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.
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.
A floor pad to protect athletes.
The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.
A thickly tangled mess.
a mat of hair
A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
Iceland moss growing in a mat
To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
(coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon.
A woman's dress to be worn in the morning or before dinner.
A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
To make a luck potion, you need several rare herbs as mats.
A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).
A background, often painted or created with computers
Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.
(pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.