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Matte   /mæt/   Listen
Matte

noun
1.
A mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted.
2.
The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss.  Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt.
verb
1.
Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like.  Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte up.
adjective
1.
Not reflecting light; not glossy.  Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matted.  "A photograph with a matte finish"



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"Matte" Quotes from Famous Books



... so much a matte of business as of family,' said the Chevalier, still looking so uneasily at Philip that Berenger felt constrained to advise him to join the young ladies in the garden; but instead of doing this, the boy paced the corridors like a restless dog waiting ...
— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... a dozen times at least. Both men and women would be careful of their characters and polite in their behaviour, as well as delicate in their persons, and elegant in their dress, [a great matte each of these, let me tell thee, to keep passion alive,] either to induce a renewal with the old love, or to recommend themselves to a new. While the newspapers would be crowded with paragraphs; all the world their readers, as ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson

... the modus operandi is to prepare roadways through the ore, and from the roadways to put rises, from which sublevels are driven close under the floating mass of waste and ore,—sometimes called the "matte" (Fig. 45). The pillars between these sublevels are then cut away until the weight above crushes them down. When all the crushed ore which can be safely reached is extracted, retreat is made and ...
— Principles of Mining - Valuation, Organization and Administration • Herbert C. Hoover

... Weramacomoco, their Emperour, proudly lying upon a Bedstead a foote high upon tenne or twelve Mattes, richly hung with manie Chaynes of great Pearles about his necke, and covered with a great covering of Rahaughcums: At heade sat a woman, at his feete another, on each side sitting upon a Matte upon the ground were raunged his chiefe men on each side the fire, tenne in a ranke and behinde them as many yong women, each a great Chaine of white Beades over their shoulders: their heades painted in redde and with such a grave and Majeslicall countenance, as drove me into admiration ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study. photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype[obs3], calotype[obs3], heliotype[obs3]; negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print; enlargement, reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo. technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome; Polaroid. portrait &c. (representation) 554; whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... he had been able to gather regarding the matte of the fire-extinguishers, and as he talked Eliph' saw the butcher leave his shop and enter the drug store—he was after chemicals. He turned to the editor ...
— Kilo - Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent • Ellis Parker Butler

... pencil drawing &c, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study. photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype^, calotype^, heliotype^; negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print; enlargement, reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo. technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome; Polaroid. portrait &c (representation) 554; whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile. landscape, seapiece^; view, scene, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... amounts are produced in Norway and in several other countries. The control and movement of the Canadian and New Caledonian supplies are the salient features of the world nickel situation. Nickel leaves the producing countries mostly as matte. Canadian matte has been refined mainly in the United States, but the tendency is toward refining a larger proportion in Canada. In Europe there are refineries in France, England, Belgium, Germany, and Norway, which normally treat the bulk of the New Caledonian ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith



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