Mat vs. Matte

Matnoun

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

Matnoun

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

Matnoun

(athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.

Matnoun

A thickly tangled mess.

Matnoun

A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

Matnoun

A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.

Matnoun

A thin surface layer; superficial cover.

Matnoun

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

Matnoun

abbreviation of matineeperformance at a theater.

Matnoun

A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.

Matverb

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

Matverb

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

Matnoun

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

Matnoun

A thick flat fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, placed on the floor and used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room to protect its surface, and for other purposes.

Matnoun

Any similar flat object made of fabric or other material, such as rubber or plastic, placed flat on a surface for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.

Matnoun

Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.

Matnoun

An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.

Matadjective

Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.

Matverb

To cover or lay with mats.

Matverb

To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

Matverb

To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat, as hair when wetted with a sticky substance; as, a long-haired cat whose fur is matted.

Matnoun

a thick flat pad used as a floor covering

Matnoun

mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

Matnoun

sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports

Matnoun

a master's degree in teaching

Matnoun

the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

Matnoun

a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it

Matverb

twist together or entwine into a confusing mass;

Matverb

change texture so as to become matted and felt-like;

Matadjective

not reflecting light; not glossy;

Mat

A mat is a piece of fabric material that generally is placed on a floor or other flat surface.

Mattenoun

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

Mattenoun

(cinema) A background, often painted or created with computers

Mattenoun

(pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.

Matteadjective

(American spelling) Dull; not reflective of light.

Mattenoun

A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.

Mattenoun

A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

Matteadjective

Having a dull, lusterless surface finish; opposed to glossy or polished; as, a matte photograph; a proof coin with matte figures on a polished field.

Mattenoun

a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted

Mattenoun

the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

Matteverb

change texture so as to become matted and felt-like;

Matteadjective

not reflecting light; not glossy;