Definitions for mat
mætmat

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. matnoun

   a thick flat pad used as a floor covering

2. mat, mattingnoun

   mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

3. mat, gym matnoun

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

4. matnoun

   a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven

   "a mat of weeds and grass"

5. Master of Arts in Teaching, MATnoun

   a master's degree in teaching

6. flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, mattenoun

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

7. matadjective

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

8. flat, mat, matt, matte, mattedverb

   not reflecting light; not glossy

   "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"

9. entangle, tangle, mat, snarlverb

   twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

   "The child entangled the cord"

10. felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, matverb

    change texture so as to become matted and felt-like

    "The fabric felted up after several washes"

GCIDERate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Matnoun

   A thick flat fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, placed on the floor and used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room to protect its surface, and for other purposes.

2. Matnoun

   Any similar flat object made of fabric or other material, such as rubber or plastic, placed flat on a surface for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.

3. Matverb

   To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat, as hair when wetted with a sticky substance; as, a long-haired cat whose fur is matted.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. matnoun

   A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one's feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.

   Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.

2. matnoun

   A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.

   They put mats on the table during mealtimes.

3. matnoun

   A floor pad to protect athletes.

   The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.

4. matnoun

   A thickly tangled mess, of hair etc.

   a mat a hair

5. matnoun

   A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

6. matnoun

   A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.

7. matverb

   To cover, protect or decorate with mats.

8. matverb

   To form a thick, tangled mess.

9. Matnoun

   A diminutive of the male given name Matthew.

10. Etymology: meatte, from matta, from (compare miṭṭāh 'bed, couch').

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MATnoun

   A texture of sedge, flags, or rushes.

   Etymology: meatte , Saxon; matte, German; matta, Lat.

   The women and children in the west of Cornwall make mats of a small and fine kind of bents there growing, which serve to cover floors and walls. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.

   In the worst inn’s worst room, with mat half hung,
   The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung. Alexander Pope.

2. To Matverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To cover with mats.

   Keep the doors and windows of your conservatories well matted, and guarded from the piercing air. John Evelyn, Kalendar.

   2. To twist together; to join like a mat.

   I on a fountain light,
   Whose brim with pinks was platted;
   The banks with daffadillies dight,
   With grass like sleave was matted. Michael Drayton, Qu. of Cynthia.

   Sometimes beneath an ancient oak,
   Or on the matted grass he lies;
   No god of sleep he did invoke,
   The stream that o’er the pebbles flies,
   With gentle slumber crowns his eyes. Dryden.

   He look’d a lion with a gloomy stare,
   And o’er his eye-brows hung his matted hair. Dryden.

   The spleen consisteth of muscular fibres, all matted, as in the skin, but in more open work. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mat

   A mat is a piece of fabric or other material placed on a surface for various purposes such as preventing dirt from spreading, providing protection, acting as a non-slip surface, or for aesthetic appeal. Mats are often used on floors, tabletops, in cars, and for exercising. They come in various sizes, shapes, colors, and materials, depending on their specific use.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Matnoun

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

2. Matadjective

   cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain

3. Matnoun

   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. Matnoun

   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. Matnoun

   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. Matnoun

   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. Matverb

   to cover or lay with mats

8. Matverb

   to twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle

9. Matverb

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

10. Etymology: [OF. See 4th Mate.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mat

   A mat is a generic term for a piece of fabric or flat material, generally placed on a floor or other flat surface, which serves a range of purposes including: ⁕providing a regular or flat surface, such as a mousepad. ⁕protecting that which is beneath the mat, such as a place mat or the matting used in archival framing and preservation of documents and paintings. ⁕protecting that which is above the mat, such as a wrestling or gymnastics mat, or an anti-vibration mat. ⁕changing the state of that which passes above it, such as a doormat attracting dirt from shoes. In domestic settings: ⁕A doormat, more frequently spelled door-mat, is a flat, usually rectangular object placed immediately outside or inside the entrance to a house or other building, to allow people to easily scrub or wipe the soles of their shoes before entering. Doormats are usually made from tough, long-lasting material such as coir, palmyra fibres and stalks, nylon, rubber, cloth, or aluminium and other metals. Doormats may also be known as welcome mats, as their location at an entrance constitutes a "welcome" to visitors, and may therefore also bear some word, message or sign of greeting. This in turn has given rise to a subculture of cartoons featuring characters returning home to find a humorous message on the doormat. The lowly purpose for which doormats exist has also led to informal use of the term as a reference to people who behave timidly or passively when exploited by others.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mat

   mat, n. a texture of sedge, rushes, straw, &c. for cleaning the feet on: a web of rope-yarn: an ornamental border for a picture: a piece of cloth, &c. put below dishes on a table: anything like a mat in appearance, thick and closely set: any interwoven structure used as a revetment on river-banks, &c.: a sack of matting used to cover tea and coffee chests, such a sack containing a certain quantity of coffee: the closely-worked portion of lace: any annular pad to protect the head in bearing burdens.—v.t. to cover with mats: to interweave: to entangle:—pr.p. mat′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. mat′ted. [A.S. meatta—L. matta, a mat.]

2. Mat

   mat, adj. and n. having a dull or dead surface, without lustre: an instrument by means of which such is produced.—v.t. to produce such a surface on metal. [Ger. matt, dull.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mat

   To prevent chafing, a thick mat is woven from strands of old rope, spun yarn, or foxes, containing each a greater or lesser number of rope-yarns, in proportion to the intended mat to be made. The largest and strongest kinds are called paunch-mats. The thrum-mat is precisely similar to the present cocoa-nut fibre door-mats. Where it is possible, rounding is now used instead of mats, it being neater and holding less water.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mat

   A type of product created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.

   The mat for the straighteners was a great idea, it keeps them sturdy on the surface..

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 20, 2019  

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1. MAT

   What does MAT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the MAT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MAT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mat is ranked #74826 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Mat surname appeared 258 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mat.
   
   50% or 129 total occurrences were White.
   25.9% or 67 total occurrences were Asian.
   17% or 44 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   5.8% or 15 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Dullness
   • Floor Covering
   • Mass
   • Master's Degree
   • Mounting
   • Sports Equipment
   • Twist

Anagrams for mat »

1. AMT

2. atm

3. ATM

4. tam

5. TAM

6. TMA

How to pronounce mat?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say mat in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mat in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of mat in a Sentence

1. Jesse Ferguson:

   The case we have to make now is not,' Are you better off than you were ?' It's,' Are you getting better ?' it's not about how everything is hunky dory, but just that the country is getting up off the mat.

2. Bill Clinton:

   You’re supposed to shut your eyes, I don’t want to shut my eyes on national television, i can only say, based on my personal experience, that if you’re sitting cross-legged, on the yoga mat, and you’re doing it and you’re really trying to inhale, and hold it and then have a long exhale, it is very relaxing.

3. Julie Linton:

   There certainly need to be conditions that do not include lying on a mat with a Mylar blanket on a floor that is cold, and cage-like fencing that extends to the ceiling, we absolutely need pediatric health experts at the border.

4. Jennifer Dalven:

   These are not the folks that the public rallies around, these are not the folks that people are likely to go to the mat for. That's true with abortion. But it's also true across our society.

5. Luma Mufleh:

   It's a brutal life, to give empowerment and hope and opportunity and voice in something as simple as purchasing a mat -- I mean, it's that simple.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mat
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=mat
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mat
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=mat
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mat
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mat
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=mat
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=mat
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html