Doormat vs Mat - What's the difference?
doormat | mat |
A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
(figuratively) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
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.
Doormat is a derived term of mat.
As nouns the difference between doormat and mat
is that doormat is a coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes 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 verb mat is
to cover, protect or decorate with mats.doormat
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Noun
(wikipedia doormat) (en noun)- Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
- He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
mat
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(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.