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mat

noun as in covering

verb as in plait

verb as in make interwoven mass

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It was at the end of the narrow, low-ceilinged hallway and had a rag-rug welcome mat woven from the same fabrics as Mrs. Clarke’s trademark floral print dresses.

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In doing this, it gained access to dense mats of nutritious organic material while also beginning the development of the bilateral body arrangement that defines most animals today.

He ended up a featherweight on the mat.

Players stand on a dance platform or mat and hit coloured arrows with their feet, to score points in time with visual cues and the music from a catalogue of songs.

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Sarah, who is lying down just a few mats away from me, started coming to this class about a year ago.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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