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Definitions: Matt |
MattAdjective1. Not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish". Noun1. The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Matt" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the four letters", "be", "become". |
Date "matt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | The description of a painted surfacewhich scatters or absorbs the light falling on it, so as to be substantially free from gloss or sheen. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A modification of plain weave in which two or more ends and picks weave as one, or a fabric made in such a weave. The basic hopsack weaves may be modified in various ways, e. g. by introducing additional interlacing to give a firmer cloth(stitched hopsack), or by arranging small square blocks of figures to form diagonal lines in the fabric(twilled hopsack). Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | With a dull surface. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: MattSynonyms: flat (adj), matted (adj), flatness (n), lusterlessness (n), lustrelessness (n), mat (n), matte (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Matt |
| English words defined with "matt": greensward ♦ sod, sward ♦ turf. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "matt": Archelaus ♦ Baptism of Christ, baryta paper, baryta-coated paper ♦ Cleopas, cutinite coal ♦ Dalmanutha, Draught-house ♦ For to see ♦ Jakim ♦ Keys ♦ Mattan, Matthan ♦ No Man is a Hero to his own Valet ♦ Pharisees, Poisson d'Avril ♦ RESTORER, CERAMIC ♦ Sheba, Skopts, Skopti, sporinite coal, sticking mark ♦ Tares ♦ Winefat. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Matt" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (checkmate, cloudy, dead, dim, dull, faint, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lame, languid, languidly, limp, mat, mate, opal, opaque, Pearl, slack, subdued, tired, vapid, wan, wanly, weak, weary), Hungarian (dull, lustreless, mat, matt, matte, unglazed, unvarnished), Norwegian (dim, dull, faint), Swedish (depressed, dim, dull, dusty, faint, faintly, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lacklustre, languid, lustreless, mat, tame, weak, wishy washy). |
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Screenplays | Take 'em to Missouri, Matt! (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase) Matt never argued with Yancy this much, and he's getting divorced. (Grapevine; writing credit: David Frankel) Hey, Matt! I made it! (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) Matt, you wanna come to dinner tonight? (Invasion U.S.A.; writing credit: James Bruner) Nice to meet you, Matt Murdock. (Daredevil; writing credit: Mark Steven Johnson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Matt Lincoln (1970) Educating Matt Waters (1996) Matt Houston (1982) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Crewmembers Lisa Glover,Pat Quinanola, Matt Ofsthus, and Terry Gregg help tie up the RONALD H. BROWN in Male, capital of the Maldive Islands.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Assistant Survey Tech Maureen Goff and Ordinary Seaman Matt Monaghan at work in RA-2.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Senior Airman Matt Butler, an aircraft fuel systems journeyman. |  | Staff Sgts. Vincent Delorenzo and Matt Nugent. |
 | NRCS employees Mitch Cummings and Matt Rosener in the wetlands near Tillamook,Oregon.Credit: Gary Wilson. |  | (L - R) Stacie Davies, Matt Smith, aide to congressman Gregg Walden, and Secretary Babbitt on Steens Mountain.Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. |
 | Interior of a Mississippi River steamer crowded with men, women, and children 'deck passengers,' ... / Matt Morgan.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Veterinary Medicine: Proper methods of horse care] / Design'd by Rich. Lawrence. Engrav'd by Matt. Haughton.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Matt Kilroy.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yellow Jack monster] / Matt Morgan.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Matt Groening | Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Poor Matt, he's gone to Heaven, no doubt -- but he won't like God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Matt" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.94% of the time. "Matt" is used about 1,066 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 82.94% | 884 | 8,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.78% | 179 | 23,133 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.19% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,066 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "matt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Matt | First name Male | 38,000 | 329 |
| Matt | Last name | 1,000 | 9,105 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Matt" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the four letters", "be", "become". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Matt." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Matthew | Male | Biblical | Yahweh |
| Matthias | Male | Biblical | Matthew |
| Mattithyahu | Male | Biblical (Original) | Matthew |
| Matija | Male | Croatian | Matthew |
| Matej | Male | Czech | Matthew |
| Mads | Male | Danish | Matthew |
| Mat | Male | English | Matthew |
| Mathew | Male | English | Matthew |
| Matt | Male | English | Matthew |
| Matthew | Male | English | Yahweh |
| Matthias | Male | English | Matthew |
| Matty | Male | English | Matthew |
| Matias | Male | Finnish | Matthew |
| Matti | Male | Finnish | Matthew |
| Mathieu | Male | French | Matthew |
| Matthias | Male | German | Matthew |
| Matthias | Male | Greek | Matthew |
| Makaio | Male | Hawaiian | Matthew |
| Máté | Male | Hungarian | Matthew |
| Mátyás | Male | Hungarian | Matthew |
| Maitiú | Male | Irish | Matthew |
| Matteo | Male | Italian | Matthew |
| Mattia | Male | Italian | Matthew |
| Mats | Male | Norwegian | Matthew |
| Maciej | Male | Polish | Matthew |
| Mateusz | Male | Polish | Matthew |
| Mateus | Male | Portuguese | Matthew |
| Matheus | Male | Portuguese | Matthew |
| Matvei | Male | Russian | Matthew |
| Matija | Male | Serbian | Matthew |
| Matej | Male | Slovak | Matthew |
| Matej | Male | Slovene | Matthew |
| Matija | Male | Slovene | Matthew |
| Matjaz | Male | Slovene | Matthew |
| Mateo | Male | Spanish | Matthew |
| Mats | Male | Swedish | Matthew |
| Yahweh | Male | Theology | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "matt": matt-black, matt-bodied, matt-finished, matt-finishing, matt-looking. | |
Ending with "matt": semi-matt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
matt leblanc | 2,020 | goss matt | 103 |
matt damon | 1,648 | matt damon picture | 97 |
matt drudge | 1,478 | matt le blanc | 91 |
matt | 357 | matt furey | 84 |
matt kenseth | 316 | matt stone | 70 |
matt dillon | 275 | matt schulze | 67 |
matt hardy | 231 | matt keeslar | 56 |
matt groening | 214 | matt sharp | 56 |
redman matt | 189 | matt morris | 53 |
matt williams | 182 | matt christopher | 53 |
matt lawrence | 175 | matt ryczek | 53 |
matt lauer | 148 | katie matt show today | 52 |
leary matt o | 143 | bonner matt | 50 |
matt drudge report | 136 | digimon doujinshi matt | 49 |
matt cedeno | 124 | matt summer | 49 |
ballinger matt | 119 | cappotelli matt | 49 |
matt hoffman | 115 | matt damon nude | 48 |
matt ramsey | 110 | matt wertz | 47 |
matt skiba | 107 | matt rush | 47 |
matt nathanson | 104 | hale matt | 47 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "matt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Mat (checkmate, mat, measure, mete, size, span, weigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير ناعم, غير أملس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Матов. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 暗淡 (Dusky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mat (dull, dullness, flat), måtte (have to, hopsack twill, must, ought to, should), stump (blunt, dull, dullness, exarticulation stump, obtuse, stump), hopsack-twill (hopsack twill), grumset farvetone (dull, dullness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mat (dim, dull, dullness, flat, frosted, grey, mat, matte, matting, mattress, short finish, straw mat, tired), stompheid (dull, dullness, hebetude), stomp (blunt, dull, dullness, exarticulation stump, obtuse, sponson, stem, stock, stub, stump, thigh, trunk), gematteerd (dull, dullness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | matta (flat), panama (hopsack twill, Panama, Republic of Panama). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Mat (mat, mate, mattress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mattiert (mat, mate, matted), Mattenbildung (hopsack twill), Matte (hopsack twill, mat, matte), matt (checkmate, cloudy, dead, dim, dull, dullness, faint, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lame, languid, languidly, limp, mat, mate, opal, opaque, Pearl, slack, subdued, tired, vapid, wan, wanly, weak, weary), Würfelbund (hopsack twill), trüber Farbton (dull, dullness), stumpf (blunt, bluntly, dull, dulled, dullness, exarticulation stump, flat, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless, masculine, mat, obtuse, pointless, snub, stem, stock, stolid, stolidly, stub, stump, stupid, toneless, truncated, trunk, turned-up), Panama (hopsack twill, Panama, Panama (pa), Panama City, Republic of Panama, The Republic of Panama). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύφανση νάτε (hopsack twill), μάτ (dull, dullness), ματ (checkmate, dull, riot police), θαμπός (dim, dull, dullness, dusty), θαμπό (flat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Lábtörlõ (door mat, mat), Gyékényszõnyeg (mat), Fakó (colorless, colourless, dim, doughy, flat, lack-lustre, livid, lustreless, mat, muddy, pale, pallid, paly, rusty, sallow, washed-out, whitey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Matto (crazy, dull, false, imitation, insane, loco, loony, Loopy, lunatic, mad, madman, madwoman, moonstricken, moony, nut, nuts, nutty, screwy), matt (dull, dullness), mat (dull), Vernice (dye, enamel, enamel varnish, glaze, gloss, lacquer, paint, patent leather, polish, varnish), Opaco (dull, opacity, opaque), armatura natté (hopsack twill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 絹目 (matt finish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きぬめ (matt finish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | attmay mate (dull, dullness, matte), ponto "natte", opaco (dim, dull, dullness, mat, matter, opaque), baço (Brown, dim, dingy, dull, dullness, ill humor, ill humour, lacklustre, lustreless, Milt, spleen, swarthy, tarnished), baça (flat). (various references) Матовый. (various references) mate (checkmate, dull, dullness, dummy, gourd, mat, mate, matted). (various references) matt (depressed, dim, dull, dusty, faint, faintly, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lacklustre, languid, lustreless, mat, tame, weak, wishy washy), panamabindning (hopsack twill). (various references) Mat (checkmate, darkish, dull, lackluster, lacklustre, mat, mate, opaque, sober), Donuk (blear, blurred, clouded, colourless, dead, diaphanous, dim, dull, dullish, frosty, glassy, inanimate, mat, opaque, toneless), Buzlu (frappe, frosted, frosty, ground, iced, icy, mat, on the rocks, with ice). (various references) цзьgsi (dull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "matt": matte, matted, mattedly, matter, mattered, mattering, matters, mattery, mattes, mattin, matting, mattings, mattins, mattock, mattocks, mattoid, mattoids, mattrass, mattrasses, mattress, mattresses, matts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "matt": semimatt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "matt": antimatter, antimatters, formatted, formatter, formatters, formatting, harmattan, harmattans, preformatted, preformatting, reformatted, reformatting, semimatte, smatter, smattered, smatterer, smatterers, smattering, smatterings, smatters, unmatted. (additional references) | |
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"Matt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gmat, katt, macht, mact, maft, magt, matat, mati, matr, matta, matth, Matto, Matu, matz, maut, mawt, mdt, mett, metta, metto, metty, mitti, mmat, Moatti, mpt, mtg, Mwat, Myatt, natt, zatt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "matt" (pronounced ma"t) |
| 3 | m a" t | mat, matte. |
| 2 | -a" t | at, bat, batt, begat, brat, cat, chat, fat, flat, Gat, gnat, hat, Kat, nonfat, Pat, rat, sat, scat, slat, spat, splat, stat, Tat, that, vat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-t-t" | |
-1 letter: att, mat, tam, tat. | |
-2 letters: am, at, ma, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-t-t" | |
+1 letter: matte, matts. | |
+2 letters: matted, matter, mattes, mattin, matzot, metate, mutant, mutate, tamest, tatami, titman, tomato, tomcat. | |
+3 letters: aftmost, atomist, attempt, bathmat, catmint, etatism, imitate, mantlet, martlet, matelot, matters, mattery, matting, mattins, mattock, mattoid, matzoth, metates, mozetta, mulatto, mutants, mutated, mutates, nutmeat, ottoman, smatter, statism, stomata, stomate, stratum, tantrum, tapetum, tatamis, teatime, tomcats, tomenta, topmast, tritoma, trymata. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 74 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- - - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a t t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0074 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678686 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Names: Derived from 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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