Mat or Rug - What's the difference?
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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.
A partial covering for a floor.
(UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
* 1855 , , A Boy?s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert?s Note-Book ,
* 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia ,
* 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia , Volume 22,
* 1997 , Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes ,
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
* Holinshed
A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
(slang) A wig; a hairpiece.
(Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
Rug is a synonym of mat.
As nouns the difference between mat and rug
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 rug is a partial covering for a floor.As verbs the difference between mat and rug
is that mat is to cover, protect or decorate with mats while rug is to pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.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.
Etymology 2
Compare (m).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) ----rug
English
Noun
(en noun)page 254,
- They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
page 2297,
- Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug', and, in winter time, not less than one additional ' rug .
page 181,
- My own son had a bunny rug' of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny ' rug to suck his finger with.?
page 22,
- He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
- They spin the choicest rug' in Ireland. A friend of mine repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford ' rugs .
Usage notes
* (partial floor covering) The terms rug'' and carpet are not precise synonyms: a ''rug'' covers part of the floor; a ''carpet'' covers most or a large area of the floor; a ''fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.Synonyms
* (small carpet) carpet, mat * (wig) toupee, wigDerived terms
* area rug * cut a rug * scatter rug * snug as a bug in a rugVerb
(rugg)- (Sir Walter Scott)