mat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English matte (“mat”), from Old English meatte (“mat”), from Late Latin matta (“mat made of rushes”), from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Cognate with German Matte (“mat”), Danish måtte (“mat”), Faroese and Icelandic motta (“rug, mat”), Norwegian matte (“mat, rug”), Swedish matta (“carpet, rug, mat”).
Inflected forms:
form: mats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: matting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: matted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: matted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
pos: noun
examples: Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.
gloss: A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
pos: noun
examples: They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
gloss: A floor pad to protect athletes.
pos: noun
examples: The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.
gloss: A thickly tangled mess.
pos: noun
examples: a mat of weeds
But to return to where we left her, I see her still, propped up in a kind of stupor against one of the walls in which this wretched edifice abounds, her long grey greasy hair framing in its cowl of scrofulous mats a face where pallor, languor, hunger, acne, recent dirt, immemorial chagrin and surplus hair seemed to dispute the mastery.
gloss: A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
pos: noun
examples: Iceland moss growing in a mat
The fad for blaming all mass extinctions (such as happened at the end of the Cretaceous when the dinosaurs vanished) on impacts of objects from space was extended to the Pleistocene in 2007. That year a group of scientists proposed that the North American extinctions were due to a comet or meteorite impact over the Carolinas, near the beginning of the Younger Dryas event, about 12,900 years ago. The original evidence for this supposed impact was a "black mat" of organic material in many Clovis sites, plus microscopic nano-diamonds in deep-sea cores, and rare Platinum group metals in Greenland ice cores from around 12,900 years ago.
gloss: To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Be careful now to keep the Doors and Windows of your Conservatories well matted
gloss: To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.
Derived words: algal mat
baking mat
bath mat
beer mat
biomat
bouldering mat
camping mat
chair mat
cocomat
collision mat
crashmat
dance mat
demat
doormat
dustmat
filtermat
floor mat
floormat
gauze mat
go to the mat
intermat
lick mat
mat amaranth
matball
matboard
mat daisy
matgrass
matless
matlike
matmaker
matmaking
matman
mat slab
matty
matweed
mouse mat
on the mat
paunch mat
place mat
playmat
prayer mat
roll mat
sea mat
Siskiyou mat
sleeping mat
slipmat
splat mat
surf mat
sword mat
tablemat
table mat
tumbling mat
welcome mat
yoga mat
Zanzibar mat
unmat
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: подложка
roman: podložka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 桌墊 /桌垫
roman: zhuōdiàn
lang: Dutch
word: mat
lang: Dutch
word: onderlegger
lang: Dutch
word: placemat
lang: Finnish
word: alunen
lang: German
word: Matte
lang: German
word: Unterlage
lang: Italian
word: sottopiatto
lang: Russian
word: подста́вка
roman: podstávka
lang: Spanish
word: salvamanteles
lang: Spanish
word: posavasos (coaster)
lang: Swedish
word: matta
lang: Thai
word: เสื่อ
roman: sʉ̀ʉa