Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with or made from mats.
- adjective Tangled in a dense mass.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dull; lusterless; covered with a mat glaze: as, matted steel; matted glass; matted pottery.
- Covered with mats or matting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with a mat or mats.
- adjective Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together.
- adjective Having a dull surface; lusterless; unburnished; same as
matte . - adjective glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mat . - adjective forming a thick tangled mess
- adjective covered with
mats ormatting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not reflecting light; not glossy
- adjective tangled in a dense mass
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Examples
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When it was originally released, Season 2 was (annoyingly) presented in matted widescreen instead of anamorphic widescreen, so that it will display on a widescreen TV with black bars on all four sides.
Justice League: The Complete Series » DVDs Worth Watching 2009
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They were covered in short, matted hair and had long tails curling behind them.
Elric At The End of Time Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1984
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If they had not been, they would have become entangled and thus formed what is called a matted row.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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Others, descending from on high, take root as soon as their extremity touches the ground, and appear like shrouds and stays supporting the mainmast of a line-of-battle ship; while others, sending out parallel, oblique, horizontal and perpendicular shoots in all directions, put you in mind of what travellers call a matted forest.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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The nasty fact of the matted is the simple truth that the uber right is at least half-a-century past the point where they can run on their ideas.
One Thousand Reasons 2008
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Her hair appears to be maybe a little bit damp, kind of matted, stuck to the skin.
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Her hair appears to be maybe a little bit damp, kind of matted, stuck to the skin.
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Her hair appears to be maybe a little bit damp, kind of matted, stuck to the skin.
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Your hair looks like it's a little more put together than that kind of matted thing she's got going on.
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