Mat

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, of hair etc.
 * 5) A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
 * 6) A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.

Derived terms

 * doormat
 * mat slab
 * place mat
 * welcome mat

Verb

 * 1)  To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
 * 2)  To form a thick, tangled mess.

Thesaurus
achromatic, achromic, agora, air mattress, amphitheater, anemic, arena, ashen, ashy, athletic field, auditorium, background, barrier, bear garden, bedding, bled white, blind, bloodless, bolster, bowl, boxing ring, braid, brattice, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bull ring, bumper, cadaverous, campus, canvas, carpet, carpeting, chloranemic, circus, cloison, cockpit, coliseum, collision mat, colorless, colosseum, course, crop, cushion, dead, deaden, deadened, deadly pale, deathly pale, diaphragm, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dissepiment, dividing line, dividing wall, division, doormat, drab, drop cloth, duckboards, dull, enlace, entwine, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, fender, field, flat, fleece, floor, floorboards, flooring, forum, ghastly, gray, ground, ground cloth, ground-sheet, gym, gymnasium, haggard, hall, head, head of hair, hippodrome, hueless, hypochromic, innerspring mattress, interknit, interlace, interseptum, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, knit, lace, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, lists, locale, locks, loom, loop, lurid, lusterless, mane, marketplace, mattress, mealy, midriff, midsection, milieu, mop, muddy, muted, net, neutral, noose, open forum, pad, palaestra, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallet, pallid, panel, parade ground, paries, partition, party wall, pasty, pave, pavement, pillow, pit, place, plait, platform, pleach, precinct, prize ring, property line, public square, purlieu, raddle, range, ring, rug, sallow, scene, scene of action, scenery, separation, septulum, septum, setting, shag, shock, shock pad, sickly, site, sleeping bag, somber, sphere, splice, springs, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, tallow-faced, terrain, thatch, theater, tiling, tilting ground, tiltyard, tissue, tone down, toneless, tresses, twill, twine, twist, uncolored, underbed, underbedding, walk, wall, wan, washed-out, wattle, waxen, weak, weave, web, welcome mat, whey-faced, white, wreathe, wrestling ring

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/m{t/}}

Etymology
meatte, from matta:, from  (compare  miṭṭāh: 'bed, couch').

Noun

 * Dutch:, deurmat
 * German:
 * Hungarian: lábtörlő
 * Icelandic: motta
 * Italian:


 * Russian:
 * Spanish: alfombrilla, felpudo
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:, onderlegger,
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Spanish: salvamanteles, posavasos (coaster)
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:, turnmat
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * Russian:
 * Spanish: colchoneta
 * Swedish:


 * Hungarian: csomó


 * Esperanto - mato

Anagrams

 * AMT, atm, ATM, tam, TAM, TMA

Noun

 * 1) shore
 * 2) river bank

Etymology
From, from pre-Albanian *mn̥to, from ‘mountain’ (compare Welsh mynydd:, Latin mons:, Avestan undefined:).

Adjective

 * 1) good

Etymology
From (compare  maith:).

Noun

 * 1) checkmate

Etymology
Paneuropean word, from Persian origin shāh māt (“the king is dead”).

Derived terms

 * šachmat
 * šach-mat
 * dát mat
 * matovat
 * matový

Noun

 * 1) rug, mat

Derived terms

 * deurmat
 * turnmat

Related terms

 * placemat

Noun

 * 1) checkmate

Related terms

 * schaakmat

Adjective

 * 1) matte, not reflecting light
 * 2) dull, uninteresting

Etymology 1
From matte, borrowed from  matta:, which is borrowed from Phoenician. Cognates include English mat: and German Matte:.

Etymology 2
From mat (“checkmate”), borrowed from  mat:, borrowed from  شاه مات:. Cognate to English checkmate:.

Etymology 3
From mat, borrowed from  mat:, from  mattus:. See also French mat: (adjective).

Etymology 4
See Dutch meten:.

Anagrams

 * tam

Adjective

 * 1) matt
 * 2) pale

Adjective

 * 1) checkmated

Noun

 * 1) checkmate

Etymology 1
Probably from mattus:, whence Italian matto:.

Etymology 2
Abbreviation of the French expression  et mat, from شاه مات:.

Anagrams

 * AMT

Preposition

 * 1) with

Noun
mat


 * 1) food

Etymology
From matr:. Cognates include: Danish mad:, Swedish mat:, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃:, Old English mete: (English meat:).

Noun

 * 1) checkmate

Noun

 * 1) boy

Etymology
From maritus:.

Noun
(genitive matu, plural maty)


 * 1) The final move in a chess game, the checkmate.

Etymology
From, from شاه مات:.

Derived terms

 * matový -á -é

Related terms

 * šach-mat

Noun

 * 1) food

Etymology
From matr:.

Related terms

 * andmat
 * kvällsmat
 * mata
 * mataffär
 * matbord
 * matbröd
 * matdags
 * matgäst
 * matig
 * matrast
 * matsal
 * matvrak
 * middagsmat
 * snabbmat