Definizione monolingua

matter

matter (third-person singular simple present matters, present participle mattering, simple past and past participle mattered)

1. (intransitive) To be important.

   The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.

   Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, dont worry, it does not matter.

   • 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, BBC Sport:

     Despite further attempts by Agbonlahor and Young, however, they could not find the goal to reward their endeavour.
     It mattered little as Newcastles challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Bartons continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.

2. (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To care about, to mind; to find important.
   • 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 [...]

matter (countable and uncountable; plural matters)

1. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
2. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).
3. A kind of substance.

   vegetable matter

4. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.

   Whats the matter?

   state matters

5. An approximate amount or extent.

   a matter of months; a matter of knowledge.

6. Written material (especially in books or magazines)

   He always took some reading matter with him on the plane

7. (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.

Definizione dizionario matter

	materia
	basic structural component of the universe
	non-antimatter matter
	kind of substance
	neurology: nerve tissue type
	(Fisica) La sostanza che compone tutti gli oggetti che costituiscono una realtà tangibile.
	(physics) is commonly defined as the substance of which physical objects are composed.

	contare
	to be important
	To be important.

	faccenda
	situation

	importare
	to be important
	To be important.

affare

	argomento
	situation

	causa
	cause

	problema
	reason for concern

	questione
	situation

contenuto

cosa

faccenda, affare, cosa

fatto

importanza

massa

materiale

oggetto

premere

pus

significare

soggetto

sostanza

spurgare

stoffa

valere

Altri significati:

Business; concern(s).

(news) copy

(intransitive) To be important.

(physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.

(transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To care about, to mind; to find important.

A kind of substance.

(physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).

A cause.

A situation.

matter (subject)

(neurology) Gray and white matter are the two nerve tissue types that comprise the brain and spinal cord.

A reason for concern; being amiss.

Written material (especially in books or magazines)