Matter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Anything with mass and volume.
2. isim Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
3. isim A kind of substance.

   “vegetable matter”

4. isim Printed material, especially in books or magazines.

   “He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.”

5. isim Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
6. isim An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.

   “Something is the matter with him.”

7. isim An approximate amount or extent.

   “I stayed for a matter of months.”

8. isim 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.”

9. isim Essence; pith; embodiment.

   “He is the matter of virtue.”

10. isim (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.”

11. isim Pus.
12. isim 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?”

13. fiil To be important.

    “The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.”

14. fiil 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 […]”

15. fiil To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

    “Each slight sore mattereth.”

16. özel isim A surname.