matter
suomi-englanti sanakirjamatter englannista suomeksi
ongelma, pulma, vaiva, hätä
olla merkitystä, olla tärkeä
aineisto
asia
materia, aine
Substantiivi
Verbi
matter englanniksi
The basic structural component of the universe, usually having mass and volume.
Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
(antonyms)
A kind of substance.
(ux)
Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. ''Matter'' receives (m), and becomes (m).
An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (''especially when preceded by'' the) one that is problematic.
(RQ:Bacon Colours of Good and Evil)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity). Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club ''Ice Age: Continental Drift''
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
An approximate amount or extent.
(RQ:Milton History)
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop) a matter of seven miles.
(RQ:Congreve Way of the World) I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your ''Lingo'' firſt, before I croſs the Seas.
(1); pith; embodiment.
(RQ:Jonson Obero)
- He is the matter of virtue.
(The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
(RQ:Milton Divorce)
(1).
To be important. (defdate)
(RQ:Birmingham Gossamer). My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.(..)I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
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(RQ:Fielding Tom Jone), 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(nb..)
*(RQ:Richardson Clarissa)
(RQ:Sidney Arcadia)
(alternative spelling of)
(comparative of)
(de-adj form of)
to checkmate
(inflection of) (Etymology 1)