different between matter vs text

English

Etymology

From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin materia (“matter, stuff, material”), derivative of Latin mater (“mother”). Doublet of Madeira.

Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæt?/, [?mæ??]
  • Homophone: madder
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)
• Hyphenation: mat?ter

Noun

matter (countable and uncountable, plural matters)

1. Substance, material.
   1. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
   2. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.

      Antonym: antimatter

   3. A kind of substance.

   4. Printed material, especially in books or magazines.

   5. (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
2. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil

     if the matter should be tried by duel

   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     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.

3. An approximate amount or extent.
4. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
   • 1611, Ben Jonson, Oberon, the Faery Prince

     He is the matter of virtue.

5. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
6. (dated) Pus.

Synonyms

• material
• stuff
• substance

Derived terms

Related terms

• dark matter

Translations

Verb

matter (third-person singular simple present matters, present participle mattering, simple past and past participle mattered)

1. (intransitive) To be important. [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive, in negative constructions, now England regional, Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important. [from 17th c.]
   • , 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 […]

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 56:

     He matter'd not that, he said; coy maids made the fondest wives […].

3. (intransitive, medicine, archaic) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

   • Each slight sore mattereth.

Derived terms

• it doesn't matter
• no matter (“in spite of”)

Synonyms

• (be important): signify

Translations

French

Verb

matter

1. Alternative spelling of mater

Conjugation

Anagrams

• mettra

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat?/

Adjective

matter

1. comparative degree of matt
2. inflection of matt:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Middle French

Alternative forms

• mater

Verb

matter

1. to checkmate

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

matter m pl or f pl

1. indefinite plural of matte (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

matter f pl

1. indefinite plural of matte (Etymology 1)

English

Etymology

From Middle English text, from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of tex? (“I weave”). Cognate to English texture.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?kst, IPA^(key): /t?kst/
• Rhymes: -?kst
• Hyphenation: text

Noun

text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)

1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
3. (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

   Synonym: text message

4. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.

   Coordinate term: plain text

   Antonym: binary

5. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
6. (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.

   Synonyms: topic, theme

7. (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.

   Synonym: text hand

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (nonstandard) text)

1. (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.

   Synonyms: message, (UK) SMS

2. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.

3. (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Translations

Further reading

• Text in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• text at OneLook Dictionary Search
• text in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• text in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin textus (“text”), from Latin textus, perfect passive participle of tex? (“weave”), attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tekst/

Noun

text m (plural texts or textos)

1. text

Related terms

• textual

References

Further reading

• “text” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “text” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “text” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

text m

1. text

Declension

Derived terms

• otextovat
• podtext
• texta?
• textovat
• textovka
• textový

Further reading

• text in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• text in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (taxt).

Noun

text m

1. throne
2. bed
3. wood, tree

Related terms

• textî
• textîn
• textînî

References

• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologi?eskij slovar? kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 389

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French texte, Latin textus.

Noun

text n (plural texte)

1. text

References

• text in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

text c

1. text

Declension