What's the difference between mare and mate?

Mare


Definition:

  • (n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
  • (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) GnRH infusion produced an immediate increase in plasma LH concentrations in the mares that ovulated during the infusion period and LH levels peaked at the time of ovulation.
  • (2) Group-2 mares (n = 32) were given a single dose of progesterone (625 mg, IM) in sesame oil.
  • (3) Increased concentrations of LH in ovariectomized mares during Periods 3 and 4 were associated with well defined pulsatile profiles.
  • (4) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
  • (5) Progesterone levels declined after Day 18 of the cycle in cycling mares, whereas they increased in the pregnant mares.
  • (6) There was, however, no difference in the overall elimination rate constant between foals and mares.
  • (7) However, when hypoxia occurred during colic surgery in the last 60 days of pregnancy, the mares either aborted or delivered severely compromised foals that did not survive.
  • (8) Mares may suffer from a variety of genital injuries including vulval separations, vaginal lacerations and, less commonly, vaginal rupture.
  • (9) Other than a brief increase (P less than .05) in PRL secretion in mares treated with E2, secretion of PRL did not differ (P greater than .1) among groups.
  • (10) Danazol was found to inhibit multiple enzymes of steroidogenesis directly in the pregnant mare serum (PMS)-treated hamster ovary and the rat testis and adrenal in vitro.
  • (11) An intra-abdominal abscess was diagnosed in a 7-year-old mare by palpation per rectum and from abnormal clinicopathologic findings.
  • (12) We have observed pinealitis in a mare with equine recurrent uveitis.
  • (13) In Experiment 1 pregnant mare's serum (PMS) was injected sc in doses of 25 IU between 8 and 9 A.M. on Day 0.
  • (14) Nine Przewalski's horse embryos were transferred surgically, and 2 non-surgically, to domestic Welsh-type pony mares.
  • (15) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
  • (16) A sandwich enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) for pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) using a microtiter plate was developed.
  • (17) Plasma concentrations of estrogens, gestagens, cortisol (F), 13, 14-dihydro, 15-keto PGF2 alpha (PGFM) and pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) in 10 Thoroughbred mares were measured for a 11-month pregnancy period.
  • (18) In mares in Group P + B there was no correlation between age and the values measured.
  • (19) The LH response to GnRH agonist (area under curve) was similar among groups at d 0 but was greater (P less than .05) for mares in group 3 on d 7 and 14 and groups 2 and 3 on d 21 than for controls.
  • (20) Asked if a Weston-super-Mare dairy farmer's claim that fewer than 100 been killed so far was accurate, a spokesman at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), would not confirm or deny the figure.

Mate


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (a.) See 2d Mat.
  • (v. t.) To confuse; to confound.
  • (v. t.) To checkmate.
  • (n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
  • (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.) A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
  • (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 match; to marry.
  • (v. t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (3) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
  • (4) Abnormal synaptonemal complexes were seen in all 19 crosses of N. crassa and N. intermedia that were examined, including matings between standard laboratory strains, inversions, Spore killers, and strains collected from nature.
  • (5) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
  • (6) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (7) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
  • (8) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (9) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (10) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (11) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
  • (12) Transfer of the shuttle vectors from B. uniformis donors to E. coli occurred at the same frequencies when the matings were done aerobically or anaerobically.
  • (13) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
  • (14) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
  • (15) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
  • (16) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
  • (17) Recombination between markers was observed in matings between phage beta and the heteroimmune corynebacteriophages gamma and L. In such matings between heteroimmune phages the c markers of phages beta and gamma failed to segregate from the imm markers which determine the specificity of lysogenic immunity in these phages.
  • (18) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
  • (19) On the basis of segregating phenotypes, the genetic potentials of these compatible nocardiae were ascertained as follows: the formation of a diploid with subsequent segregation of parental or haploid recombinant genomes or both; persistence of the diploid through many generations; continuing reassortment of genetic information by multiple matings between parental or recombinant organisms; and, very probably, second-round recombinations within the diploid.
  • (20) A test mating between two Manchester Terriers affected by Perthes' disease (PD) resulted in the birth of three affected males and two unaffected females.

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