0 past simple and past participle of mate
1 to have sex and produce young, or to make animals do this:
The nature of the signal conveyed by a mated female to discourage subsequent matings was not reported in this case.
With the scheme of approach control step by step, the mated robot can finally achieve the desired target frame with ultra-precision kinematic accuracy.
In the design of shadow system, an ultra-precision rotary optical encoder is mated with ultra-precision bearings mounted at the revolute joint pair.
Because each dam was mated with only one sire, 146 full-sib families and ten half-sib families were produced.
Chimaeric mice were generated and mated with wild-type females.
Male mice were mated consecutively to individual females at 4 day intervals.
Mated female wasps were collected three to four days after emergence for use in the observations.
Females that showed no evidence of having mated were allowed to cohabit with the same male for approximately 3 weeks before being remated.
