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In talk about animals, mating is sex: the act of coming together to make young. People say “mating season” for the time of year when many animals do this. Nature films, biology class, and zoo signs use it as the calm, straight word. With people, English usually does not: it sounds as if you are talking about animals, which can feel cold or rude. Though actually scientists sometimes use it for humans in a technical way; that is lab language, not kind everyday language. Mating can also be the -ing form of the verb mate. This entry is the animal act.
交配（多指動物）
組成mate (of animals, to pair for sex) + -ing.
同家族的字
- matethe verb, and the partner-word, this noun is built from
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
matingadj/ˈmeɪtɪŋ/
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Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
matingnoun/ˈmeɪtɪŋ/
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyPairing of organisms for copulation.
- The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologySexual union; copulation.
- Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。