Mate

Mate may refer to:

Science

 * Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in:
 * Mate choice, intersexual selection
 * Mate choice in humans
 * Mating
 * Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins

Person or title

 * Friendship
 * Mateship
 * Mate (naval officer)
 * Chief mate, also known as first mate
 * Second mate
 * Third mate
 * Third (curling), also known as a vice, vice-skip, or mate, the team member who delivers the second-to-last pair of a team's stones in an end

Given names

 * Mate (given name)
 * Máté (given name)

Surname

 * Máté (surname)

Beverages

 * Mate (drink) (/ˈmɑːte/), made from the yerba mate plant
 * Mate, a traditional South American container carved from a dried calabash
 * Mate de coca, or coca tea

Technology

 * MATE (desktop environment) (/ˈmɑːteɪ/) stylised in capitals, a fork of GNOME 2 (desktop shell for desktop hardware)
 * Mate or mating condition, a synonym for constraints used in computer-aided design (CAD)
 * Huawei Mate series, a smartphone series by the Chinese company Huawei

Other uses

 * Mate (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Mate (2019 film), a South Korean film
 * Mate (2021 film), an Australian short film
 * Mahte or Māte, epithet for goddesses in Latvian mythology
 * "Mate", shortened from checkmate, a winning/losing situation in chess

Acronyms

 * Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, or MATES, a high school in Manahawkin, New Jersey