Mat vs. Met — What's the Difference?

A mat is a piece of fabric material that generally is placed on a floor or other flat surface.

Past tense and past participle of meet1.

A flat piece of coarse fabric or other material used for wiping one's shoes or feet, or in various other forms as a floor covering.

To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.

A small flat piece of decorated material placed under a lamp, dish of food, or other object.

(Sports) A floor pad to protect athletes, as in wrestling or gymnastics.

A densely woven or thickly tangled mass

The solid part of a lace design.

A heavy woven net of rope or wire cable placed over a blasting site to keep debris from scattering.

A decorative border placed around a picture to serve as a frame or provide contrast between the picture and the frame.

A dull, often rough finish, as of paint, glass, metal, or paper.

A special tool for producing such a surface or finish.

(Printing) See matrix.

To cover, protect, or decorate with mats or a mat.

To pack or interweave into a thick mass

To be packed or interwoven into a thick mass; become entangled.

To put a mat around (a picture).

To produce a dull finish on.

Variant of matte1.

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

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

(athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.

A thickly tangled mess.

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

A thin surface layer; superficial cover.

(coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.

Abbreviation of matinee

A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.

(transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.

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

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

A thick flat fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, placed on the floor and used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room to protect its surface, and for other purposes.

Any similar flat object made of fabric or other material, such as rubber or plastic, placed flat on a surface for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.

Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.

An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.

Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.

To cover or lay with mats.

To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat, as hair when wetted with a sticky substance; as, a long-haired cat whose fur is matted.

A thick flat pad used as a floor covering

Mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

Sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports

A master's degree in teaching

The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

A small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it

Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass;

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like;

Not reflecting light; not glossy;