MATTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does matting mean? 

• MATTING (noun)
  The noun MATTING has 2 senses:

1. a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp)

2. mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

  Familiarity information: MATTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("matting" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Derivation:

mat (change texture so as to become matted and felt-like)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mat; matting

Hypernyms ("matting" is a kind of...):

mounting (framework used for support or display)

 Context examples 

She says she is afraid there will be draughts in the passage, though every thing has been done—One door nailed up—Quantities of matting—My dear Jane, indeed you must.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was a candle burning just outside, and on the matting in the gallery.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A piece of matting has been laid here at the side, and we have all stood upon that.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The professor’s corridor is also lined with cocoanut matting.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She advanced along this corridor, leaving no traces upon the cocoanut matting.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was on the point of risking Mr. Rochester's displeasure by disobeying his orders, when the light once more gleamed dimly on the gallery wall, and I heard his unshod feet tread the matting.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She ran down a corridor, which she imagined to be that by which she had come—both were lined with cocoanut matting—and it was only when it was too late that she understood that she had taken the wrong passage, and that her retreat was cut off behind her.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)