Noun

(wikipedia material) (en noun)

(senseid)Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128

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(senseid)Text written for a specific purpose.

(senseid)A sample or specimens for study.

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(senseid)Cloth to be made into a garment.

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Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

(senseid)A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.

(senseid)Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

The substance that something is made or composed of.

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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Stents to Prevent Stroke , passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.}}

Noun

Substance, material.

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

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

# A kind of substance.

# Written material (especially in books or magazines).

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

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

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

if the matter should be tried by duel

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Son of God, Saviour of men! Thy name / Shall be the copious matter of my song.

* Bible, (w) xviii. 22

Every great matter' they shall bring unto thee, but every small ' matter they shall judge.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

An approximate amount or extent.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.

* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)

Away he goes,a matter of seven miles.

* (William Congreve) (1670-1729)

I have thoughts to tarry a small matter .

(obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

He is the matter of virtue.

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

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

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.

(obsolete) Pus.