Met vs Mat - What's the difference?
met | mat |
(meet)
(obsolete) (mete) (to measure)
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 verbs the difference between met and mat
is that met is past tense of meet while mat is to cover, protect or decorate with mats.As nouns the difference between met and mat
is that met is metabolic Equivalent of Task, or simply metabolic equivalent, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise while mat is a flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.As an abbreviation Met
is the London Underground Metropolitan LineAs a proper noun Mat is
a diminutive of the male given name Matthew.met
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(wikipedia met)Verb
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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.