The meaning of Mat

noun

The pelt of a bear, especially when used as a rug or wrap.

Usage examples:

A white bearskin rug

noun

A floor covering made from thick woven fabric.

Usage examples:

The house has fitted carpets throughout

verb

Cover with carpet.

Usage examples:

The stairs were carpeted in a lovely shade of red

noun

Thick, woven material for covering floors, or a piece of this material

noun

A group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together.

Usage examples:

Clusters of creamy-white flowers

verb

Form a cluster or clusters.

Usage examples:

The children clustered round her skirts

verb

To form or gather together

Usage examples:

All his grandchildren clustered around him., dense clusters of delicate pink blossoms, this section…

noun

A small mat for a bottle or glass.

Usage examples:

Sophie would make you put your glass on a coaster.

noun

A heavy cotton rug of indian origin.

Usage examples:

We were sitting on dhurries by the pond

noun

A small ornamental mat made of lace or paper with a lace pattern, put on a plate under cakes or other sweet food.

Usage examples:

In the centre would be the three tiered cake stand with doilies on each plate and small sandwiches …

noun

A small piece of paper or cloth with a pattern of little holes in it, used as a decoration on a plate or under a cake

noun

A mat placed in a doorway, on which people can wipe their shoes on entering a building.

Usage examples:

The group is looking at manufacturing doormats and shoe soles out of recycled footwear.

noun

A piece of usually rough material outside a door to a house or apartment where people can clean their shoes before entering

noun

A coarse woven fabric used to make floor coverings.

Usage examples:

They wore flannel shirts over loose-fitting pants fashioned of drugget.

verb

Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.

Usage examples:

Fish attempt to swim through the mesh and become entangled

verb

To trap something within something else from which it is difficult to escape

Usage examples:

A seal became entangled in the fishing net., fig. the movie explores the entangled (= mixed togethe…

noun

A cloth used for washing a floor.

Usage examples:

Mount st joseph school is appealing for old floorcloths - the older and blacker the better - for th…

noun

A rug laid in front of a fireplace to protect the carpet or floor.

Usage examples:

On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more d…

noun

A rug or blanket of sewn animal skins, formerly worn as a garment by african people, now used as a bed or floor covering.

Usage examples:

Blankets almost completely displaced hides or karosses by the end of the nineteenth century and wer…

noun

A flat-woven carpet or rug made in turkey, kurdistan, and neighbouring areas.

Usage examples:

Kilims on varnished floorboards

noun

A fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it.

Usage examples:

Tie a knot at the end of the cord

verb

Fasten with a knot.

Usage examples:

The scarves were knotted loosely around their throats

noun

A small, relatively short-billed sandpiper, with a reddish-brown or blackish breast in the breeding season.

Usage examples:

You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, usi…

noun

A growth of long hair on the neck of a horse, lion, or other mammal.

Usage examples:

The horse was rushing about in the field, tossing its mane

noun

The long, thick hair that grows along the top of a horse’s neck or around the face and neck of a male lion

noun

A large body of matter with no definite shape.

Usage examples:

The sun broke out from behind a mass of clouds

adjective

Involving or affecting large numbers of people or things.

Usage examples:

The film has mass appeal

verb

Assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass.

Usage examples:

Both countries began massing troops in the region

noun

Material made of a network of wire or thread.

Usage examples:

Mesh for fishing nets

verb

(of the teeth of a gearwheel) be engaged with another gearwheel.

Usage examples:

One gear meshes with the input gear

noun

A material loosely woven of wire, plastic, or thread so that it has spaces in it like a net

Usage examples:

Pour the liquid through a strainer of fine mesh., [ i ] the teeth of the smaller and larger gears m…

noun

An implement consisting of a bundle of thick loose strings or a sponge attached to a handle, used for wiping floors or other surfaces.

Usage examples:

One way of removing built up floor wax manually, is to mix detergent and ammonia with water and app…

verb

Clean or soak up liquid from (something) by wiping.

Usage examples:

She mopped the floor and cleaned out two cupboards

noun

An autumn fair or gathering at which farmhands and servants were hired.

Usage examples:

Combine these closures with the mop fair in the autumn and businesses are beginning to lose margins…

noun

(in south asia and the middle east) an embroidered rug or carpet made of felt or coarse woollen cloth.

Usage examples:

The numdahs of kashmir - is a poor man's carpet - has jute for base with very closely done ari work.

verb

Untangle or unravel something.

Usage examples:

Davy had finished ravelling out his herring net

noun

A tangle, cluster, or knot.

Usage examples:

A ravel of knitting

verb

To separate a knot, mass of threads, etc. into a single thread or threads

Usage examples:

It took daisy a long time to ravel out all the wool., mark's interference merely ravelled things fu…

noun

A floor covering of thick woven material or animal skin, typically not extending over the entire floor.

Usage examples:

An oriental rug

noun

A shaped piece of thick cloth for covering part of a floor

Usage examples:

The rug we bought for the living-room has a beautiful red and gold pattern.

noun

A piece of thick heavy cloth smaller than a carpet, used for covering the floor or for decoration

Usage examples:

My dog loves lying on the rug in front of the fire.

noun

A person that runs, especially in a specified way.

Usage examples:

Mary was a fast runner

noun

A long, narrow blade designed to slide over ice easily, fixed to the bottom of skates (= a type of boot) or snow vehicles

noun

A sheep's skin with the wool on, especially when made into a garment or rug.

Usage examples:

A sheepskin coat

noun

The skin of a sheep with the wool still on it

Usage examples:

We have a rug made from (a) sheepskin., a sheepskin coat

noun

A sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience.

Usage examples:

It was a shock to face such hostile attitudes

verb

Short for shock absorber.

verb

Arrange (sheaves of grain) in a shock.

Usage examples:

The grain is shocked in the field after it is cut

noun

A rug or carpet made in the neighbourhood of shemakha in azerbaijan, distinguished by a flat, napless surface and loose threads at the back.

Usage examples:

Much like the popular kilim rugs, the soumak is crafted in the flat woven style.

verb

Twist together into a confused mass.

Usage examples:

The broom somehow got tangled up in my long skirt

noun

A confused mass of something twisted together.

Usage examples:

A tangle of golden hair

noun

Any of a number of brown seaweeds, especially oarweed.

Usage examples:

An entirely natural extract, it is based on seaweed or tangle, widely available around scotland's s…

noun

A roof covering of straw, reeds, palm leaves, or a similar material.

Usage examples:

The rain drummed noisily on the thatch above her head

verb

Cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material.

Usage examples:

They have constructed the walls and are now thatching the roof

verb

To make a roof for a building with straw or reeds

Usage examples:

In the daylight it is apparent that his trademark white-blond thatch of hair is starting to look a …