English > matter: 7 senses > noun 2, cognition| Meaning | Some situation or event that is thought about. |
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| Example | "it is a matter for the police" |
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| Synonyms | topic, subject, issue |
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| Narrower | area | A subject of study |
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| blind spot | A subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment |
| remit | The topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with |
| res judicata, res adjudicata | A matter already settled in court |
| Broader | content, cognitive content, mental object | The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
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| Spanish | asunto, cuestión, materia, tema |
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| Catalan | assumpte, matèria, qüestió, tema |
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| Verbs | matter | have weight |
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English > matter: 7 senses > noun 3, Tops| Meaning | That which has mass and occupies space. |
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| Example | "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it" |
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| Narrower | antimatter | Matter consisting of elementary particles that are the antiparticles of those making up normal substances |
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| dark matter | (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the universe |
| emanation | Something that is emitted / emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.) |
| fluid | continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container |
| glop | Any gummy shapeless matter |
| residue | Matter that remains after something has been removed |
| sediment, deposit | Matter that has been deposited by some natural process |
| sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze | Any thick, viscous matter |
| solid | Matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure |
| solute | The dissolved matter in a solution |
| substance | The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists |
| substance | A particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties |
| system | (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium |
| vegetable matter | Matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant |
| ylem | (cosmology) the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements |
| Broader | physical entity | An entity that has physical existence |
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| Spanish | materia, sustancia |
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| Catalan | matèria, substància |
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