Synonyms of the word

mat

• n. A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
• n. A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
• n. (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
• n. A thickly tangled mess.
• n. A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
• n. A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
• n. A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
• v. (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
• v. (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
• n. (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
• n. (dated slang) Abbreviation of matinee (performance at a theater).
• n. (video games, slang) A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

distort

• v. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
• v. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of.
• adj. (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

dullness

• n. The quality of being slow to understand things.
• n. The quality of being uninteresting.
• n. The lack of visual brilliance.
• n. (of an edge) bluntness.

entangle

• v. (transitive) To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
• v. (transitive) To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
• v. (transitive, figuratively), to ensnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle.
• v. (transitive) To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse…

felt

• n. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance…
• n. A hat made of felt.
• n. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
• v. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
• v. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of feel.
• adj. That has been experienced or perceived.

flat

• adj. Having no variations in height.
• adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
• adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or…
• adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
• adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
• adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
• adj. Uninteresting.
• adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the…
• adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
• adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
• adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
• adj. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull.
• adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
• adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
• adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective…
• adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
• adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
• adv. So as to be flat.
• adv. Bluntly.
• adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
• adv. Completely.
• adv. Directly; flatly.
• adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
• n. An area of level ground.
• n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter…
• n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
• n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
• n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
• n. The flat part of something.
• n. A wide, shallow container.
• n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded…
• n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
• n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
• n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
• n. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
• n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
• n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a…
• n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
• n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts…
• v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
• v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
• v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
• v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
• v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
• n. (chiefly Britain, New England, New Zealand and Australia, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on…

flatness

• n. The state of being flat.
• n. The state of being two-dimensional; planar : planarity.
• n. The state of being bland : dullness.
• n. Mattness, the quality of a painted surface which scatters or absorbs the light falling on it, so as to…
• n. (oenology) Lack of bouquet and freshness of a wine, through too much aeration or infection with film yeasts.
• n. (statistics) slim-tailedness or platykurticity.

mass

• n. (physical) Matter, material.
• n. A large quantity; a sum.
• n. (quantity) Large in number.
• v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
• v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
• adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
• adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
• n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
• n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
• n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
• n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

matt

• adj. (British spelling) alternative spelling of matte.
• n. Alternative spelling of mat (an alloy in coppersmithing).

matte

• n. (art, photography) A decorative border around a picture.
• n. (film) A background, often painted or created with computers.
• n. (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and…
• adj. (American) Dull; not reflective of light.

matted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of mat.
• adj. forming a thick tangled mess.
• adj. covered with mats or matting.

matting

• n. mats, a collection of ground coverings.
• n. coarse fabric, of the kind used to make mats.
• n. a dull surface, often used for surrounding pictures; matte.
• v. present participle of mat.

mounting

• adj. that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.
• v. present participle of mount.
• n. Something mounted; an attachment.
• n. The act of one who mounts.

pad

• n. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
• n. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
• n. A soft, or small, cushion.
• n. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
• n. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
• n. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
• n. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
• n. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
• n. A sanitary napkin.
• n. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
• n. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
• n. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing…
• n. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
• n. A keypad.
• n. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
• n. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord".
• n. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
• n. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
• n. (US, slang) A bed.
• n. (colloquial) A place of residence.
• n. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
• n. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
• n. A mousepad.
• n. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
• n. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
• v. (transitive) To stuff.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
• v. (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.
• n. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road…
• n. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
• n. The act of highway robbery.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
• v. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
• v. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
• v. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
• interj. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
• n. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

snarl

• n. A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate…
• n. The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
• n. A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
• n. A slow-moving traffic jam.
• v. To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron…
• v. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
• v. To embarrass; to ensnare.
• v. To growl, like an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
• v. To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.

tangle

• v. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined.
• v. (intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation.
• v. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
• v. (transitive) to mix together or intertwine.
• v. (transitive) to catch and hold.
• n. A tangled twisted mass.
• n. A complicated or confused state or condition.
• n. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
• n. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four…
• n. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
• n. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
• n. (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles…

twine

• n. A twist; a convolution.
• n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
• n. The act of twining or winding round.
• n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
• v. (transitive) To weave together.
• v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
• v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
• v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
• v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
• v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
• v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
• v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.