Dat vs Mat - What's the difference?
dat | mat |
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 thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
(gaming) A material or component needed for a crafting recipe
To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
* Dryden
(coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
As nouns the difference between dat and mat
is that dat is Digital Audio Tape — a digital data storage tape format using a dual-spooled cartridge and magnetic tape, used for digital audio and data storage while mat is a flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.As a determiner dat
is that.As a conjunction dat
is that.As a pronoun dat
is that.As an adverb dat
is that.As a verb mat is
to cover, protect or decorate with mats.As a proper noun Mat is
a diminutive of the male given name Matthew.mat
English
(wikipedia mat)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from ).Noun
(en noun)- Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.
- They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
- The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat .
- a mat''' of hair; a '''mat of weeds
- the mat of a daguerreotype
- To make a luck potion, you need several rare herbs as mats .
Derived terms
* crash mat * doormat * mat slab * place mat * welcome matVerb
(matt)- (Evelyn)
- And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.