mat
Speech parts
1. mat - Noun
2. mat - Adjective
3. mat - Verb
4. mat - Adjective Satellite
5. Mat - Proper noun
Meaning
A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
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.
An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
To cover or lay with mats.
To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O' the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O' the Shadows.
When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
The space under the bed is like a mat.
Never give up your own old mat for a better prayer mat which you see passing.
All who live under the sky are woven together like one big mat.