Weigh vs Matter - What's the difference?
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To determine the weight of an object.
Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
(figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
* Spenser
To consider a subject. (rfex)
To have a certain weight.
To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
(nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
(nautical) To weigh anchor.
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
*1841 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
*:‘Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.’
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
* Cowper
(obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
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)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* Bible, (w) xviii. 22
*
, 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
An approximate amount or extent.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
* (William Congreve) (1670-1729)
(obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
(obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(obsolete) Pus.
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 .
*
*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
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It mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.}}(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
*, 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
To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:Each slight sore mattereth .
In intransitive terms the difference between weigh and matter
is that weigh is to be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance while matter is to be important.In obsolete terms the difference between weigh and matter
is that weigh is to consider as worthy of notice; to regard while matter is pus.As verbs the difference between weigh and matter
is that weigh is to determine the weight of an object while matter is to be important.As a noun matter is
substance, material.weigh
English
Verb
(en verb)- He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- could not weigh of worthiness aright
- I weigh ten and a half stone.
- They only weigh the heavier.
- Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart.
- Your vows to her and me will even weigh .
- This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.
- Towards the evening we wayed , and approaching the shoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but saw not a Salvage.
- Weigh the vessel up.
- I weigh not you.
- all that she so dear did weigh
Derived terms
* weigh down * weigh in/weigh-in * weight * weighty * weigh up * weigh onmatter
English
(wikipedia matter)Noun
- if the matter should be tried by duel
- Son of God, Saviour of men! Thy name / Shall be the copious matter of my song.
- Every great matter' they shall bring unto thee, but every small ' matter they shall judge.
- 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.
- No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.
- Away he goes,a matter of seven miles.
- I have thoughts to tarry a small matter .
- He is the matter of virtue.
- 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.
Synonyms
* material * stuff * substanceDerived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "matter") * a small matter - Somewhat, slightly * as a matter of fact - Actually * as a matter of law * back matter * baryonic matter * baryonic dark matter * degenerate matter * fecal matter * for that matter - In regards to * front matter * gray matter, grey matter * matterless * matter-of-fact * matter of record * mind over matter * mattery * no matter * organic matter * particulate matter * state of matter * strange matter * subject-matter * what's the matter * white matterVerb
(en verb)Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=Despite further attempts by Agbonlahor and Young, however, they could not find the goal to reward their endeavour.
It mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.}}