Word Finder - mats

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A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.

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Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.

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A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.

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They put mats on the table during mealtimes.

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A floor pad to protect athletes.

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The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.

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A thickly tangled mess.

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a mat of hair

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A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.

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A thin surface layer; superficial cover.

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Iceland moss growing in a mat

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To cover, protect or decorate with mats.

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To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

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A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.

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To make a luck potion, you need several rare herbs as mats.

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A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon.

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A woman's dress to be worn in the morning or before dinner.

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A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

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The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).

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• mat
• matting
• passe-partout

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A background, often painted or created with computers

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Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.

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(pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.

The chunky blocks of the stone walls were decorated with art done by children, and colorful mats covered the floor.

The stony plains which cover so large a part of the country are often covered with acacia jungle, and in the dry water-courses a kind of wild palm, the dom, abounds, from the leaves of which baskets and mats are woven.

Only a few are now imported, which are used for mats.

On the island of Niihau is a fine grass (Cyperus laevigatus), out of which the beautiful Niihau mats were formerly made; it is used in making Panama hats.

The mats may be of one colour only, or they may be made of different colours and in different designs.

Even at the time when they were first known to Europeans, they had stone and lava hatchets, shark's-tooth knives, hardwood spades, kapa cloth or paper, mats, fans, fish-hooks and nets, woven baskets, &c., and they had introduced a rough sort of irrigation of the inland country with long canals from highlands to plains.

The initial expenses for frames, lights, cloches, mats and water-supply are in many cases prohibitive to men with the necessary gardening experience, while on the other hand those who have the capital lack the practical knowledge so essential to success.

Cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce plants that are in frames should be regularly ventilated by lifting the sash on warm days, and on the approach of very cold weather they should be covered with straw mats or shutters.

The most common plant here is the stiff sand-reed (Arundo arenaria), called sand-oats in Drente and Overysel, where it is much used for making mats.

Deer, Chinese and East Indian.-Small, light, pelted skins, the majority of which are used for mats.

Reindeer and other varieties are of little interest for use other than trophy mats.

Only a few are now imported from South America for carriage aprons or mats.

Among these people the fibre has always been an article of considerable importance, yielding cloaks, mats, cordage, fishing-lines, &c., its valuable properties having attracted the attention of traders even before colonists settled in the islands.

The most common of the fruits are dates, of which there are nearly thirty varieties, which are sold half-ripe, ripe, dried, and pressed in their fresh moist state in mats or skins.

In 1890 the operatives in the jute and hemp industry numbered 39,885, and in 1901 they were (including workers in canvas, sacking, sailcloth, rope, twine, mats, cocoa fibre) 46,550.

They also made various kinds of mats, baskets and fans from the leaves of the pandanus, the bark of the hibiscus, from species of bohmeria or other Urticaceous plants.

Some of their mats are very beautifully made, and in some islands they are the most valuable property the people possess.

Mats, rugs and carpets are made principally of split bamboo; chairs and beds of balinag and other woods and of rattan.

They consist chiefly in the manufacture of sea-salt, of varied and admirable paper, thin and poor silk, horse-hair crinoline for hats, fine split bamboo blinds, hats and mats, coarse pottery, hemp cloth for mourners, brass bowls and grass-cloth.

In the United Kingdom, under the name of "coir" matting, a large amount of a coarse kind of carpet is made from coco-nut fibre; and the same material, as well as strips of cane, Manila hemp, various grasses and rushes, is largely employed in various forms for making door mats.

Sometimes the names of institutions are introduced into the mats.

Perforated and otherwise prepared rubber, as well as wire-woven material, are also largely utilized for door and floor mats.

A variety of manufactures are carried on, including the making of leather goods, carved wooden vessels, finely plaited mats, embroidered work, shoes of yellow and red leather and pottery of various kinds.

Weaving is an industry less important than formerly; mats and baskets are manufactured, and deep-sea fishing is an important industry.

Bast mats are now made chiefly in Russia, the bark being cut in long strips, when the liber is easily separable from the corky superficial layer.

It is then plaited into mats about 2 yds.

Here and there the floors were formed of tiles or alabaster blocks, but in general they were of stamped clay, on which were spread at the time of occupancy mats and rugs.

The men of Tabaco are largely engaged in the cultivation of hemp; the women in weaving cloth, baskets and mats.

From the bark of another plant they manufacture mats.

The inhabitants of Milis manufacture reed baskets and mats, which they sell throughout Sardinia.

In the simple arts of broiling and roasting meat, the use of hides and furs for covering, the plaiting of mats and baskets, the devices of hunting, trapping and fishing, the pleasure taken in personal ornament, the touches of artistic decoration on objects of daily use, the savage differs in degree but not in kind from the civilized man.

The chief native industries are leather-work, embroidery and filigree metal-work; and the weaving of straw mats and baskets is extensively practised.

Cattlerearing and butter and cheese making are consequently the chief occupations, while on the coast many of the people are engaged in making mats and besoms. The river system of the province is determined by two main ridges of hills.

Linen, leather, canvas, cordage, mats, tallow, potash and beer are manufactured.

There is a lively trade with St Petersburg, and the sea-borne exports, which consist chiefly of timber, flax, linseed, oats, flour, pitch, tar, skins and mats, amount in value to about 12 millions sterling annually (822% for timber), but the imports (mostly fish) are worth only about £ 200,000.

The bazaars are miserable structures, covered with mats laid on rafters of date trees.

The furniture consists of earthen bowls, drinking-cups, wooden neck-rests, spoons, &c., artistically carved, mats, plaited baskets and boxes.

They are skilful cultivators and good boat-builders, the carpenters, being an hereditary caste; there are also tribes of fishermen and sailors; their mats, baskets, nets, cordage and other fabrics are substantial and tasteful; their pottery, made, like many of the above articles, by women, is far superior to any other in the South Seas; but many native manufactures have been supplanted by European goods.

The privilege might, of course, be abused by needy or unscrupulous chiefs, though they generally deferred somewhat to public opinion; it has now, with similar customary exactions of cloth, mats, salt, pottery, &c. been reduced within definite limits.

Their houses, of which the framework is timber and the rest lattice and thatch, are ingeniously constructed, with great taste in ornamentation, and are well furnished with mats, mosquito-curtains, baskets, fans, nets and cooking and other utensils.

They also make from straw and papyrus peel strong and beautiful mats and baskets in great variety, some of much fineness and delicacy, and also hats resembling those of Panama.

Palm-fibre mats and hats, fans, bamboo baskets and cotton fish-nets are woven here.

Made from 100% coconut fiber with anti-slip rubber backing, Shoe Max mats are destined to become design classics... .

A full range of accessories includes rotary cutters and mats, cotton batting, templates, hoops, patterns and buttons.

Where rabbits have nibbled the turf short there are mats of wild thyme and delicate purple harebell.

A seep hose laid along the mats or sand bed takes most of the work out of watering.

Canvas covered mats are sometimes used but are considered less hygienic.

All guests have free access to float mats, ocean kayaks, snorkeling gear, life vests, and boards.

Use rubber mats and provide shoes with thick rubber soles for operators who have to stand operating vibrating machinery.

Sea mats are a class of mostly marine animals found around the whole of the British Isles.