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Definitions: Matted |
MattedAdjective1. Tangled in a dense mass; "tried to push through the matted undergowth". 2. Not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "matted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: MattedSynonyms: flat (adj), mat (adj), matt (adj), matte (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Crossing | Adjective: crossing; Verb: crossed, matted; Verb: transverse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Matted |
| English words defined with "matted": Bird's-nest, Blood-boltered ♦ Cibotium barometz ♦ Elflock ♦ felt, felt up ♦ genus Phlox ♦ mat, mat up, Matted glass, Moehringia mucosa ♦ rootbound ♦ sandwort, Scythian lamb, shag, Stupeous, Stupose ♦ tomentose, tomentous ♦ woolly, wooly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "matted": FIRST-BREAKER FEEDER ♦ LAP II ♦ MAT-MACHINE OPERATOR, matted hair, molleton ♦ SIGHTING RIB, stem-cleaning-machine feeder, stem-threshing-machine operator ♦ THRESHING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
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Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Business | The most sought-after wedding bands are matted and polished gold. More recently, however, white gold and platinum have become more common. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Matted" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 53.23% of the time. "Matted" is used about 62 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 53.23% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 29.03% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 17.74% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "matted": become matted ♦ get matted ♦ matted glass ♦ matted hair. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "matted": post-matted. | |
| 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 |
matted | 11 |
matted frame | 10 |
framed matted painting | 9 |
matted painting | 9 |
cat fur matted | 9 |
cat hair matted | 8 |
matted picture frame | 5 |
matted print | 5 |
eyes kitten matted | 3 |
calligraphy matted | 3 |
dog hair matted | 3 |
cat fur grooming matted | 3 |
hair matted | 3 |
matted nancy noel | 2 |
framed matted | 2 |
album matted photo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "matted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i papraruar, i lyer me bojë mat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متلبد (clot, tufty), شعر متعقد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сплъстен (clotted), сплетен (braided). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gribestykke (matted couch), filt (felt, matted staple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | klithoop (matted couch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mallasvanuma (matted couch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | emmêlé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mattiert (mat, mate, Matt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκεπασμένοσ με ψάθα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyékénnyel borított. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ingarbugliato (kinky, knotty, tangled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 艶消し (frosted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つやけし (frosted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pohllit (stuck, uncombed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | attedmay matronal (matronly), emaranhado (mazy, medley, tangly). (various references) acoperit cu rogojini, încurcat (daedal, difficult, embarrassed, foul, intricate, involved, perplexed, perplexedly, puzzling, tangled, tortuous, winding), încâlcit (addle, intricate, intricately, perplexed, puzzling, tangled). (various references) матовый (antiglare, dim, frostywhite, mat, matt, opaque), покрытый циновками. (various references) peallagach, peallach (shaggy). (various references) mutan (bleary, dim, dingy, feculent, lacklustre, mat, muddy, roily, thick, troubled, turbid). (various references) mate (checkmate, dull, dullness, dummy, gourd, mat, mate, Matt), espeso (bushy, crass, deep, dense, dirty, heavy, soupy, stiff, thick, thickish, untidy), enmarañado (beetle, complicated, felting, inextricable, involved, messy, rambling, shaggy, tangled, tousled). (various references) gripmälta (matted couch), filta ihop sig (get matted). (various references) keçeleşmiş, hasırlı, hasır kaplı. (various references) цзgьn (dull). (various references) сплутаний (confused, hurly burly, perplexed), матовий (frosted, mat, opaque), задернілий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "matted": mattedly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "matted": formatted, preformatted, reformatted, unmatted. (additional references) | |
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"Matted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Machteld, Martedi, Matadi, Mateev, Matete, matote, matred, matreed, mattel, Matten, matteo, mattew, matthe, mattox, metted, mitted, mpted, Mwatex. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-t-t" | |
-1 letter: mated, matte, tamed. | |
-2 letters: dame, date, made, mate, matt, mead, meat, meta, tame, tate, team, teat. | |
-3 letters: ate, att, dam, eat, eta, mad, mae, mat, med, met, tad, tae, tam, tat, tea, ted, tet. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, am, at, de, ed, em, et, ma, me, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-t-t" | |
+1 letter: mutated. | |
+2 letters: admitted, admitter, imitated, mattedly, mattered, meditate, unmatted. | |
+3 letters: admitters, amputated, attempted, automated, combatted, diatomite, embattled, estimated, formatted, intimated, maturated, meditated, meditates, meditator, militated, misstated, mitigated, motivated, mutilated, outdreamt, smattered, tomcatted, trematode, ultimated. | |
+4 letters: adjustment, admittance, admittedly, attempered, coadmitted, commutated, debatement, department, dermatitis, detachment, detainment, diastemata, diatomites, dimethoate, impetrated, intimidate, maltreated, manumitted, masticated, mastitides, meditating, meditation, meditative, meditators, methylated, micturated, misstarted, mistreated, mithridate, outmatched, outsmarted, readmitted, stalemated, stimulated, terminated, transmuted, trematodes, unadmitted. | |
| 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 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- - - . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a t t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0074 0074 0065 0064 |
| 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)476786867170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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