Definitions for Mat

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Mat mat

Spelling: [mat]

IPA: /mæt/

Mat is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Mat (amt).

Definitions for Mat

noun

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. 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.
9. the intaglio, usually of papiermâché, impressed from type or a cut, from which a stereotype plate is cast.
10. matrix (def 8).
11. a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
12. a tool for producing such a surface.
13. Metallurgy. an unfinished metallic product of the smelting of certain sulfide ores, especially those of copper.
14. Movies. matte shot.

Idioms

1. go to the mat, to contend or struggle in a determined or unyielding way:

adjective

1. having a dull or lusterless surface:

adjective, noun, verb

1. matte1 .

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as if with mats or matting.
2. to form into a mat, as by interweaving.
3. to provide (a picture) with a mat.
4. to finish with a matte surface.

verb (used without object)

1. to become entangled; form tangled masses.

Origin of Mat

before 900; Middle English, Old English matte Late Latin matta mat of rushes Semitic; compare Hebrew mittāh bed

Examples for Mat

My housekeeper had been there and left the key under the mat for me, so they took the key, made a copy of it, and brought it back.

They can go to the mat for him with donors and insiders and pull every string they can to wire a speakership vote.

Republicans are likely to go to the mat to stall these picks, and Reid has now laid out a red line of his own.

If they were well thought through, with a clear plan of execution, she was in, and ready to go to the mat.

Then the rascal put him naked into the mat, and tied it round tight.

Put him into a mat, and roll him up in it without killing him.

By remarkable contrast, younger musicians who really go to the mat for political controversy can become superstars.

Say, he told me they've got a mat at the door with 'Welcome' on it—in letters three feet high.

The servants put the rascal into the mat, and tied it round tight.

Nor did she dream that he had made a mat of his glory for her to walk upon.