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mat

/mat/US // mæt //UK // (mæt) //

垫子,锍,垫层,垫底

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n.名词 noun
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    • : a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
    • : a smaller piece of material, often ornamental, set under a dish of food, a lamp, vase, etc.
    • : Sports. the padded canvas covering the entire floor of a wrestling ring, for protecting the contestants from injury when thrown.a thick pad placed on the floor for the protection of tumblers and others engaged in gymnastic sports.
    • : a thickly growing or thick and tangled mass, as of hair or weeds.
    • : a sack made of matting, as for coffee or sugar.
    • : a slablike footing of concrete, especially one for an entire building.
    • : a heavy mesh reinforcement for a concrete slab.
v.有主动词 verb
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    mat·ted, mat·ting.

    • : to cover with or as if with mats or matting.
    • : to form into a mat, as by interweaving.
v.无主动词 verb
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    mat·ted, mat·ting.

    • : to become entangled; form tangled masses.

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Examples

  • Tormented by all-day nausea, I sought comfort in bed and on the yoga mat.

  • Each mat goes for a blitzkrieg-like concentration—my model has 7,992 spikes, each one-eighth inch long.

  • With an acupressure mat, you get acupressure, sans precision.

  • The best option to take care of your joints and your floors is a good yoga mat.

  • This coating is actually a mat of nanofibers with a very large surface area, which increases its energy storage capacity.

  • If they were well thought through, with a clear plan of execution, she was in, and ready to go to the mat.

  • Zalwar Khan returns quickly and begins his morning prayers, spreading out a plastic mat and folding his arms over his chest.

  • Besides, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are exactly rolling out the welcome mat for Kerry.

  • It would just throw himself onto a huge, soft mat covered in a bit of sand, and then it would get up right away.

  • By remarkable contrast, younger musicians who really go to the mat for political controversy can become superstars.

  • He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."

  • "Let me get the man something to eat," said Yung Pak as the monk seated himself upon a mat.

  • He went back to his praying mat and bent again toward the west, where the Holy Kaaba enshrines the ruby sent down from heaven.

  • We here saw an opium-eater, lying stretched out upon a mat on the floor.

  • The mat shop is beginning to affect my health: the dust has inflamed my throat, and my eyesight is weakening in the constant dusk.