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noun

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

  Example: 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.

  Example: They put mats on the table during mealtimes.

• A floor pad to protect athletes.

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

• A thickly tangled mess.

  Example: 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.

  Example: Iceland moss growing in a mat

verb

• To cover, protect or decorate with mats.

• To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

noun

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

noun

• 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.

noun

• A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.

  Example: To make a luck potion, you need several rare herbs as mats.

noun

• A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

  Example: 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

  Example: 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.