Another word for mat
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Adjective
Lacking gloss and luster
- Lacking distinction, radiance, or vitality; dull:
- Lacking brightness, luster, or vitality; dull.
- Having a smooth, even surface:
- Having a relatively broad level surface in relation to thickness or depth:
- Being in horizontal position; lying down:
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
- Not brisk or rapid; sluggish:
- Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt:
- Lacking in brightness:
- Emitting only a small amount of light; faint:
- Lacking luster; dull or subdued:
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Another word for mat
Noun
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- Fabric or material formed by weaving, knitting, pressing, or felting natural or synthetic fibers.
- A piece of fabric or material used for a specific purpose, as a tablecloth.
- Canvas.
- A construction of poles intertwined with twigs, reeds, or branches, used for walls, fences, and roofs.
- Material used for such construction.
- Any of various Australian trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
- Any of the open spaces in a net or network; an interstice.
- The cords, threads, or wires surrounding these spaces.
- An openwork fabric or structure; a net or network:
- A woven fabric, especially one on a loom or just removed from it.
- The structural part of cloth.
- A latticed or woven structure:
- The act of interweaving or the state of being interwoven.
- Something interwoven.
- A table service for one person.
- An openwork fabric or structure in which cords, threads, or wires cross at regular intervals.
- A system of lines or channels that cross or interconnect:
- A complex, interconnected group or system:
- A protective table mat for a single setting of dishes and flatware.
- A small ornamental mat, usually of lace or linen.
- A small table napkin.
- A mat placed before a doorway for wiping the shoes.
- One who submits meekly to domination or mistreatment by others.
- Something that covers, so as to protect or conceal.
Verb
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- To loosen and let fall (hair or clothing) in disarray.
- To disarrange the hair or clothing of.
- To throw into disorder.
- To cause to become twisted together or caught in a snarl or entwining mass:
- To involve in a complicated situation or in circumstances from which it is difficult to disengage:
- To cause (the quantum states of two or more objects) to become correlated in such a way that they remain correlated, even though the objects are separated spatially.
- To growl viciously while baring the teeth.
- To speak angrily or threateningly.
- To utter with anger or hostility:
- To mix together or intertwine in a confused mass; snarl:
- To catch or ensnare in an intertwined or confused mass:
- To involve in a complicated situation or in circumstances from which it is difficult to disengage:
- To interweave three or more strands, strips, or lengths of in a diagonally overlapping pattern:
- To create (something) by such interweaving:
- To style (the hair) by such interweaving.
- To twine around or together:
- To twine or twist together.
- A fabric of matted, compressed animal fibers, such as wool or fur, sometimes mixed with vegetable or synthetic fibers.
- A material resembling this fabric.
- Something made of this fabric.
- To twist together (threads, for example); intertwine.
- To form by twisting, intertwining, or interlacing:
- To encircle or coil about:
- A braid, especially of hair.
- A pleat.
- To braid.
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