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MATTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tangled in a dense mass
Example:
tried to push through the matted undergrowth
Classified under:
Similar:
tangled (in a confused mass)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not reflecting light; not glossy
Example:
a photograph with a matte finish
Synonyms:
flat; mat; matt; matte; matted
Classified under:
Similar:
dull (emitting or reflecting very little light)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb mat
Context examples:
The servant led us down a matted passage and showed us at the end into a great library, all lined with bookcases and busts upon the top of them, where the squire and Dr. Livesey sat, pipe in hand, on either side of a bright fire.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Traversing the long and matted gallery, I descended the slippery steps of oak; then I gained the hall: I halted there a minute; I looked at some pictures on the walls (one, I remember, represented a grim man in a cuirass, and one a lady with powdered hair and a pearl necklace), at a bronze lamp pendent from the ceiling, at a great clock whose case was of oak curiously carved, and ebon black with time and rubbing.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The height of the trees and the thickness of the boles exceeded anything which I in my town-bred life could have imagined, shooting upwards in magnificent columns until, at an enormous distance above our heads, we could dimly discern the spot where they threw out their side-branches into Gothic upward curves which coalesced to form one great matted roof of verdure, through which only an occasional golden ray of sunshine shot downwards to trace a thin dazzling line of light amidst the majestic obscurity.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In some places, across the chest and shoulders and down the outside of the arms and thighs, it was matted into almost a thick fur.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
