matter | that which has mass and occupies space, physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it |
fait accompli accomplished fact | an irreversible accomplishment |
fraud in fact positive fraud | actual deceit, concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another |
verdict finding of fact | (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision, can be used in formulating a judgment |
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 |
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 |
fact | a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred, first you must collect all the facts of the case |
matter of fact | a matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact |
scientific fact | an observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final) |
fact | a concept whose truth can be proved, scientific hypotheses are not facts |
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 |
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 |
fact | a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened, he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts |
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 |
accessory after the fact | a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony |
accessory before the fact | a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration |
accessory during the fact | a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it |
indicative mood indicative declarative mood declarative common mood fact mood | a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact |
fact | an event known to have happened or something known to have existed, your fears have no basis in fact, how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell |
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! |
counterfactual contrary to fact | going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) |
fact-finding investigative investigatory | designed to find information or ascertain facts, a fact-finding committee, investigative reporting |
matter-of-course | expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome |
matter-of-fact pragmatic pragmatical | concerned with practical matters, a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem, a matter-of-fact account of the trip |
matter-of-fact prosaic | not fanciful or imaginative, local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones, a prosaic and unimaginative essay |
for that matter | as far as that is concerned, for that matter I don't care either |
regardless irrespective disregardless no matter disregarding | in spite of everything, without regard to drawbacks, he carried on regardless of the difficulties |
in fact in point of fact as a matter of fact | in reality or actuality, in fact, it was a wonder anyone survived, painters who are in fact anything but unsophisticated, as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father |