What's the difference between mad and mat?

Mad


Definition:

  • (n.) A slattern.
  • (n.) The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.
  • () p. p. of Made.
  • (superl.) Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
  • (superl.) Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.
  • (superl.) Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
  • (superl.) Extravagant; immoderate.
  • (superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
  • (superl.) Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
  • (superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
  • (v. t.) To make mad or furious; to madden.
  • (v. i.) To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
  • (n.) An earthworm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
  • (2) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
  • (3) "This will be not only be a postcode lottery, but a States vs Europe lottery and that would be madness."
  • (4) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (6) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
  • (7) If you’re against the RFS, you’re going to make Iowans mad, you’re going to [have] some Iowans question you but the beauty of Iowa is you can take your case to the people,” said Kaufmann.
  • (8) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
  • (9) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
  • (10) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
  • (11) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
  • (12) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (13) Maleic acid dimethylester (MAD) was investigated in acute and subacute dermal toxicity studies, for sensitization potential, and for in vivo and in vitro genotoxicity.
  • (14) Or maybe it's the other way round - the constant touring is a manifestation of their madness.
  • (15) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
  • (16) He still thinks Labour was mad to get him of all people to work inside the system.
  • (17) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
  • (18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
  • (19) It would be hard to allow working from home if I thought that they were all watching box sets of Mad Men.
  • (20) People thought she'd gone mad, but in retrospect it's clear that this was precisely what she needed in order to move forward.

Mat


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
  • (a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
  • (n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
  • (n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
  • (n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.
  • (n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
  • (v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
  • (v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
  • (v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
  • (2) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
  • (4) Immature mosquito populations were reduced by mats of Azolla microphylla covering more than 80% of the water surface.
  • (5) Except for the posterior end, the rest of the sperm is covered by longitudinally distributed electron-dense cellular processes and an outer mat of more electron-lucent tubular elements.
  • (6) The Km for L-methionine for enzyme from resting peripheral blood mononuclear cells was 19-23 microM, which is 3-8-fold higher than purified MAT from fresh leukemic cells or enzyme from Jurkat cells, both of which have a Km of 3.5-3.8 microM.
  • (7) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
  • (8) Hold the left side of the nori with both hands and flip over on the mat, so that the rice is facing down.
  • (9) Staggerer cerebellar cortex exhibits the greatest fluorescence with most terminals appearing as matted tangles adjacent cell bodies.
  • (10) Sialic acid analysis demonstrated that, whereas MAT-C1 ASGP-1 contained approximately equal amounts of N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGl), MAT-B1 ASGP-1 was devoid of NeuGl.
  • (11) The mean IgM response was short lived whereas the IgG antibody response and the MAT persisted for much longer.
  • (12) The number of methylation sites in alpha Bgt has been shown to decrease significantly upon binding of the toxin to the AcChR [Soler, G., Farach, M. C., Farach, H. A., Mattingly, J. R., & Martinez-Carrion, M. (1983) Arch.
  • (13) The alpha 2 protein, the product of the MAT alpha 2 gene, is a regulator of cell type in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • (14) Using tonal stimuli based on the nonspeech stimuli of Mattingly et al., we found that subjects, with appropriate practice, could classify nonspeech chirp, short bleat, and bleat continua with boundaries equivalent to the syllable place continuum of Mattingly et al.
  • (15) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
  • (16) Jurkat MAT was determined to be structurally indistinguishable from enzyme from T- or B-leukemia cells but was different from resting, normal T-cells in that it lacked the lambda form.
  • (17) Res-O-Mat T4 was chosen as CPBA, and RIAMAT-T4(St) and T4-RIAKIT(Sp) were chosen as RIAs.
  • (18) Since both CG and MAT suffer some fundamental limitations, it is recommended that whenever problems arise, one should compare absorption rates by nonparametric system analysis methods (e.g., deconvolution) if possible.
  • (19) First, the fragment was inserted into a 53-base-pair MAT alpha deletion that expresses alpha 1 and alpha 2 constitutively.
  • (20) Monkeys treated with HAT daily for 14 days exhibited anti-HAT antibody titers which were 5- to 10-fold lower than their MAT-treated counterparts and these antibodies developed later than in the MAT-treated monkeys.

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