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Mat vs Yat - What's the difference?

mat | yat |

As nouns the difference between mat and yat

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 yat is a vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use.

As proper nouns the difference between mat and yat

is that mat is a diminutive of the male given name Matthew while Yat is a unique collection of dialects of English spoken in New Orleans, Louisiana.

As a verb mat

is to cover, protect or decorate with mats.

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) ----

    yat

    English

    (wikipedia yat)

    Alternative forms

    * jat

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital'' ), no longer in current use
  • The Late Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) vowel that was represented by this letter, usually transcribed as /?/. This vowel underwent various alterations in the later Slavic dialects and is no longer distinguished (except in Ijekavian).
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