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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