mat
nounEtymology
Inherited from Middle English matte (“mat”), from Old English meatte (“mat”), from Late Latin matta (“mat made of rushes”), from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Cognate with German Matte (“mat”), Danish måtte (“mat”), Faroese and Icelandic motta (“rug, mat”), Norwegian matte (“mat, rug”), Swedish matta (“carpet, rug, mat”).
Definitions
A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or…
A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.
A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough
A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
A floor pad to protect athletes.
- The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.
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A thickly tangled mess.
- a mat of weeds
A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a…
A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
A thin surface layer
A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
- Iceland moss growing in a mat
To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
- Be careful now to keep the Doors and Windows of your Conservatories well matted
To form a thick, tangled mess
To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
- And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.
Clipping of material.
- I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped.
- Using a Weapon Upgrade Bench, it's possible to upgrade a Common Shotgun, for example, all the way to Legendary provided you've harvested enough mats to do so.
- While there are game modes where you can build without any requirements, you'll need to harvest materials to build in normal Fortnite games. Mats is the shortened version of materials.
An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.
An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
Alternative form of matte (“instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface”).
Alternative form of matte (“to produce a dull, lustreless surface on metal”).
Abbreviation of matinee (“performance at a theater”).
Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”).
- the mat of a daguerreotype
Alternative form of matte (“not reflecting light”).
- Frons mat black, orbits slightly paler, more greyish; mesonotum distinctly mat, greyish-black, but with some subshine; […]
Clipping of matrix.
Vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language…
Vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.
- Don't you people have anything better to do than collecting mat. I still can't undestand why people in (and from) the ex-USSR like to swear so much.
A diminutive of the male given name Matthew.
a Malay man
Initialism of medication-assisted treatment.
Initialism of Master of Arts in Teaching.
The neighborhood
Derived
algal mat, baking mat, bath mat, beer mat, biomat, bouldering mat, camping mat, chair mat, cocomat, collision mat, crashmat, dance mat, demat, doormat, dustmat, filtermat, floor mat, floormat, gauze mat, go to the mat, intermat, mat amaranth, matball, matboard, mat daisy, matgrass, matless, matlike, matmaker, matmaking, matman, mat slab, matty, matweed, mouse mat, on the mat, paunch mat, place mat, playmat, prayer mat · +15 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at mat. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at mat. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at mat
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA