Dictionary Entry
mat
mat is a 3-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
- 2adjective
Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
- 7transitive verb
To cover or lay with mats.
- 8transitive verb
To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
- 9intransitive verb
To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
- 10noun
a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- 11noun
sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports
- 12noun
a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
- 13noun
mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
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- 14noun
the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
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- 15noun
a master's degree in teaching
- 16noun
a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven
"a mat of weeds and grass"
- 17verb
change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
"The fabric felted up after several washes"
- 18verb
twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
"The child entangled the cord"
- 19adjective
not reflecting light; not glossy
"flat wall paint"
"a photograph with a matte finish"
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