mate vs love

mate and love both are nouns.

mate and love both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mate	Yes	No	Yes	No
love	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, love is a hyponym of mate; that is, love is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mate:

mate: engage in sexual intercourse
love: have sexual intercourse with

Other hyponyms of mate include nick, bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, tread, serve, service, deflower, ruin, mount, ride, breed, cover, bugger, sodomise, sodomize, sodomise, sodomize.

mate (noun)	love (noun)
a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king	sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
an exact duplicate	any object of warm affection or devotion
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate	a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
a person's partner in marriage	a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)	a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
the officer below the master on a commercial ship	a score of zero in tennis or squash
informal term for a friend of the same sex
a fellow member of a team
South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
one of a pair

mate (verb)	love (verb)
place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game	have sexual intercourse with
engage in sexual intercourse	have a great affection or liking for
bring two objects, ideas, or people together	be enamored or in love with
	get pleasure from

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