mat

Meanings

Noun

• A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
• A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
• A floor pad to protect athletes.
• A thickly tangled mess.
• A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
• A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
• An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
• Abbreviation of matinee
• A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
• Alternate spelling of matte

Verb

• To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
• To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

Adjective

• Alternative of matte

Origin

• From Middle English matte, from Old English meatte, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה ("bed, couch")).
• Compare matte.
• A clipped form of matinee.
• A clipped form of material.