Mat

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When you walk into someone else's house, it's polite to wipe your feet on the mat the pad that covers part of the floor inside the front door.

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A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

Noun
a thick flat pad used as a floor covering

Noun
sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports

Noun
a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it

Noun
mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

Noun
the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

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Noun
a master''s degree in teaching

Verb
change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes"

Verb
twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord"

Adjective S.
not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"

n.
A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

a.
Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.

n.
A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.

n.
Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.

n.
Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.

n.
An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.

v. t.
To cover or lay with mats.

v. t.
To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

v. i.
To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.

Mat

Mat , n. [Cf. Matte.] A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal. [Written also matt.]

Mat

Mat, a. [OF. See 4th Mate.] Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain. [Obs.]

When he saw them so piteous and so maat.

Mat

Mat, n. [AS. matt, meatt, fr. L. matta a mat made of rushes.] 1. A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes. 2. Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like. 3. Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair. 4. An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype. Mat grass. (Bot.) (a) A low, tufted, European grass (Nardus stricta). (b) Same as Matweed. -- Mat rush (Bot.), a kind of rush (Scirpus lacustris) used in England for making mats.

Mat

Mat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Matting.] 1. To cover or lay with mats. Evelyn. 2. To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.

Mat

Mat, v. i. To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.

A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.

To cover or lay with mats.

To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.

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