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Definition of 'mat' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) mat
a piece of fabric, as of plaited or woven fiber, used on a floor or other surface as a covering.

2.  mat
a smaller piece of material set under an object, as a dish.

3.  mat
a thick pad placed on a floor to protect wrestlers, tumblers, and gymnasts.

4.  mat
a thick tangled mass, as of hair or weeds.

5. (v.t.) mat
to cover with or as if with mats or matting.

6.  mat
to form into a mat, as by interweaving.

7. (v.i.) mat
to form tangled masses.

8. (n.) mat
material serving as a frame or border for a picture.

9. (v.t.) mat
to provide (a picture) with a mat.

Etymology:  (1920–25; shortened form of matrix)

Definition of 'mat' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) mat
a thick flat pad used as a floor covering

2. (noun) mat, matting
mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

3. (noun) mat, gym mat
sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports

4. (noun) mat
a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven
"a mat of weeds and grass"

5. (noun) Master of Arts in Teaching, MAT
a master's degree in teaching

6. (noun) flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte
the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

7. (adj) mat
a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it

8. (verb) flat, mat, matt, matte, matted
not reflecting light; not glossy
"flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"

9. (verb) entangle, tangle, mat, snarl
twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
"The child entangled the cord"

10. (verb) felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
"The fabric felted up after several washes"


Definition of 'mat' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) mat
a thick piece of material used to protect a surface
Wipe your feet on the mat.

2.  mat
a piece of material to lie on
an exercise mat; people sleeping on straw mats


Definition of 'mat' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) mat
cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain

2. (noun) mat
a name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal

3. (noun) mat
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

4. (noun) mat
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

5. (noun) mat
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

6. (noun) mat
an ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype

7. (verb) mat
to cover or lay with mats

8. (verb) mat
to twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle

9. (verb) mat
to grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat


Translation of 'mat' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a flat piece of material (rushes, rubber, carpet, cork etc) for wiping shoes on, covering a floor, or various other purposes
Wipe your shoes on the doormat; a table mat.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: mat Arabic flag Arabic: قِطْعَة مَسِح Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: черга
Brazilian flag Brazilian: tapete Czech flag Czech: rohož; krytina; podložka German flag German: die Matte, der Untersetze
Danish flag Danish: måtte; -måtte; dækkeservi Greek flag Greek: χαλάκι, σουβέρ Spanish flag Spanish: estera, felpudo
Estonian flag Estonian: matt Farsi flag Farsi: زیر پایی Finnish flag Finnish: matto
French flag French: (petit) tapis Hebrew flag Hebrew: שְׁטִיחוֹן Hindi flag Hindi: चटाई
Croatian flag Croatian: prostirač Hungarian flag Hungarian: lábtörlő; alátét Indonesian flag Indonesian: keset
Icelandic flag Icelandic: motta Italian flag Italian: tappetino Japanese flag Japanese: マット
Korean flag Korean: 매트, 돗자리 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: patiesalas, demblys Latvian flag Latvian: paklājiņš; kājslauķis; se
Malay flag Malay: tikar Dutch flag Dutch: mat Norwegian flag Norwegian: matte; løper; (kuvert)bri
Polish flag Polish: mata, wycieraczka Persian flag Persian: زیر پایی Pashto flag Pashto: پاپوښ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: tapete Romanian flag Romanian: preş; muşama Russian flag Russian: коврик; салфетка
Slovak flag Slovak: rohož; krytina; podložka Slovenian flag Slovenian: preproga Serbian flag Serbian: otirač
Swedish flag Swedish: matta, liten duk Thai flag Thai: เสื่อ Turkish flag Turkish: paspas, altlık
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 蓆子,墊子 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: рогожа; килимок Urdu flag Urdu: چٹائی، فرش، پا انداز
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: chiếu; thảm chùi chân Chinese flag Chinese: 席子,垫子

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