matter
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(noun) (used with negation) having consequence; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games" |
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Related Words: consequence, import, moment |
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(noun) a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" |
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Synonyms: affair, thing |
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Related Words: concern |
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(noun) a problem; "is anything the matter?" |
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Related Words: problem, trouble |
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(noun) written material (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane" |
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Synonyms: material |
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Related Words: addendum, back matter, end matter, front matter, postscript, prelims, supplement, text, textual matter, typescript, writing, written material |
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(noun) that which has mass and occupies space; "an atom is the smallest indivisible unit of matter" |
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Synonyms: substance |
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Related Words: activator, adulterant, allergen, atom, ballast, bedding, bedding material, body substance, carcinogen, chemical compound, chemical element, chemical irritant, combustible, combustible material, compound, culture medium, denaturant, deposit, drift, element, emanation, essence, ferment, fluid, food, fuel, goo, gook, grinding, group, guck, gunk, inhibitor, leaven, leavening, ligand, litter, living substance, material, medium, metabolite, mixture, molecule, muck, nutrient, object, ooze, philosopher's stone, physical object, poison, precipitant, protoplasm, radical, refrigerant, residue, sediment, slime, sludge, solid, solute, solvate, stuff, substrate, system, volatile |
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(verb) have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much" |
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Synonyms: count, weigh |
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Related Words: be, press, weigh |
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(noun) some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" |
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Synonyms: issue, subject, topic |
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Related Words: area, cognitive content, content, mental object, res adjudicata, res judicata |
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