What's the difference between mat and wigwam?

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.

Wigwam


Definition:

  • (n.) An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From there I camped along New Zealand's coast, starting at Cape Reinga, went on to sleep out on beaches in Fiji and Tahiti, bedded down on ledges in America's national parks, slept by the fireside, Bedouin-style, in Wadi Rum and under a lavvu – a traditional Sami tent, a bit like a wigwam – in Finland in -40C.
  • (2) It seems an unlikely address for the chairman of the Savage Club and a staunch dinner and smoking companion at the Whitefriars, the WigWam and Royal Thames Yacht Club.
  • (3) Doubles from £64 B&B (two-night minimum in high season); two-night activity package £135pp including B&B, half-day boat trip and choice of kayaking, archery or cycling The Croft Bunkhouse, Bothies and Wigwams, Portnalong The Croft You've a choice of bunkhouse, bothy or wigwam on this 12-acre croft on the wild west coast.
  • (4) Depending on your budget – and how adventurous you're feeling – you can choose to pitch your own tent, or bed down in a stylish yurt, a wooden bungalow, a wigwam or – the newest addition to the fold – a converted Bedford truck.
  • (5) The three heated wooden wigwams are the glamping option, built from sustainable sitka or Norway spruce grown in Scotland, and bedded into the treeless landscape.
  • (6) The Queen of Hoxton, Curtain Road, is a good vantage point: its permanent rooftop wigwam goes through a seasonal facelift twice a year.
  • (7) Either way, he’s off soon to a brace of directorships, a glacial Scandinavian box set, and a heaving cheeseboard of the bassist from Blur’s Peripatetic Wigwam.
  • (8) • Doubles from $119, +1 928 289 4366, laposada.org 5 The Wigwam Motel, San Bernardino, California Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Wigwam is the epitome of kitsch.

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