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Mat   /mæt/   Listen
Mat

noun
1.
A thick flat pad used as a floor covering.
2.
Mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture.  Synonym: matting.
3.
Sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports.  Synonym: gym mat.
4.
A mass that is densely tangled or interwoven.
5.
A master's degree in teaching.  Synonym: Master of Arts in Teaching.
6.
The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss.  Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, matt, matte.
7.
A small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it.
verb
(past & past part. matted; pres. part. matting)
1.
Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass.  Synonyms: entangle, snarl, tangle.  Antonyms: disentangle, unsnarl.
2.
Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like.  Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up.
adjective
1.
Not reflecting light; not glossy.  Synonyms: flat, matt, matte, matted.  "A photograph with a matte finish"



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"Mat" Quotes from Famous Books



... troubling me at all—particularly if Peters is about. I daresay you could find Peters, Alice, and if it's not troubling Peters too much, perhaps he would see to it. And ask the gentleman to come in. We can't keep him standing on the door-mat. ...
— Second Plays • A. A. Milne
... Oriental rugs. I had never allowed a child or dog in the house for fear of the matting, except of course my poor Lindo, who had died a few months previously, and whom I had taught to wipe his feet on the mat. ...
— The Lowest Rung - Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy • Mary Cholmondeley
... I'm going to tell you in the next story about Brighteyes and Sister Sallie—that is if no one takes our door mat to use for ...
— Buddy And Brighteyes Pigg - Bed Time Stories • Howard R. Garis
... the village, a matter of satisfaction to the professor, as it enabled him at once to plunge into his beloved work unobserved by the youngsters. It also afforded him a better opportunity of collecting moths, etcetera, by the simple method of opening his window at night. A mat or wicker-work screen divided the hut into two apartments, one of which was entirely given over to the ...
— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne
... at anything. Big Charley Everson drank him down at the beer busts. Harrison Jackson, at hammer- throwing, always exceeded his best by twenty feet. Carruthers out- pointed him at boxing. Anson Burge could always put his shoulders to the mat, two out of three, but always only by the hardest work. In English composition a fifth of his class excelled him. Edlin, the Russian Jew, out-debated him on the contention that property was robbery. Schultz and ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London


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