Word Meanings - MAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MAT)

• Entangle
• Knot
• mat
• entrap
• ensnare
• ravel
• implicate
• involve
• perplex
• embarrass
• inveigle
• compromise
• Tangle
• Intertwist
• interlock
• snarl
• complicate
• insnare

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MAT)

• Aggravate
• excite
• foster
• perpetuate
• exempt
• enfranchise
• disengage
• extricate
• exonerate

Related words: (words related to MAT)

• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• SNARL
  To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
• PERPETUATE
  To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• ENTRAP
  To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• INTERLOCK
  To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• EXEMPTIBLE
  That may be exempted.
• ENTANGLE
  1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. 2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence,
• INVEIGLE
  To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton. (more info)
• RAVELER
  One who ravels.
• EXTRICATE
  extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf. 1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• COMPROMISER
  One who compromises.
• TANGLEFISH
  The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• PERPLEXLY
  Perplexedly. Milton.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• UNIMPLICATE
  Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• INSNARL
  To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.
• ENSNARL
  To entangle. Spenser.