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Matte  n.  
1.
(Metallurgy) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.
2.
A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.






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"Matte" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... 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 ...
— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge



Words linked to "Matte" :   flat, matted, flatness, felt up, felt, lusterlessness, dull, matte up, sparkle metal, matt, mixture, matt-up, change, mat, mat up, dullness



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