Mater vs. Matter
-
Mater
From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via late-Middle English matere.
Britain slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous for Mother example ‘the mater has kept on the house in London’
-
Matter
In the classical physics observed in everyday life, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume. This includes atoms and anything made up of these, but not other energy phenomena or waves such as light or sound. More generally, however, in modern physics, matter is not a fundamental concept because a universal definition of it is elusive; for example, the elementary constituents of atoms may be point particles, each having no volume individually.
All the everyday objects that we can bump into, touch or squeeze are ultimately composed of atoms. This ordinary atomic matter is in turn made up of interacting subatomic particles—usually a nucleus of protons and neutrons, and a cloud of orbiting electrons. Typically, science considers these composite particles matter because they have both rest mass and volume. By contrast, massless particles, such as photons, are not considered matter, because they have neither rest mass nor volume. However, not all particles with rest mass have a classical volume, since fundamental particles such as quarks and leptons (sometimes equated with matter) are considered "point particles" with no effective size or volume. Nevertheless, quarks and leptons together make up "ordinary matter", and their interactions contribute to the effective volume of the composite particles that make up ordinary matter.
Matter exists in states (or phases): the classical solid, liquid, and gas; as well as the more exotic plasma, Bose–Einstein condensates, fermionic condensates, and quark–gluon plasma.
For much of the history of the natural sciences people have contemplated the exact nature of matter. The idea that matter was built of discrete building blocks, the so-called particulate theory of matter, was first put forward by the Greek philosophers Leucippus (~490 BC) and Democritus (~470–380 BC).
Matter (noun)
Substance, material.
Matter (noun)
The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
Matter (noun)
Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).
Matter (noun)
A kind of substance.
"vegetable matter"
Matter (noun)
Written material (especially in books or magazines).
"printed matter;"
"He always took some reading matter with him on the plane."
Matter (noun)
A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
"What's the matter?;"
"state matters"
Matter (noun)
An approximate amount or extent.
"I stayed for a matter of months."
Matter (noun)
The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
Matter (noun)
Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
Matter (noun)
Pus.
Matter (verb)
To be important.
"The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich."
"Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter."
Matter (verb)
To care about, to mind; to find important.
Matter (verb)
To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
Mater (noun)
mother
"the mater has kept on the house in London"
Matter (noun)
physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy
"the structure and properties of matter"
Matter (noun)
a particular substance
"faecal matter"
"organic matter"
Matter (noun)
written or printed material
"reading matter"
Matter (noun)
a subject or situation under consideration
"financial matters"
"a great deal of work was done on this matter"
Matter (noun)
something which is to be tried or proved in court; a case.
Matter (noun)
the present state of affairs
"we can do nothing to change matters"
Matter (noun)
the reason for distress or a problem
"what's the matter?"
Matter (noun)
the substance or content of a text as distinct from its style or form.
Matter (noun)
the body of a printed work, as distinct from titles, headings, etc.
Matter (noun)
the particular content of a proposition, as distinct from its form.
Matter (verb)
be important or significant
"it doesn't matter what the guests wear"
"what did it matter to them?"
Matter (verb)
(of a person) be important or influential
"she was trying to get known by the people who matter"
Matter (verb)
(of a wound) secrete or discharge pus.
Mater (noun)
See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.
Matter (noun)
That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment.
Matter (noun)
That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.
Matter (noun)
That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme.
Matter (noun)
That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business.
Matter (noun)
Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; - chiefly in the phrases what matter? no matter, and the like.
Matter (noun)
Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble.
Matter (noun)
Amount; quantity; portion; space; - often indefinite.
Matter (noun)
Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.
Matter (noun)
That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; - opposed to form.
Matter (noun)
Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing.
Matter (verb)
To be of importance; to import; to signify.
Matter (verb)
To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
Matter
To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.
Mater (noun)
informal terms for a mother
Matter (noun)
that which has mass and occupies space;
"an atom is the smallest indivisible unit of matter"
Matter (noun)
a vaguely specified concern;
"several matters to attend to"
"it is none of your affair"
"things are going well"
Matter (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"
Matter (noun)
a problem;
"is anything the matter?"
Matter (noun)
(used with negation) having consequence;
"they were friends and it was no matter who won the games"
Matter (noun)
written works (especially in books or magazines);
"he always took some reading matter with him on the plane"
Matter (verb)
have weight; have import, carry weight;
"It does not matter much"
Matter Illustrations
