mate vs tread

mate and tread both are nouns.

mate and tread both are verbs.

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

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

mate: engage in sexual intercourse
tread: mate with (used of male birds)

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, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, serve, service, deflower, ruin, mount, ride, breed, cover, bugger, sodomise, sodomize, sodomise, sodomize.

mate (noun)	tread (noun)
a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king	a step in walking or running
an exact duplicate	structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate	the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground
a person's partner in marriage	the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire
the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
the officer below the master on a commercial ship
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)	tread (verb)
place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game	crush as if by treading on
engage in sexual intercourse	brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center
bring two objects, ideas, or people together	mate with (used of male birds)
	tread or stomp heavily or roughly
	put down or press the foot, place the foot
	apply (the tread) to a tire

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