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Welcome Mat


Synonym: Welcome Mat

Synonym: doormat (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Welcome Mat

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Screenplays

But honey, we don't have a Welcome mat. (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro)

We should put out the Welcome mat. (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro)

Lyrics

One more set of boots on your welcome mat (I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That; performing artist: Elton John)

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Image Slideshow: Welcome Mat

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Welcome Mat

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The welcome mat.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Welcome Mat

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  welcome mat

119
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Welcome Mat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-m-o-t-w"

-2 letters: ammocete.

-3 letters: welcome.

-4 letters: camlet, cleome, coatee, comate, locate, oleate, omelet, telome.

-5 letters: amole, camel, cameo, celom, cleat, comae, comal, comet, comma, comte, eclat, elate, elect, emmet, emote, lemma, macle, metal, motel, octal, owlet, telae, towel.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Welcome Mat


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 65 6C 63 6F 6D 65      4D 61 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100101 01101100 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#101 &#108 &#99 &#111 &#109 &#101 &#32 &#77 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0065 006C 0063 006F 006D 0065      004D 0061 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

577178698179712476786

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Bibliographic Items: "welcome mat"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "welcome mat"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Welcome Mat