mat
1. a thick flat pad used as a floor covering (Freq. 4)
• Hypernyms:
floor cover, floor covering
• Hyponyms:
doormat, welcome mat
2. mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
matting
• Hypernyms:
mounting
3. sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
gym mat
• Hypernyms:
sports equipment
• Hyponyms:
canvas, canvass, wrestling mat
4. a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven
- a mat of weeds and grass
• Hypernyms:
mass
5. the property of having little or no contrast;
lacking highlights or gloss
• Syn:
flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, matt, matte
• Derivationally related forms:
matte (for: matte), matt (for: matt), lustreless (for: lustrelessness), lusterless (for: lusterlessness), flat (for: flatness)
• Hypernyms:
dullness
6. a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
• Hypernyms:
pad
• Hyponyms:
drip mat, mousepad, mouse mat, place mat
1. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- The child entangled the cord
• Syn:
entangle, tangle, snarl
• Ant:
unsnarl (for: snarl), disentangle (for: entangle)
• Derivationally related forms:
snarl (for: snarl), tangle (for: tangle)
• Hypernyms:
twist, twine, distort
• Hyponyms:
felt, enmesh, mesh, ensnarl
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They mat their hair
2. change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
- The fabric felted up after several washes
• Syn:
felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte
• Derivationally related forms:
matting, felt (for: felt)
• Hypernyms:
change
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
not reflecting light;
not glossy
- flat wall paint
- a photograph with a matte finish
• Syn:
flat, matt, matte, matted
• Similar to:
dull
• Derivationally related forms:
matte (for: matte), matt (for: matt), flatness (for: flat)
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