mat
see also: Mat, MAT
Pronunciation Noun
Mat
Proper noun
MAT
Noun
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see also: Mat, MAT
Pronunciation Noun
mat (plural mats)
- 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 coaster.
- They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
- (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
- The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.
- A thickly tangled mess.
- a mat of hair
- a mat of weeds
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
- Iceland moss growing in a mat
- French: foot wiping device: paillasson, tapis, floor covering: carpette, tapis, natte
- German: Matte
- Italian: stuoia, stoino, graticcio
- Portuguese: capacho
- Russian: foot wiping device: ко́врик
- Spanish: alfombrilla, felpudo
- German: Matte, Unterlage
- Italian: sottopiatto
- Russian: подста́вка
- Spanish: salvamanteles, posavasos (coaster)
- German: Matte
- Italian: materassino
- Russian: мат
- Spanish: colchoneta
- French: épais fouillis
- Russian: ком
- Russian: подсти́лка
mat (mats, present participle matting; past and past participle matted)
- (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
- (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
- And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.
mat
- (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
mat (plural mats)
- (dated slang) Abbreviation of matinee#English|matinee performance at a theater.
- 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, Vol. 6, page 27:
- A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
- 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, Vol. 6, page 27:
mat (plural mats)
- (video games, slang) A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
- To make a luck potion, you need several rare herbs as mats.
mat (plural mats)
- Alternative spelling of matte
- the mat of a daguerreotype
Mat
Proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given name Matthew.
MAT
Noun
mat (plural mats)
- Initialism of medication-assisted treatment
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