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Matter vs. Matters — What's the Difference?

Matter vs. Matters — What's the Difference?

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Matter

In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume. All everyday objects that can be touched are ultimately composed of atoms, which are made up of interacting subatomic particles, and in everyday as well as scientific usage, "matter" generally includes atoms and anything made up of them, and any particles (or combination of particles) that act as if they have both rest mass and volume.

Matters

That which occupies space and has mass; physical substance.

Matter

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

Matters

A type of such substance
Organic matter.

Matter

A subject or situation under consideration
Financial matters
A great deal of work was done on this matter
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Matters

Discharge or waste, such as pus or feces, from a living organism.

Matter

The reason for distress or a problem
What's the matter?

Matters

(Philosophy) In Aristotelian and Scholastic use, that which is in itself undifferentiated and formless and which, as the subject of change and development, receives form and becomes substance.

Matter

The substance or content of a text as distinct from its style or form.

Matters

The substance of thought or expression as opposed to the manner in which it is stated or conveyed.

Matter

Be important or significant
It doesn't matter what the guests wear
What did it matter to them?

Matters

A subject of concern, feeling, or action
Matters of foreign policy.
A personal matter.

Matter

(of a wound) secrete or discharge pus.

Matters

Trouble or difficulty
What's the matter with your car?.

Matter

That which occupies space and has mass; physical substance.

Matters

An approximated quantity, amount, or extent
The construction will last a matter of years.

Matter

A type of such substance
Organic matter.

Matters

Something printed or otherwise set down in writing
Reading matter.

Matter

Discharge or waste, such as pus or feces, from a living organism.

Matters

To be of importance
"Love is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter" (T.S. Eliot).

Matter

(Philosophy) In Aristotelian and Scholastic use, that which is in itself undifferentiated and formless and which, as the subject of change and development, receives form and becomes substance.

Matters

Plural of matter

Matter

The substance of thought or expression as opposed to the manner in which it is stated or conveyed.

Matter

A subject of concern, feeling, or action
Matters of foreign policy.
A personal matter.

Matter

Trouble or difficulty
What's the matter with your car?.

Matter

An approximated quantity, amount, or extent
The construction will last a matter of years.

Matter

Something printed or otherwise set down in writing
Reading matter.

Matter

To be of importance
"Love is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter" (T.S. Eliot).

Matter

(uncountable) Material; substance.

Matter

(physics) The basic structural component of the universe, usually having mass and volume.

Matter

(physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.

Matter

A kind of substance.
Vegetable matter

Matter

Material, especially in books or magazines.
He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.

Matter

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

Matter

An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
Is much the matter with the old plan?
Something is the matter with him.
State matters

Matter

An approximate amount or extent.
I stayed for a matter of months.

Matter

(obsolete) essence; pith; embodiment.

Matter

(obsolete) (The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.

Matter

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

To care about, to mind; to find important.

Matter

To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

Matter

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.
He is the matter of virtue.

Matter

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

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.
Son of God, Savior of men! Thy nameShall be the copious matter of my song.
Every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge.

Matter

That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business.
To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology.
Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice.

Matter

Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; - chiefly in the phrases what matter? no matter, and the like.
A prophet some, and some a poet, cry;No matter which, so neither of them lie.

Matter

Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble.
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.

Matter

Amount; quantity; portion; space; - often indefinite.
Away he goes, . . . a matter of seven miles.
I have thoughts to tarry a small matter.
No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.

Matter

Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.

Matter

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

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.
Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot.

Matter

To be of importance; to import; to signify.
It matters not how they were called.

Matter

To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

Matter

To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.
He did not matter cold nor hunger.

Matter

That which has mass and occupies space;
An atom is the smallest indivisible unit of matter

Matter

A vaguely specified concern;
Several matters to attend to
It is none of your affair
Things are going well

Matter

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

A problem;
Is anything the matter?

Matter

(used with negation) having consequence;
They were friends and it was no matter who won the games

Matter

Written works (especially in books or magazines);
He always took some reading matter with him on the plane

Matter

Have weight; have import, carry weight;
It does not matter much

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