Mat
[mæt]
Definition
(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.) a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven; 'a mat of weeds and grass'.
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Definition
(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.
Checker: Seymour
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Braid, weave, plait, plat.
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Definition
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.
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Keep away from mats in your dreams, as they will usher you into sorrow and perplexities.
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Examples
- The visitor, however, brought himself up safely on the door-mat. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I thought he never would have done wiping his feet, and that I must have gone out to lift him off the mat, but at last he came in. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mat, said Mr. George, you have heard pretty well all I have been saying to this lady and these two gentlemen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Through the greater part of Europe, a kitchen garden is not at present supposed to deserve a better inclosure than mat recommended by Columella. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Why, bless her, Mat, returns the trooper, I think the higher of her for it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You are right, Mat! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Twice had he entered huts at night while the inmates lay sleeping upon their mats, and stolen the arrows from the very sides of the warriors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Ever touched the broom, or spread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is then worked into sheets or mats between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The fronds are wrought into baskets, brooms, mats, sacks and many other useful articles; and the trunks are made into boats, and furnish timber for the construction of houses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Miss Kate sketched and Frank talked to Beth, who was making little mats of braided rushes to serve as plates. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We visited the jail and found Moorish prisoners making mats and baskets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My slippers were thin: I could walk the matted floor as softly as a cat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This combed out the matted tow of the hemp into clean, straight fiber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And so he started, stumbling back through the thick and matted underbrush in the direction that he thought the cabin lay. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Its untouched mazes of matted jungle had as yet invited no hardy pioneer from the human beasts beyond its frontier. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Do you remember the matted-up currant bushes, Margaret, at the corner of the west-wall in the garden at home? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- For several hours he traveled a little north of east until he came to an impenetrable wall of matted and tangled vegetation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A piece of matting has been laid here at the side, and we have all stood upon that. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The laborers and their families sleep in hammocks or on matting on the floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Matting is woven; wire, cane, straw, spun glass; in fact, everything that can be woven by hand into useful articles now finds its especially constructed machine for weaving it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The fibrous coat of the nut is made into a preparation called cellulose, which is described in another story in this book, and also into the well-known cocoanut matting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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