Mats

//mæts// name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of mat form-of, plural
  2. 2
    plural of Mat form-of, plural

    "There are three Mats in this department."

  3. 3
    plural of MAT form-of, plural
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of mat form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of Military Air Transport Service, a consolidation of the US Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force Transport Command (ATC) that functioned from June 1 1948 to January 1, 1966. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

    "At the controls was Capt. Bill Laughlin, a veteran MATS aircraft commander and his chief pilot in the 41st Air Transport Squadron."

Synonyms

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air forcerafsac

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"These straw mats, called "tatami" in Japanese, are no longer made by hand."

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