Mattress

Definition: Mattress

Mattress

Noun

1. A large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed.

Date "mattress" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Etymology: Mattress \Mat"tress\, noun. [Old French expression materas, French matelas, Late Latin expression matratium; compage to the Spanish expression Portuguese almadraque, Pr. almatrac; all from Ar. ma[.t]rah place where anything is thrown, what is thrown under something, from [.t]araha to throw.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: Mattress

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	A layer of lean concrete usually 3 to 4 in. thick, put down on soil such as clay to seal it and provide a clean bed for reinforcement to be laid on. Source: European Union. (references)
	A blanket of brush, poles, plastic, fibres or other material lashed together to protect the embankment or river channel from erosion. Source: European Union. (references)
	A flexible layer of brushwood fascines often several hundred feet long, weighted with stones or concrete blocks, towed into position and sunk into a river or sea bed to prevent scour. Source: European Union. (references)
	Gully correction consisting of filling with brush. Source: European Union. (references)
Dream Interpretation	To dream of a mattress, denotes that new duties and responsibilities will shortly be assumed. To sleep on a new mattress, signifies contentment with present surroundings. To dream of a mattress factory, denotes that you will be connected in business with thrifty partners and will soon amass wealth. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Industry	In building fibreboard manufacture, the defibrated(i. e. pulped)woody material as formed before pressing. Source: European Union. (references)
Language	Treillis métallique que l'on met sous les chenilles d'un véhicule pour les empêcher de tourner sur place. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Support	Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	One mattress. One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) I wanted to be more than a hole in the mattress that answers to a name (The Road to Wellville; writing credit: Alan Parker) If you buy a mattress from Janice's ex-husband, isn't that like betraying Chandler (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Well stay away from her, or I'll stuff a mattress with you (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley)
Lyrics	Glitter on the mattress (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S) Master of the mattress, flip and fall backwards (Feels Good; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) Slide up around the belly, Face down on the mattress, One, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind)
Movie/TV Titles	Hamilton Mattress (2001)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Mattress Supports and Articles of Bedding or Similar Furnishings Such As Mattresses, Quilts, Eiderdowns, Cushions, Pouffes, and Pillows with Springs, Stuffed or Internally Fitted with Any Material, or of Cellular Rubber or Plastics: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Installations, Mattress Factory, 1990-1999 (reference) Mattress Factory: Installation and Performance, 1982-1989 (reference) Mattress Manufacturing (Except Rubber) in Australia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Once Upon a Mattress (reference) The mattress actress (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Alone in a Furniture Warehouse Scaring You Away Like a Hotel Mattress (reference) Once Upon A Mattress (1959 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Fitted Waterproof Mattress Pad (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Hooper's Invalid Bed-Lift and Elastic Water Mattress. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[A German Red Cross Hospital bed and mattress, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Continuous mattress suture. / [Herbert L. Treusch]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Mattress sutures closed. / [Herbert L. Treusch]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	At Boston, Massachusetts, 18 January 1919. Panoramic photograph, taken by Crosby. Note mattress splinter shielding hung around her bridge. Credit: NAVY.		View looking aft from her foremast crow's nest, while she was escorting a World War I Atlantic convoy, 1918. Note: "dazzle" camouflage, davits, motor whaleboat, motor launch and gig, triple torpedo tubes, mattress splinter protection around her after conning station, and life rafts. Credit: NAVY.
	The Crocker Co. Mattress Factory. Credit: Library of Congress.		Wife of small cane farmer near Jarreau, Louisiana, making mattress of moss. Credit: Library of Congress.
	White migrant carrying mattress across fence near Harlingen, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.		Airing a mattress in mountain family's backyard up Burton's Fork of the Kentucky River. Breathitt County, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Author Unknown	The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.
Leonardo da Vinci	Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	I want to hear your speech, said the mattress. "This is what I said
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The mattress slid down between the two poles and fell into the street
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He jumped up on the truck and tossed a mattress down
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Parents should make sure their baby sleeps on a firm mattress or other firm surface. (references)
		If you are not sleeping in an area that is well screened or air-conditioned, use a bed net and tuck it under your mattress. (references)
		Until more information becomes available, a standard firm infant mattress with no more than a thin covering, such as a sheet or rubberized pad, between the infant and mattress is advised. (references)
Business		The survey identified persons aged 16 to 29 as the most important target group for manufacturers of bed linen and bed products as they tend to spend in general more time in bed, usually have a stereo or TV in the bedroom, and enjoy eating breakfast in bed. However, most people in this age group do no have summer duvets, bedspreads, or mattress covers. (references)
Human Rights	Colombia	In the country's other prisons, inmates pay to eat, drink, sleep on a mattress, wash clothes, or make telephone calls, and also pay protection fees to fellow inmates or to corrupt prison guards. (references)
	Malaysia	Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi announced in April 2000 that the Government had spent over $250,000 (1 million RM) during the year to provide every prisoner with a mattress, although this had not been confirmed by independent monitors by year's end. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient. This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view, So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins. On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all, Misfortune attend and disaster befall! May life be to them a succession of hurts; May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts; May aches and diseases encamp in their bones, Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones; May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest, And tapeworms securely their bowels digest; May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors -- The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores! Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin! Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin, Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in. K.Q.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.93%	462	12,719
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.64%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.43%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	467	N/A

Expressions using "mattress": air mattress ♦ fascine mattress ♦ horsehair mattress ♦ inflatable mattress ♦ innerspring mattress ♦ mattress cover ♦ mattress pad ♦ rubber mattress ♦ soft mattress ♦ spring interior mattress ♦ spring mattress ♦ straw mattress ♦ wire mattress ♦ wool mattress. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "mattress": mattress-like.
	Ending with "mattress": air-mattress, water-mattress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
mattress	8,501	latex mattress	255
air mattress	1,300	crib mattress	242
mattress discounters	1,018	denver mattress	233
futon mattress	724	cheap mattress	232
simmons mattress	715	kingsdown mattress	216
sealy mattress	650	mattress review	216
discount mattress	597	bed mattress	203
foam mattress	583	mattress king	195
mattress giant	497	queen mattress	194
mattress pad	438	mattress store	190
serta mattress	433	mattress cover	175
water bed mattress	374	mattress factory	174
memory foam mattress	369	mattress rating	167
mattress warehouse	316	mattress sale	166
mattress size	296	englander mattress	163
mattress firm	290	original mattress factory	158
spring air mattress	288	1 800 mattress	152
twin mattress	283	best mattress	143
tempurpedic mattress	280	select comfort mattress	142
tempur pedic mattress	265	foam mattress pad	138
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "mattress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dyshek (bed). (various references)

Arabic		‏فراش (bed, lie), ‏مرتبة ناعمة ودافئة, ‏مرتبة تحتمل الماء, ‏مرتبة (degree, grade, rank, standing, status), ‏حشية (bed, bolster, pad). (various references)

Bulgarian		матрак, дюшек. (various references)

Catalan		matal� s. (various references)

Chamorro		kotchon. (various references)

Chinese		褥 , 床垫, 床墊 . (various references)

Czech		matrace, žínìnka (horsehair mattress). (various references)

Danish		madras (madras). (various references)

Dutch		matras. (various references)

Esperanto		matraco. (various references)

Faeroese		madrassa. (various references)

Farsi		لاءی (Wad), تشک (Pad, Panel). (various references)

Finnish		massa-arkki, suojapatja, patja (cushion, pad), levyaihio, kuituraina (fibrous web). (various references)

French		matelas. (various references)

Frisian		matras. (various references)

German		Matratze (brush gully plug). (various references)

Greek		στρώμα (coat, layer, litter, sheet, stratum, stroma). (various references)

Hebrew		מזרן, מזרון, מצע (bed, cot, couch), יציע (balcony, circle, gallery, porch). (various references)

Hungarian		matrac (overlay, pallet), ágybetét. (various references)

Icelandic		dýna. (various references)

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	culcita, sisurna. (various references)
Arabic	500-Modern	al-matrah. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mattress": mattresses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mattress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: battress, Maitres, martress, Matarrese, mateysys, matresss, matris, matrist, matrss, matteress, matterless, mattless, mattris, meatres, mitress, Nattress. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mattress" (pronounced ma"trus)
4	-t r u s	actress, ambidextrous, buttress, citrus, dextrous, disastrous, estrous, estrus, fortress, headmistress, huntress, idolatrous, lustrous, mistress, monstrous, nitrous, seamstress, temptress, waitress.
3	-r u s	ambassadress, arris, Brontosaurus, chorus, Cirrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, embarrass, ferrous, fibrous, hantavirus, heiress, hubris, hydrous, Iris, ludicrous, Madras, maquiladoras, Morris, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, porous, puris, retrovirus, sorus, stegosaurus, terrace, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus, virus, walrus, wondrous.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: smartest, smatters.
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-r-s-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: masters, matters, smatter, starets, staters, streams, tasters.
	-2 letters: armets, assert, asters, marses, masers, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, ramets, smarts, smears, stares, starts, stater, states, steams, stream, tamers, tamest, tasset, taster, tastes, taters, tetras, treats.
	-3 letters: armet, arses, asset, aster, easts, mares, marse, marts, maser, masse, masts, mater, mates, matte, matts, meats, mesas.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-r-s-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: maltsters, mistreats, teamsters, teratisms.
	+2 letters: assortment, estimators, mattrasses, mattresses, metatarsus, misstarted, postmaster, smatterers, staterooms, stratagems, streamiest, streamlets, taskmaster, transmutes.
	+3 letters: arrestments, assortments, easternmost, magistrates, martensites, masturbates, menstruates, metatarsals, microstates, monetarists, postmasters, reestimates, retransmits, scoutmaster, smatterings, streetlamps, suprematist, taskmasters, tastemakers, thermostats, toastmaster, traumatises.
	+4 letters: astrometries, autoerotisms, demonstrates, dermatitises, harvesttimes, marquisettes, masterstroke, materialists, mistranslate, remonstrants, remonstrates, restatements, restimulates, scattergrams, scoutmasters, semiabstract, startlements, steamfitters, stigmasterol, superstratum, suprematists, systematizer, taskmistress, tautomerisms, taxidermists, toastmasters, transmitters, transvestism, truckmasters.
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Mattress

Definition: Mattress

Mattress

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Specialty Definition: Mattress

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Author Unknown

Leonardo da Vinci

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Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

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