy nights widowed of love and kisses, Now are thy days robbed of the night's awaiting, Now are thy lips purposeless and thy blisses No longer of the size of thy life, mating Thy empire with thy ...
— Antinous: A Poem • Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa

... dangerous, he strikes an attitude on a branch, and commences to quack and bark, with an accompanying movement of his tail. Late in the afternoon, when the same stillness reigns, the same scenes are repeated. There is a black variety, quite rare, but mating freely with the gray, from which he seems to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various


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