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Mat vs Matting - What's the difference?

mat | matting |

As nouns the difference between mat and matting

is that mat is a flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering while matting is mats, a collection of ground coverings.

As verbs the difference between mat and matting

is that mat is to cover, protect or decorate with mats while matting is present participle of lang=en.

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)
  • A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
    • Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.
  • A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
    • They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
  • (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
    • The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat .
  • A thickly tangled mess.
    • a mat''' of hair; a '''mat of weeds
  • A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
    • the mat of a daguerreotype
  • 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 make a luck potion, you need several rare herbs as mats .
    Derived terms
    * crash mat * doormat * mat slab * place mat * welcome mat

    Verb

    (matt)
  • To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
    • (Evelyn)
  • To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
  • * Dryden
    • And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.

    Etymology 2

    Compare (m).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

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

    • Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) ----

    matting

    English

    Noun

  • mats, a collection of ground coverings
  • * 1846, Herman Melville, Typee
    • His departure oppressed me with melancholy, and, re-entering the dwelling, I threw myself almost in despair upon the matting of the floor.
  • coarse fabric, of the kind used to make mats
  • * c. 1771 James Cook, First Voyage Round the World
    • ... the sails are of Matting and are made narrow at the head and Square at the foot,...
    Besides Cloth they [Tahitians] make several different sorts of matting , both better and finer than any we have in Europe; the stuff they make it on is the Produce of the Palm tree.
  • a dull surface, often used for surrounding pictures; matte

    • Verb

    (head)