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Definition of matt in English: matt(US mat) (also matte) adjective mat (of a surface or colour) dull and flat; without a shine. prints are available on matt or glossy paper Example sentencesExamples - The paintings consist of flat planes of Matthews' matte beige, and other parts which allude again to landscape without depicting it.
- You can paint them a dull matt grey to blend in against the sky, but they will stand out.
- It's pretty impressive stuff; on the side of Manchester's old ship canal, a huge shard of silver seems to have fallen from the skies and impaled itself into a mass of matt black.
- The system is available in 19 matt lacquer colours as well as in bleached or dark oak and with a choice of six different glass doors.
- I bought two pairs of the exact same shoe but in different colours: a weird quilted-look silver and matte black.
- The walls should be finished in medium dark shades with a matt surface.
- In the spring and summer, use containers in soft blues; in autumn and winter, a few pots in matt black planted with tiny, scented cyclamen are also charming and easy.
- It is rapidly absorbed by the skin, leaving a light, matt film on the surface which keeps the skin looking, and feeling, soft and hydrated.
- The turbine blades for the West End project would be made of wood epoxy and painted matt black, the polypropylene turbine head would also be painted black and the galvanised steel tower would be dull grey.
- The matt colours sustain the idea of a quiet experience and the abstract form of painting allows for a personal interpretation.
- Each piece is clean and simple, with an undecorated matte surface.
- Surface quality of the mat side at the final gauge was the most important parameter to be controlled.
- The keys are big enough, and of themselves perfectly visible, black on matt silver.
- Its matt surface could be further polished and worked.
- Grunting, I twisted my head and spied a few fallen fragments of scale, each one a dull matt black.
- Presentation is austere: the hardback, which is matt black with silvered lettering, has no dust jacket, no tables, and no illustrations.
- The metal carried a slight, bluish matt tint and was utterly smooth.
- It's easy enough to print out photographs on A4 size paper, of course, and I have achieved very good results using both glossy and matt photographic quality paper.
- The large portraits of farm workers are shot against a white background and printed on a matte surface.
- The play between glossy and matt surfaces lends a subtle complexity to a simple restaurant fitout.
Synonyms dull, lacklustre, flat, unburnished, unpolished, tarnished, dingy, dim, dark, drab
noun mat 1mass noun A matt paint or finish. the varnishes are available in gloss, satin, and matt Example sentencesExamples - The rod is tied in dark red thread over the cane coloured blank, and the overall finish is matt.
- The shutters, window seats and surround are a very dark varnish and maybe should have been matt to give a softer finish.
Synonyms netting, net, network, tracery, reticulation 2A sheet of cardboard placed on the back of a picture, either as a mount or to form a border. try mounting prints against a deep matt or ground of the same background colour Example sentencesExamples - The photographs were printed on 8 x 10 sheets, sepia-toned, and presented with ivory-toned mattes and walnut-stained mahogany frames.
- Using all this as a template, we then cut the top mat and mounted the tickets to it.
- Photo frames are also about style, so this device offers a goldtone frame, a black mat, and an antiglare acrylic cover.
verbmatted, matting, matts mat [with object]Give a matt appearance to (something) its bright fresh surface was soon matted with dust and insects Example sentencesExamples - Why not consult him and simply matte the image to recreate the 1.85: 1 aspect ratio?
- Other teachers may prefer to matte the prints for wall display and place photocopies of the notes beside them for students to read.
- Afterwards, it was matted down with an industrial scrubber and made to look like marble.
- The image is matted with a 16 mm-style frame, just as it was presented in the theatres.
- The footage all has a drab, flat feel and the 1.33: 1 full frame image is badly matted.
- Have a friend photograph them with a decent camera in nice light, and then print them out in a postcard-sized print and matt them so they look really nice.
Synonyms untidy, messy, scruffy, disordered, dishevelled, disarranged, rumpled, windblown, ungroomed, bedraggled, in a mess, messed up, shabby, slovenly, shaggy
Origin Early 17th century (as a verb): from French mat. Rhymes at, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, expat, fat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat nounmatmæt 1A piece of coarse material placed on a floor for people to wipe their feet on. Example sentencesExamples - She was looking at the rubber mat under her feet of the passenger's side seat.
- When he walks into the blackness of the entryway, he turns and wipes his feet onto the floor mat before pulling his shoes off.
- As he came in stamping his muddy feet on the porch mat, she paused in the kitchen to listen.
- She wiped her feet on the welcome mat and stepped into the house.
- I went in, ignoring him, and stopped on the welcome mat where people might wipe their shoes.
- Walking through the doorway Kim carefully wiped her feet on the small mat at the door.
Synonyms rug, runner, carpet, drugget - 1.1 A small rug.
Example sentencesExamples - People who are going to take part are asked to bring a mat or rug.
- When the job is finished, you should not place items such as mats on the floor for several weeks, as they will cause discolouration.
- Some may insist you sleep on mats on hard floors to straighten out the spine, but they are in a minority.
- In Japan, every home is floored with elegant rice mats, called tatami.
- The floor mats have also accumulated their share of dirt and crumbs, the paint job and hubcaps have a few minor road dings, and the dashboard is dusty.
- As you can see behind me, they have people actually sleeping on mats on the floor because they've just had to continue to allow people in.
- She wears a yellow shirt and a blue-and-green sarong, and sits with me on a woven mat on the dirt floor of an empty room.
- There is a mat on the floor, a hammock, and a few boxes and plastic bags filled with clothes.
- Books, a floor mat, a CD player and a few odd bits of furniture complete the very functional interior of her home.
- To allow the practitioner to use his or her body weight, the patient usually lies on mats on the floor during treatment.
- On the more popular routes old carpets and rubber mats eased the ankle-snapping trudge from one ice sheet to the next.
- Up at 4am for the first of five prayers a day, they sleep on thin mats on the floor in unheated dormitories.
- Apart from the larger engine and the automation of the gearchange, extra standard equipment is confined to items such as floor mats and seat back pockets.
- The abbot indicated that I should sit on a straw mat at his feet.
- ‘The children lay on a mat on the floor and not on a bed,’ she explained.
- In traditional homes, floor seating is still very much alive and floor mats make easy cleaning and maintenance.
- Contemporary coverings like mats and rugs can change the whole appearance of our homes.
- She said that she was sleeping on a mat on the floor of her hut - as usual - and the rat crept up and bit her finger.
- Fifteen inch alloy wheels, air conditioning, a CD player and dedicated carpet mats are included.
- She's rewarded with meals of vegetables and rice, and sleeps on a mat on the floor in the back of a flower shop.
Synonyms rug, runner, carpet, drugget - 1.2 A piece of thick or resilient material for lying on or for landing on in gymnastics, wrestling, or similar sports.
Example sentencesExamples - I found a few large gymnast mats leaning up against the white brick wall by a storage closet.
- If you have made your opponent unstable, the force that can rotate him about his feet to the mat is the gravitational pull on him.
- Lie on the floor with your lower back pressed into the mat, feet on the ball, arms at your sides and neck in neutral alignment.
- She returns to the gymnastics mat, growing with every tumble into an Olympic champion.
- It is a well-known fact that I wouldn't even last five minutes on the gymnastics mat.
- The students are getting their shoes and skirts on before sitting on mats placed onto the floor and beginning their warm-ups and stretches.
- Well, we're standing in the middle of a wrestling mat, so you know what's going to happen.
- In her mind, she was just back on the practice mats in the enormous gymnasium.
- As her feet hit the mat, a score of 9.95 flashed across the board.
- He left everything he had on the wrestling mat and football field each and every time he competed.
- It also has an Olympic-size swimming pool and indoor gyms with wrestling and judo mats, fencing strips and a boxing ring.
- Vaulting into mats stacked in the pit, the French gymnasts attempted several difficult vaults.
- My opponent was running around the wrestling mat waving his arms in a celebratory gesture as he assumed the match was his.
- We get floor mats out at this stage and do approximately 40-50 press-ups.
- Then there's the beam that's four inches wide and three feet off the mat.
- I remember afternoons in first grade when the entire class was forced to take thirty-minute naps on blue gymnastic mats.
- Wrestling mats are not cheap and it can cost a small fortune to equip your wrestling room.
- In one corner of the huge basement was a tall fenced off area that held the gymnastics mats in the small space beyond.
- Then I walked downstairs to the basement and did some gymnastics on my mats.
- He sprawled across the landing mat and ended up on his backside.
- 1.3 A piece of coarse material for lying on.
2A small piece of cork, card, or fabric placed on a table or other surface to protect it from the heat or moisture of an object placed on it. Example sentencesExamples - Hot grease can burn through the sealant layer on stone, so a mat around your cooker is a good idea.
- In four years, there was just the one breakthrough: the cork mat.
- He is clearing the cards, the chips, the checkered mat off the table, putting them neatly into a briefcase.
- Place the fabric on the cutting mat, refolding it to align the cut bias edges.
- Games were played across plastic mats resting on cafeteria tables.
- I looked at the living room we were sitting in, noticing that the main color was red and beige and even the eating table had red mats on it.
- Finally, the committee said that food vendors should place a rubber mat under their booths to protect the area from oil and cooking grease.
- The cards and board mats are homemade, but laminated nicely and are quite sturdy.
- The mat on the change table was yellow, the blanket in the crib was green and yellow, and the cushion on the rocking chair was yellow.
3A thick, untidy layer of something hairy or woolly. his chest was covered by a thick mat of soft fair hair Example sentencesExamples - It was placed atop of what looked like a collection of abandoned old clothes in the back of the truck, except for the hands or feet or the mats of hair protruding here and there.
- Herbivores are quite important for the reef as they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals.
- After the clear-cutting, the north slope germinated a thick mat of young Douglas fir and larch.
- The felt is produced by processing a mat of fibers with moisture, heat, and pressure.
- They both had thick mats of curly blonde hair that had a tendency to get thick with dust and dirt, and they were both husky and cleverly ugly.
- Forming in brackish seawater, layer after layer of mats have left behind clusters of small, sedimentary columns.
- It spreads rapidly and can form dense mats of vegetation in still or sluggishly flowing waters; in fact it is a menace to the health of the rivers, canals, and lakes which it invades.
- In the low-oxygen conditions there, thick mats of sulfate-reducing bacteria grew on the carbonate rocks.
- These thick mats of seaweed create underwater jungles that are home to fish, urchins, and other marine life.
- Atop his head was a thick mat of dark red hair that bordered on maroon.
- Over the summers the plateau had formed a thick mat of dead grass.
- I will need some moisture mats - thick layers of hemp fibre matting which sit on top of the waste.
Synonyms mass, tangle, knot, mop, thatch, shock, mane, cluster, mesh
verbmatmæt [with object]1Tangle (something, especially hair) in a thick mass. the fur on its flank was matted with blood Example sentencesExamples - Her sandy hair was matted and tangled, but her eyes shone with crystal clear radiance.
- His short, lavender hair was matted down from sweat and being constantly covered.
- Her hair was completely matted to her face in perspiration.
- His shimmering blonde hair was matted with blood, originating from a point in the back of his head.
- His black hair was matted with grime and clung to his scalp in ungainly tufts.
- He was asleep, but he was resting fitfully - his black hair was matted against his head, and his breath came out in rasping sighs.
- Sweat soaked through her clothes and matted her short red hair.
- Her head thrashed against the ground, her blood matting her hair and mingling with the dirt and blades of grass.
- An enormous hide of tangled and matted hair appeared directly outside his window.
- They wore dark, heavy cloaks and most of them had black matted hair.
- His stringy black hair was matted against his forehead, most likely due to the intense heat and the fact that he had been working all day.
- Her skin felt cooler to my touch, but sweat matted her hair, and a salty-sour scent overlaid her sweeter one.
- Sweat matted his dark hair to his forehead and he swatted at it when it fell into his face but to no avail.
- His hair was matted with sweat and he had a pained expression on his face.
- His hair was matted down completely from the helmet he had been wearing, and with a grunt he pulled free of the jacket he had been wearing.
- Her hair was all matted down and tangled, and I couldn't start to imagine her taking less than an hour to fix it.
- I ran a hand through my tangled, matted black hair self-consciously.
- His black hair was matted down against his tan face, and his brown eyes were red in their whites.
- His hair was matted down with white paint, mostly contained within the ponytail he had put his hair into before they started working.
- By now, the sun is up and angrily drying up your sweat, matting your hair and hardening your uniform.
Synonyms tangle, entangle, knot, ravel, snarl up - 1.1no object Become tangled.
dog hair mats more quickly than human hair Example sentencesExamples - At night, protect your hair with a satin scarf, bonnet or pillowcase, which prevents split ends, tangling and matting, and preserves your hair style.
- This step can prevent your hair from thinning, matting or breaking.
- Daily brushing is almost mandatory to keep the hair from matting up.
- Thin or fine tressed folks may also benefit from a daily sudsing to help prevent hair from flattening or matting.
- You forsook even your comb - the siren's tool; your hair would have matted about you, a living cloak and shield.
Phrases informal Vigorously engage in an argument, especially on behalf of another. we will go to the mat for those who are willing to help us out Example sentencesExamples - To the applause of numerous commentators, he went to the mat repeatedly on behalf of economic elites - eager for such measures as pro-business trade pacts, bailouts overseas and harsh ‘welfare reform’ at home.
- For example, unions would surely go to the mat for repeal of laws sanctioning employers for hiring undocumented workers, and are likely to oppose any kind of temporary guest worker program.
- They really want to make them, and they'll go to the mat to make sure they get made.
- One has to ask why an impoverished, rural, northern California county would be willing to go to the mat on this issue and spend potentially millions of dollars in legal fees.
- Too many people are afraid to call themselves philosophical as opposed to political, as if that predisposed some cowardice, that you're unwilling to go to the mat for your beliefs.
- That's why most of my posts focus on foreign policy and why I'm willing to go to the mat (no pun intended) to defend my views on the subject.
- My boss went to the mat for me on it, but it was clearly a done deal.
- What he is saying is that the voters of no state should be allowed to act on a different view - and that he will go to the mat to block the confirmation of judges who would allow them a say.
- She is not going to the mat for some helpless whistleblower.
- And he says he's going to the mat against political pawns and media jackals.
informal Being reprimanded by someone in authority. Example sentencesExamples - He is unfit for the office he holds and should be called on the mat before Congress for this outrage.
- When you start looking for one you may find yourself, and not the bloke, on the mat.
Origin Old English m(e)att(e), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch mat and German Matte, from late Latin matta, from Phoenician. nounmatmæt short for matrix (sense 3)
adjective, noun, & verbmætmat variant spelling of "matt"
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