matter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈmætə/|/ˈmatə/    美 /ˈmætɚ/|[ˈmæɾɚ]|/ˈmætə/|[ˈmæɾə]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Material; substance.; Anything with mass and volume. countable,uncountable
  2. Material; substance.; Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. countable,uncountable
  3. Material; substance.; A kind of substance. countable,uncountable
    — vegetable matter
  4. Material; substance.; Printed material, especially in books or magazines. countable,uncountable
    — He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.
  5. Material; substance.; Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance. countable,uncountable
  6. An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic. countable,uncountable
    — Something is the matter with him.
  7. An approximate amount or extent. countable,uncountable
    — I stayed for a matter of months.
  8. Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue. countable
    — Please find attached an invoice for three outstanding matters.
  9. Essence; pith; embodiment. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — He is the matter of virtue.
  10. (The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 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. Pus. countable,dated,uncountable
  12. Importance. uncountable
    — 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?
动词 v.
  1. To be important. intransitive,stative
    — The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.
  2. To care about, to mind; to find important. Caribbean,England,regional,transitive
    — 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 […]
  3. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. archaic,intransitive
    — Each slight sore mattereth.
    The New Arcadia

词形变化

matters plural matters present,singular,third-person mattering participle,present mattered participle,past mattered past

词汇关系

近义词
material stuff substance hyle
衍生词
a little matter a matter another matter anti-matter as a matter of fact as a matter of factly as a matter of law a small matter back matter back-matter baryonic dark matter baryonic matter biomatter body matter bymatter cold dark matter condensed matter condensed matter physicist condensed matter physics dark matter degenerate matter dry matter end matter fact of the matter fæcal matter faecal matter fecal matter for that matter front matter front-matter gray matter grey matter hot dark matter inscribed matter let the matter drop light matter magmatter matter at hand matterative matterful mattergy matterless matterlike matternet Matter of Britain matter of course matter of fact matter-of-fact matter-of-factish matter-of-factly matter-of-factness matter of law matter of life and death matter of life or death matter of record matter of time matter painting mattersome matterwave mattery mind over matter mirror matter neutron-degenerate matter neutron matter no laughing matter no matter no matter how one slices it no matter that no matter what non-baryonic dark matter nonmatter organic matter overmatter particulate matter phase of matter printed matter programmable matter proto-matter protomatter quark matter shadow matter some little matter some small matter starmatter state of matter strange matter strange quark matter strongly symmetric matter subject-matter subject matter subject matter jurisdiction take matters into one's own hands take the matter into one's own hands thank you for your attention to this matter upon the matter upon the whole matter warm dark matter weakly symmetric matter what is the matter what's the matter white matter all lives matter black lives matter blue lives matter it doesn't matter it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right police lives matter what does it matter white lives matter

词源

词源 1
From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin māteria (“wood”), from māter (“mother”), in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”). Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and mother.
Displaced Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”), from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).
词源 2
From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin māteria (“wood”), from māter (“mother”), in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”). Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and mother.
Displaced Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”), from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).
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