mat

Meaning

Noun

1. A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
2. A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
3. A floor pad to protect athletes.
4. A thickly tangled mess.
5. A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
6. A thin surface layer; superficial cover.

Verb

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

Adj

Alternative form of matte (“not reflecting light”)

Synonyms

matting

matt

rug

matte

carpet

mattress

bed

🛏️

straw mat

tangle

pad

entangle

felt

mount

seat

💺

sleeping mat

doormat

sheet

prayer mat

dull

gym mat

chair

🪑

mat up

matt-up

matte up

snarl

dim

matted

lacklustre

layer

cushion

felt up

lustreless

lustrelessness

flat

flatness

lusterlessness

pallet

clot

tablecloth

pillow

cover

gasket

groundsheet

insert

insertion

interweave

involve

knit

ledger

📒

lining

litter

matador

mate

🧉

material

matinee

mattresses

mess

mess up

mix up

muck up

mud

muffle

muss

panel

puddle

roil

sail

sash

scatter rug

screen

scrub

seating

shake up

shim

skin

slab

soleplate

span

table-cloth

taste

thicket

touch

underlay

underlie

veil

bottom plate

clutter up

dinge

get tangled up

louse up

table mat

tatami

desk pad

woven mat

solepiece

subplate

underplate

be tangled

anything spread

mat for sitting on

floor-cover

matting floor-covering

without lustre

drip mat

pandanus mat

support plate

bar-mat reinforcement

base surface

floor slab

foundation plate

mesh reinforcement

reinforcing fabric

back plane

bearing strip

bottom board

floor plate

main base

plate blank

flat blank

negative matrix

backing strap

bottom plating

goat skin

backing sheet

feeder floor

chassis base

housing shoe

plate sole

strip breakdown

reinforcing mat

mat reinforcement

agitate

pandanus type

also

backboard

backing

bare bones

base plate

bass

bath mat

bay

bedevil

bed plate

bedroll

blank

blanket

brake

cap

cardboard

carpeting

case

circular

cloak

cloth

coaster

confuse

couch

🛋️

coverlet

defray

dishevel

disorganise

disrupt

doily

drugget

embroil

enshroud

floor cloth

floor covering

floor mat

frame

framing

frosted

fruit tree

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mæt/

Etymology

From Middle English matte, from Old English meatte, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)).