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Definitions for Mat

[1] a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
[2] a smaller piece of material, often ornamental, set under a dish of food, a lamp, vase, etc.
[3] Sports . the padded canvas covering the entire floor of a wrestling ring, for protecting the contestants from injury when thrown. a thick pad placed on the floor for the protection of tumblers and others engaged in gymnastic sports.
[4] a thickly growing or thick and tangled mass, as of hair or weeds.
[5] a sack made of matting, as for coffee or sugar.
[6] a slablike footing of concrete, especially one for an entire building.
[7] a heavy mesh reinforcement for a concrete slab.
[8] to cover with or as if with mats or matting.
[9] to form into a mat, as by interweaving.
[10] to become entangled; form tangled masses.
[11] go to the mat , to contend or struggle in a determined or unyielding way: The president is going to the mat with Congress over the proposed budget cuts.
[12] a piece of cardboard or other material placed over or under a drawing, painting, photograph, etc., to serve as a frame or provide a border between the picture and the frame.
[13] to provide (a picture) with a mat.
[14] matte1.
[15] the intaglio, usually of papiermâché, impressed from type or a cut, from which a stereotype plate is cast.
[16] matrix(def 8) .
[17] having a dull or lusterless surface: matte paint; a matte complexion; a photograph with a matte finish.
[18] a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
[19] a tool for producing such a surface.
[20] Metallurgy . an unfinished metallic product of the smelting of certain sulfide ores, especially those of copper.
[21] Movies . matte shot.
[22] to finish with a matte surface.
[23] matins.
[24] maturity.
[25] Master of Arts in Teaching.
[26] a thick flat piece of fabric used as a floor covering, a place to wipe one's shoes, etc
[27] a smaller pad of material used to protect a surface from the heat, scratches, etc, of an object placed upon it
[28] a large piece of thick padded material put on the floor as a surface for wrestling, judo, or gymnastic sports
[29] NZ a Māori cloak
[30] go back to the mat NZ to abandon urban civilization
[31] any surface or mass that is densely interwoven or tangled a mat of grass and weeds
[32] the solid part of a lace design
[33] a heavy net of cable or rope laid over a blasting site to prevent the scatter of debris a heavy mesh of reinforcement in a concrete slab (esp US) a steel or concrete raft serving as a footing to support a post
[34] civil engineering short for mattress (def. 3)
[35] to tangle or weave or become tangled or woven into a dense mass
[36] (tr) to cover with a mat or mats
[37] a border of cardboard, cloth, etc, placed around a picture to act as a frame or as a contrast between picture and frame
[38] a surface, as on metal or paint
[39] having a dull, lustreless, or roughened surface
[40] to furnish (a picture) with a mat
[41] to give (a surface) a mat finish
[42] printing informal short for matrix (def. 5)
[43] matinée
[44] an impure fused material consisting of metal sulphides produced during the smelting of a sulphide ore
[45] films television a mask used to blank out part of an image so that another image can be superimposed

Words related to Mat

dishevel, doily, doormat, entangle, twine, entwine, twist, snarl, braid, tangle, weave, felt, pad, interweave

Words nearby Mat

masur, masuria, masurian, masurium, masvingo, mat, mat grass, mat., mat.e., mata hari, mata-mata

Origin of Mat

te11640–50; < French mat (masculine), matte (feminine), Old French < Late Latin mattus moist, soft, weak, perhaps < *maditus, derivative of Latin madēre to be wet

Other words from Mat

mat·less , adjective

Word origin for Mat

teC19: from French

Synonyms for Mat

place mat, doily, doormat, floor covering, place setting, table mat, table runner