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# matter

«matter» in Mova's school dictionary: **what everything is made of; all things that take up space…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (matter, matters); verb (matter, matters, mattered, mattering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Matter is what everything is made of; all things that take up space and have mass are matter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#m1)

2) A matter is a subject or problem to deal with: a serious matter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#m2)

3) To matter is to be important: your feelings matter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#m3)

4) «What's the matter?» asks what is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths problems it is a word of the story or of the explanation only; «the order does not matter» means it is adding or multiplying (you can swap the numbers). In science matter comes in solids, liquids and gases. In everyday life: «It doesn't matter» (it is not important), «no matter what», «as a matter of fact».

### examples

- It does not matter which order you add. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x1)
- No matter how you count, there are 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x2)
- What is the matter with the sum? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x3)
- What's the matter? You look sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x4)
- Everything around us is made of matter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x5)
- Solids, liquids and gases are states of matter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x6)
- It doesn't matter if you lose, just have fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x7)
- Every vote matters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x8)
- As a matter of fact, I've already finished. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x9)
- “O Peter, you know it matters.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/#x10)

### note

Science sense is uncountable (matter); the «subject» sense is countable (matters). Regular verb: mattered. «No matter» = whatever, however. Maths: no clue about the quantities. In explanations «the order does not matter» means it is adding or multiplying, not subtracting or dividing.

### In the corpora

- [Staying up too late makes adults tired the next day, and children's sleep matters even more for growing and learning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/17/)
- [If a "We'll see" matters to you, ask calmly what would need to change for it to become a yes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/15/)
- [Being often late can lose someone a job or upset friends, because it says other people's time does not matter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/14/)
- [No tool is perfect, so the two steps still matter, and an accident never changes who you are.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/10/)
- [So play, laugh and enjoy beating the bot at your own riddles, and check anything that matters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «matter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/matter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.