Complement and Mate

complement

A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction.
A complete number or quantity.
- usage: "a full complement"
Number needed to make up a whole force.
- usage: "a full complement of workers"
- synonyms: full complement
Something added to complete or embellish or make perfect.
- usage: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"
- synonyms: accompaniment
One of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response.
Either of two parts that mutually complete each other.

Make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to.
- usage: "I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup"

(v.t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
(v.t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
(v.t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
(v.t.) To compliment.
(v.t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
(v.t.) A compliment.
(v.t.) Full quantity, number or amount; a complete set; completeness.
(v.t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
(v.t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
(v.t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency or to complete a symmetrical whole.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

mate

The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
- synonyms: first mate
A fellow member of a team.
- usage: "it was his first start against his former teammates"
- synonyms: teammate
The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner. )
- usage: "he loved the mare and all her mates"; "camels hate leaving their mates"
A person's partner in marriage.
- synonyms: spouse, partner, married person, better half
An exact duplicate.
- usage: "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook"
- synonyms: match
One of a pair.
- usage: "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"
- synonyms: fellow
South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea.
- synonyms: Paraguay tea, Ilex paraguariensis
Informal term for a friend of the same sex.
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate.
A chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king.
- synonyms: checkmate

Engage in sexual intercourse.
- usage: "Birds mate in the Spring"
- synonyms: copulate, pair, couple
Bring two objects, ideas, or people together.
- usage: "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
- synonyms: match, couple, pair, twin
Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.
- usage: "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"
- synonyms: checkmate

(v.t.) To confuse; to confound.
(n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
(n.) The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
(n.) Same as Checkmate.
(v.t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
(n.) Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
(n.) 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.
(v.t.) To checkmate.
(v.t.) To match; to marry.
(a.) See 2d Mat.
(v.i.) 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.
(n.) A suitable companion; a match; an equal.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

MÁtÉ is either masculine or feminine given name