Sekirov Dictionary

matter

UK /ˈmætə/US /ˈmætɚ/

noun 13
verb 3
forms 4
phrases 7

noun13

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a situation or subject, especially one that causes worry or trouble
- Something is the matter with him.
- The diplomats met to discuss state matters.
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Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
- Please find attached an invoice for three outstanding matters.
Material; substance.
Anything with mass and volume.
Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
A kind of substance.
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Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.
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An approximate amount or extent.
- I stayed for a matter of months.
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Importance.
- What matter if we unrewarded must strive, / If Wall Street and gamblers around it may thrive? / What matter if we doubly pay for our food / To support the monopolist kings of the road? — 1880
Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
(old-fashioned) Pus.
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(no longer used) Essence; pith; embodiment.
- He is the matter of virtue. — 1611
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(no longer used) (The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
- And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife. — 1643

verb3

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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.
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(Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important.
- 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 […] — 1973
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(no longer used) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
- Each slight sore mattereth. — 1587

forms

mattered · mattering · mattereth · matters

Phrases with matter

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