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Mat vs Ruga - What's the difference?

mat | ruga |

As nouns the difference between mat and ruga

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 ruga is a crease or wrinkle.

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)
  • 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) ----

    ruga

    English

    Noun

    (rugae)
  • (anatomy, biology) a crease or wrinkle
  • :* 1997', the deadly water-snakes coil’d together like the '''''Rugæ'' of a single great Brain, the gray and even illumination from the Sky. — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
  • Anagrams

    * ----