Definition of "mat" in English

noun

1. A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.

   • Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.

2. A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.

   • They put mats on the table during mealtimes.

3. (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.

   • The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.

4. A thickly tangled mess.

   • a mat of weeds

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.

   • Iceland moss growing in a mat

verb

1. (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.

2. (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

noun

1. (video games slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of material.

   • I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped.

noun

1. (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.

2. Alternative form of matte (“instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface”).

verb

1. Alternative form of matte (“to produce a dull, lustreless surface on metal”).

noun

1. (dated slang) Abbreviation of matinee (“performance at a theater”).

noun

1. Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”).

   • the mat of a daguerreotype

adjective

1. Alternative form of matte (“not reflecting light”).

noun

1. (printing) Clipping of matrix.

noun

1. Vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.