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

1. noun. A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
2. adjective. Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
7. transitive verb. To cover or lay with mats.
8. transitive verb. To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
9. intransitive verb. To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
10. noun. a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
11. noun. sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports
12. noun. a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
13. noun. mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

    Synonyms: matting

14. noun. the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

    Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, matt, matte

15. noun. a master's degree in teaching
16. noun. a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven

    "a mat of weeds and grass"

17. verb. change texture so as to become matted and felt-like

    "The fabric felted up after several washes"

    Synonyms: felt, matte

18. verb. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

    "The child entangled the cord"

    Synonyms: entangle, snarl, tangle

19. adjective. not reflecting light; not glossy

    "flat wall paint"

    "a photograph with a matte finish"

    Synonyms: flat, matt, matte, matted

Synonyms

matting, flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, matt, matte, felt, entangle, snarl, tangle, flat, matted

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mat:

amt, atm, tam

Common word forms

mats, mated, mater, mates, mating, matted, matter, matless, matting

Words from these letters

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