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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mat \Mat\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Matted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Matting}.]
1. To cover or lay with mats. --Evelyn.
2. To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Matted \Mat"ted\, adjective [See {Matte}.] Having a dull surface; lusterless; unburnished; same as {matte}; as, matted gold leaf or gilding.
{Matted glass}, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Matted \Mat"ted\, adjective [See 3d {Mat}.]
1. Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.
2. Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
entangled \entangled\ adjective
1. in a confused mass. Contrasted with {untangled}. [Narrower terms: {afoul(postnominal), foul, fouled}; {knotted, snarled, snarly}; {matted}; {rootbound}; {intertwined}]
Syn: tangled. [WordNet 1.5]
2. deeply involved especially in something problematic; as, entangled in the conflict.
Syn: embroiled. [WordNet 1.5]
3. constrained by or as if by a convoluted rope or net; ensnared. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mat
adjective: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: {flat}, {matt}, {matte}, {matted}]
noun
1: a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
2: mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture [syn: {matting}]
3: sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports [syn: {gym mat}]
4: a master's degree in teaching [syn: {Master of Arts in Teaching}]
5: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss [syn: {flatness}, {lusterlessness}, {lustrelessness}, {matt}, {matte}]
6: a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
verb
1: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: {entangle}, {tangle}, {snarl}] [ant: {disentangle}, {disentangle}]
2: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: {felt}, {felt up}, {mat up}, {matt-up}, {matte up}, {matte}] [also: {matting}, {matted}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
matted
adjective
1: tangled in a dense mass; "tried to push through the matted undergowth"
2: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: {flat}, {mat}, {matt}, {matte}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
matted See {mat}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "matted": Byzantine, balled up, bristly, bushy, cirrose, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, daedal, devious, disheveled, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, fleecy, flocculent, fouled up, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, implicated, intricate, involuted, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lanate, loused up, many-faceted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, mussed up, perplexed, pilose, pubescent, ramified, roundabout, ruffled, rumpled, screwed up, shagged, shaggy, snaggy, snarled, subtle, tangled, tangly, tousled, tously, tumbled, twisted, uncombed, unshorn, woolly
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