Meaning of mat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of medication-assisted treatment.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. A diminutive of the male given name Matthew.
3. A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
4. carpet, rug (covering for a floor)
5. Clipping of material.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, in-plural, slang
6. An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
7. Abbreviation of matinee (“performance at a theater”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, dated, slang
8. Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”).
   alt-of, alternative
9. Clipping of matrix.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
10. Vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.
    uncountable
11. Initialism of Master of Arts in Teaching.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
12. a Malay man
    Singapore, ethnic, slur
13. A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
14. third-person singular present indicative
15. A floor pad to protect athletes.
16. second-person singular imperative
17. A thickly tangled mess.
18. A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
19. A thin surface layer; superficial cover.

Equivalents

Examples

“Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.”

“They put⟳ mats on the table during mealtimes.”

“The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.”

“a mat of weeds”

“But to return⟳ to where we left her, I see⟳ her still, propped up in a kind of stupor against one of the walls in which this wretched edifice abounds, her long grey greasy hair framing in its cowl of scrofulous mats a face⟳ where pallor, languor, hunger, acne, recent dirt, immemorial chagrin and surplus hair seemed to dispute the mastery.”

“Iceland moss growing in a mat”

“The fad for blaming all mass extinctions (such as happened at the end⟳ of the Cretaceous when the dinosaurs vanished) on impacts of objects from space was extended to the Pleistocene in 2007. That year a group of scientists proposed that the North American extinctions were due to a comet or meteorite impact over the Carolinas, near the beginning of the Younger Dryas event, about 12,900 years ago. The original evidence for this supposed impact was a "black mat" of organic material in many Clovis sites, plus microscopic nano-diamonds in deep-sea cores, and rare Platinum group metals in Greenland ice cores from around 12,900 years ago.”

“I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped.”

“Using a Weapon Upgrade Bench, it's possible to upgrade a Common Shotgun, for example, all the way to Legendary provided you've harvested enough mats to do so.”

“While there are game modes where you can build⟳ without any requirements, you'll need⟳ to harvest⟳ materials to build⟳ in normal Fortnite games. Mats is the shortened version of materials.”

“Fortnite added a new trap⟳ with the Armored Wall reinforcement for mats and one viral TikTok showed just how deadly the new item can be in a close⟳ fight⟳.”

“The looper goes on laying more than a thousand mats in thirty seconds. He finally reaches his opponent, who is easily brought down with a shell of a shotgun and a burst⟳ of an SMG. Upon eliminating the opponent, he is ecstatic in celebration.”

“A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".”

“the mat of a daguerreotype”

“Most teenagers go through times when they use⟳ mat "rather heavily" among themselves. I guess⟳ they associate it with being adults. In most cases though this goes away pretty fast, usually when they start⟳ dating girls. Using mat rather heavily after graduating from university is a differnet^([sic]) matter⟳.”

“Don't you people have⟳ anything better to do than collecting mat. I still can't undestand why people in (and from) the ex-USSR like⟳ to swear⟳ so much.”

“As the Russian mentality (hopefully) will be less medieval, mat will lose⟳ its social role. It will be less frequently used in the spoken language. From the other hand, books will lose⟳ its medieval sacrality, and mat will be allowed to be printed.”

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