mat

[US]/mæt/
[UK]/mæt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a piece of material placed on a floor for people to wipe their feet on before entering a room; a tangled mass or cluster
v. to tangle or twist together into a mass; to cover a surface with something

Phrases & Collocations

Welcome mat

Yoga mat

Door mat

Carpet mat

Exercise mat

Bath mat

Coaster mat

Mouse pad mat

Silicone mat

on the mat

chopped strand mat

glass mat

rubber mat

floor mat

straw mat

mouse mat

place mat

earth mat

Example Sentences

a mat of hair.

This mat is my own work.

This mat has had a lot of wear.

the mater has kept on the house in London.

The country has put out the welcome mat for international investors.

The city put out the welcome mat for the new baseball team.

My foot caught in the mat and I fell heavily.

This mat has to be hammered down at the edges.

The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen.

He and his mates were out picking mangoes.

The governor will go to the mat with the legislature over the controversial spending bill.

his chest was covered by a thick mat of soft fair hair.

He had, from his second mating, a baby girl.

We must glue the mat down at the edges to stop it curling.

Her mates are waiting for her by the gate.

In postzygotic isolating mechanisms mating occur, but the resulting hybrid organism is inviable or sterile.

The mating rituals of the cubera snappers have nothing, though, on squid.

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