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

People Given names Mate (given name) Máté (given name)

Surname Máté (surname)

Beverages Mate (drink), 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), 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 Mahte or Māte, epithet for goddesses in Latvian mythology "Mate", shortened from checkmate, a winning/losing situation in chess "Mate", the Ulster-scots word for food Yerba mate, a plant native to South America Mate (company), company manufacturing magnetic and functional composite compounds

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

See also Inmate, a prisoner Mates, a surname Matte (disambiguation) Running mate, a fellow candidate for the same party in one election