| matter | that which has mass and occupies space, physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it |
| secret ballot | a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public |
cryptography
coding
secret writing
steganography | act of writing in code or cipher |
| matter | (used with negation) having consequence, they were friends and it was no matter who won the games |
grey matter
gray matter
grey substance
gray substance
substantia grisea | greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers, forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons |
white matter
substantia alba | whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths |
matter affair
thing | a vaguely specified concern, several matters to attend to, it is none of your affair, things are going well |
mystery
enigma
secret
closed book | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained, how it got out is a mystery, it remains one of nature's secrets |
| matter | a problem, is anything the matter? |
topic
subject issue
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 of fact | a matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact |
plot
secret plan
game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal), they concocted a plot to discredit the governor, I saw through his little game from the start |
conservation of mass
conservation of matter
law of conservation of mass
law of conservation of matter | a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system |
cryptogram
cryptograph secret writing | a piece of writing in code or cipher |
cipher
cypher
cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
| matter | written works (especially in books or magazines), he always took some reading matter with him on the plane |
text
textual matter | the words of something written, there were more than a thousand words of text, they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech, he wants to reconstruct the original text |
| copy written matter | matter to be printed, exclusive of graphical materials |
front matter
prelims | written matter preceding the main text of a book |
back matter
end matter | written matter following the main text of a book |
message
content
subject matter
substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
crux
crux of the matter | the most important point |
| secret arcanum | information known only to a special group, the secret of Cajun cooking |
| secret | something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), the combination to the safe was a secret, he tried to keep his drinking a secret |
| open secret | something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known, their love affair was an open secret |
| trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
connivance secret approval
tacit consent | (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing |
question of fact
matter of fact | a disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide |
question of law
matter of law | a disputed legal contention that is generally left for a judge to decide |
artwork
art
graphics nontextual matter | photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication, the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book |
picture
pictorial matter | illustrations used to decorate or explain a text, the dictionary had many pictures |
tabulation
tabular matter | information set out in tabular form |
foregone conclusion
matter of course | an inevitable ending |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
ASALA
Orly Group
rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
| secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
| secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
Secret Intelligence Service
MI Military Intelligence Section | the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas |
United States Secret Service
US Secret Service
USSS
Secret Service
SS | the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors, detects and apprehends counterfeiters, suppresses forgery of government securities and documents |
secret agent
intelligence officer
intelligence agent
operative | a person secretly employed in espionage for a government |
state of matter
state | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container), the solid state of water is called ice |
| dark matter | (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make uppercent of the universe, it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force |
particulate
particulate matter | a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) |
fecal matter
faecal matter
feces
faeces
BM
stool
ordure
dejection a | solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels |
waste
waste material
waste matter
waste product | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted, they collect the waste once a week, much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers |
| vegetable matter | matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant |
count
matter
weigh | have weight, have import, carry weight, It does not matter much |
matter to
interest | be of importance or consequence, This matters to me! |
unavowed
secret | not openly made known, a secret marriage, a secret bride |
| secret | the next to highest level of official classification for documents |
| top-secret | the highest official level of classification of documents |