mating : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mating	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mating
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mating n the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" Synonym(s): coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mate \Mate\, v. t. [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.