mat.

1. Matinée
2. Matrix

mat¹ /mat/

1. A piece of fabric or material of any of various types and thicknesses, laid on the ground for any of various purposes, eg covering part of the floor, standing or lying on, wiping one's shoes on at a threshold, absorbing shock on landing or falling in gymnastics, wrestling, etc
2. A rug
3. A smaller piece of cloth, cork or other material for placing under a vase, dish, or other object to prevent damage to the surface it stands on
4. A sack of matting used to cover a chest of tea, coffee, etc
5. A certain weight held by such a sack
6. A closely-interwoven or tangled mass, esp of hair or vegetation, or of brushwood protecting a riverbank
7. A web of rope yarn

1. To cover with mats
2. To interweave
3. To tangle closely

To become tangled in a mass

mattˈed adjective

Tangled

mattˈing noun

1. Mat-making
2. Becoming matted
3. Covering with mats
4. Material used as mats

matˈgrass or matˈweed noun

1. A small, tufted, rushlike moorland grass (Nardus stricta)
2. Marram

on the mat

On the carpet (figurative)

mat² /mat/

(of a surface) dull, lustreless or roughened to eliminate gloss (also matt or matte)

1. A dull uniform finish or surface
2. A border of dull gold or of white or colour round a picture
3. A punch for roughening a surface

1. To produce a dull surface on
2. To frost (glass)

• of price
• of purpose
• OFQUAL
• Ofqual
• of secret
• of set purpose
• of sorts
• OFSTED
• Ofsted
• of St John
• oft
• OFT
• OFTEL
• Oftel
• often
• oftener
• oftenest
• oftenness
• oftennesses
• oftentimes
• of that ilk
• of the essence
• of the first magnitude
• of the first water
• of the nature of