'Mating' definitions:
Definition of 'mating'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
Definition of 'Mating'
From: GCIDE
- Mate \Mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mated; p. pr. & vb. n. Mating.]
- 1. To match; to marry. [1913 Webster]
- If she be mated with an equal husband. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. [1913 Webster]
- There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd. [PJC]
- 4. To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'mating'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act of love,
- adultery,
- aphrodisia,
- ass,
- balling,
- carnal knowledge,
- climax,
- cohabitation,
- coition,
- coitus,
- coitus interruptus,
- commerce,
- congress,
- connection,
- copula,
- copulation,
- coupling,
- diddling,
- fornication,
- intercourse,
- intimacy,
- lovemaking,
- making it with,
- marital relations,
- marriage act,
- meat,
- onanism,
- orgasm,
- ovum,
- pareunia,
- procreation,
- relations,
- screwing,
- sex,
- sex act,
- sexual climax,
- sexual commerce,
- sexual congress,
- sexual intercourse,
- sexual relations,
- sexual union,
- sleeping with,
- sperm,
- venery