Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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mat | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
flat | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
mat (noun) | flat (noun) |
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a thick flat pad used as a floor covering | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports | scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting |
a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it | a deflated pneumatic tire |
mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture | freight car without permanent sides or roof |
a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete | a shallow box in which seedlings are started |
the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named |
a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven | a level tract of land |
mat (adjective) | flat (adjective) |
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not reflecting light; not glossy | (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone |
lacking contrast or shading between tones | |
not reflecting light; not glossy | |
having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | |
horizontally level | |
commercially inactive | |
lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth | |
having lost effervescence | |
having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness | |
lacking taste or flavor or tang | |
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) | |
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground | |
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | |
not modified or restricted by reservations | |
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting |
mat (verb) | flat (verb) |
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change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | |
twist together or entwine into a confusing mass |
mat (adverb) | flat (adverb) |
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in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly | |
with flat sails |