Matter

Noun

 * 1)  The basic structural component of the universe.  Matter usually has mass and volume.
 * 2) * 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics.  Translated by W. D. Ross.  Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001.
 * Parmenides seems to fasten on that which is one in definition, Melissus on that which is one in matter,
 * 1)  Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).
 * 2) A kind of substance.
 * vegetable matter
 * 1) A reason for concern; being amiss.
 * What's the matter?
 * 1) A situation.
 * a trivial matter
 * 1) A cause.
 * a matter for concern
 * 1) Written material (especially in books or magazines)
 * He always took some reading matter with him on the plane
 * 1)  Gray and white matter are the two nerve tissue types that comprise the brain and spinal cord.

Synonyms

 * material
 * stuff
 * substance

Derived terms

 * a small matter - Somewhat, slightly
 * as a matter of fact - Actually
 * as a matter of law
 * back matter
 * baryonic matter
 * baryonic dark matter
 * degenerate matter
 * fecal matter
 * for that matter - In regards to
 * front matter
 * gray matter, grey matter
 * matterless


 * matter-of-fact
 * matter of record
 * mind over matter
 * mattery
 * no matter
 * organic matter
 * particulate matter
 * state of matter
 * strange matter
 * subject-matter
 * what's the matter
 * white matter

Verb

 * 1)  To be important.
 * The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.
 * Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.
 * 1)  To care about, to mind; to find important.
 * 2) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 47:
 * Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof [...]
 * Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof [...]

Derived terms

 * it doesn't matter
 * no matter - In spite of

Adjectives for Matter
subject; specific; triturated; perfunctory; doleful; heterogeneous; inconsequential; unimportant; spiritual; combustible; urgent; prudential; luminous; worldly; esoteric; indigent; trivial; imminent; spiritual; superficial; heavy; calcareous; internal; fixed; fluid; humid; dry; unctuous; crude; hard; soft; simple; veiny; compound; similar; organical; imponderable; extraneous; controversial; inevitable; critical; unpalatable; speculative; jesting; granular; erupted; exterior; analogous; ample; essential; brute; country;  mineral;   weighty;  ; ertinent; waste; baser; suspended; countless (pi); theoretical; pecuniary; impending; critical; putrid; encrusted; tarry; bare; nitrogenous; stony; regrettable; indolent; protuberant; empty; forgotten; ecclesiastical; inert; testamentary; suspended; mighty; graver; inexhaustible; commonplace; relevant; remote; subtle;  indifferent;  inflammable; financial; earnest; hideous; abstruse; fascinating; temporal; coloring; worthy; woody; perishable; money; unattainable; carbonaceous; artistic; grave; morbid; cognate.

Verbs for Matter
adjust—; aggravate—; brood over—; clinch —; deal with—; debate—; deliberate—; discuss—; dispute—; elucidate—; expedite—; forsake—; go to the root of—; inquire into —; judge—; mince—s; ponder—; press—; report—; shape—; simplify—; smooth—; visualize—; weigh—; —drifts; —engages; —engrosses; —lingers; —pertains to.

Thesaurus
activities, activity, ado, affair, affairs, air, ambition, amount, amount to something, amplitude, annoyance, anxiety, argument, article, aspect, aspiration, atom, atomic particles, atoms, autograph, bag, basis, be featured, be prominent, be somebody, be something, being, besetment, body, bother, brainchild, brute matter, building block, bulk, burden, business, calling, can of worms, carry weight, case, cause, chapter, chemical element, chyle, circumstance, colostrum, commerce, complication, component, composed matter, composition, computer printout, concern, concernment, condition, consequence, consideration, constituent, content, context, copy, core, count, cut ice, cut some ice, datum, dead matter, detail, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, discharge, distillate, distillation, document, doing, draft, earth, edited version, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, elixir, employ, employment, engrossment, enigma, enterprise, entity, episode, essay, essence, essentials, event, evil, extent, fabric, facet, fact, factor, fair copy, fester, festering, fiction, final draft, finished version, fire, first draft, flimsy, focus of attention, focus of interest, force, function, fundamental particle, get top billing, gist, gleet, goal, great ado, grievance, ground, guiding light, guiding star, head, headache, heading, heart, holograph, humor, hyle, hypostasis, ichor, ideal, implication, import, importance, incident, incidental, inconvenience, individual, inspiration, instance, intention, interest, issue, item, job, kernel, labor, lachryma, lactation, letter, leukorrhea, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, live matter, living issue, lodestar, lookout, lucubration, lymph, magnitude, main point, mainspring, manuscript, marrow, mass, material, material world, materiality, matter in hand, mattering, mean, meaning, meaningfulness, measure, measurement, meat, medium, milk, minor detail, minutia, minutiae, molecule, moment, monad, motif, motive, mucor, mucus, natural world, nature, neighborhood, nonfiction, nub, numbers, object, occasion, occupation, occurrence, opus, order, original, paper, parchment, particular, peccant humor, peck of troubles, penscript, phlegm, physical world, piece, piece of writing, pith, play, plenum, poem, point, point at issue, point in question, predicament, principle, printed matter, printout, problem, proceeding, production, purport, purulence, pus, puzzle, quandary, quantity, quantum, question, quintessence, range, rankle, rankling, reading matter, reason, recension, regard, respect, rheum, ripen, rubric, run, running, sake, saliva, sanies, sap, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, sea of troubles, second draft, sense, serous fluid, serum, service, significance, signification, signify, situation, snot, soul, source, spirit, spring, stand out, standing matter, star, strength, stuff, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, substratum, sum, sum and substance, suppurate, suppuration, sweat, tangible, tear, teardrop, tell, text, the four elements, the whites, the written word, theme, thing, to-do, topic, transaction, transcript, transcription, trouble, tune, typescript, ulterior motive, undertaking, unit of being, upset, upshot, urine, version, vicinity, vocation, water, weep, weigh, weight, whole, work, worry, writing

Etymology
From mater, matere from  matere, materie from  materie, matiere from  materia (matter, stuff, material), derivative of Latin mater "mother". Displaced native andweorc, andwork "material, matter" (from  andweorc "matter, substance, material"),  intinga "matter, affair, business".

Pronunciation

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Noun

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 * Arabic: مادة, جسم
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 * Japanese: 物質
 * Korean: 물질 (物質)
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 * Vietnamese: vật chất (物質)
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 事情, 事
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 * Hindi: बात, मामला


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 事, こと
 * Romanian: chestiune, subiect, fond, material
 * Russian: дело
 * Urdu: بات, معاملہ


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 * Romanian: substanță (nervoasă), materie
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 * : materie
 * : matière
 * : 물질 (1, 2)
 * : materia
 * : res (3, 4, 5)


 * : matéria
 * : materia
 * : materie
 * : tvar
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Verb

 * Chinese: 事關, 事关 (shì guān)
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 * Dutch: belangrijk zijn, er toe doen
 * Finnish: merkitä, olla merkitystä, haitata
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 * German: wichtig sein, auszumachen


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 重要である (じゅうようである, jūyō de aru)
 * Korean: 중요하다 (jung-yo-hada)
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Anagrams

 * mettra