Definitions for matte

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Spelling: [mat]

IPA: /mæt/

Matte is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in matte (aemtt).

Definitions for matte

noun

1. a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
2. a tool for producing such a surface.
3. Metallurgy. an unfinished metallic product of the smelting of certain sulfide ores, especially those of copper.
4. Movies. matte shot.
5. a mass of timber caved beneath overburden so as to cushion the fall of the overburden and separate it from mineral to be extracted beneath.

adjective

1. having a dull or lusterless surface:

verb (used with object)

1. to finish with a matte surface.

Origin of matte

1640-50; French mat (masculine), matte (feminine), Old French Late Latin mattus moist, soft, weak, perhaps *maditus, derivative of Latin madēre to be wet

Examples for matte

matte and Maie grew fat on this fine living, and daily became richer.

matte Enamel, medium weight; Enameled, medium weight; Velvet, medium weight.

There was once a fisherman who was called Salmon, and his Christian name was matte.

Then, the merkin is applied with an adhesive; Ledermann uses a matte substance by Telesis.

The shell is a combination of matte and shiny plastics, but it still feels like a solid piece of hardware.

The real Chloë is notorious for wearing beige and houndstooth and orange, matte lipstick, and sarcastic chunk wedges.

The German term in the Glossary for panes ex pyrite is stein, the same as the modern German for matte.

Three products result: (a) slag; (b) matte; (c) copper-gold-silver alloy.

The matte is roasted, re-smelted with lead, and no doubt a button obtained, and further matte.

He, however, describes nothing of matte smelting; in copper refining he gives the whole process of poling, but omits the pole.