matter

matter /'mætǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [C] (က) ကိစ္စ။ အကြောင်းအရာ။ အခြေအနေ။ get to the heart/core/crux/root of the matter ❍ the matter in hand/under discussion ❍ a matter I know little about ❍ money matters ❍ I don't discuss private matters with my colleagues. ❍ I refuse to let the matter rest (ie not take it further). ❍ We have several important matters to deal with at our next meeting. ❍ Starting a business is no easy matter. ❍ I won't let you do it—and that's the end of the matter (ie I refuse to discuss it any further). ❍ (ironic ) There's the small matter of the money you owe me. (ခ) ~ of sth (to sb) ကိစ္စ။ ပြဿနာ။ matters of growing public concern ❍ This is a matter of considerable interest to me.
၂။ the matter [sing] ~ (with sb/sth) အကြောင်း။ ကိစ္စ။ ပြဿနာ။ What's the matter (with you)? Why are you crying? ❍ I asked her if anything was the matter. ❍ There's nothing the matter with it.
၃။ [U] (က) ဒြပ်။ inert matter ❍ study the properties of matter ❍ The universe is composed of matter. (ခ) အရာဝတ္ထု။ ပစ္စည်း။ decaying vegetable matter ❍ waste matter (eg from the human body) ❍ reading matter (ie books, newspapers, etc) ❍ printed matter (ie forms, documents, etc).
၄။ [U] (fml ) ကိစ္စ။ အကြောင်းအရာ။ interesting subject matter.
၅။ [U] အရာ။ faecal matter ❍ an infected wound full of matter.
v ~ (to sb) အရေးကြီးသည်။ အရေးပါသည်။ ကိစ္စရှိသည်။ What does it matter (whether he comes or not)? ❍ Some things matter more than others. ❍ Does it matter if we’re a bit late? It doesn't matter to me what you do.
❏ as a matter of fact [IDM ] အမှန်တကယ်။ တကယ်။ I'm going there tomorrow, as a matter of fact.
❏ be another/ a different matter [IDM ] တခြားစီ။ I can read French quite well, but speaking it fluently is a different matter.
❏ for that matter [ IDM ] တစ်ဆက်တည်းပင်။ တကယ် တော့။ Don't talk like that to your mother, or to anyone else for that matter.
❏ it's all, only, etc a matter of time (before…) [IDM ] အချိန်တန်လျှင်။ It's simply a matter of time before the rebels are crushed.
❏ make matters worse [IDM ] ပိုဆိုးစေသည်။ ဘူးလေးရာ ဖရုံဆင့်။ Her attempts to calm them down only made matters worse.
❏ (as) a matter of course [IDM ] ထုံးစံအတိုင်း။ လုပ်ရိုး လုပ်စဉ်အတိုင်း။ I check my in-tray every morning as a matter of course.
❏ matter-of-fact adj အရှိကို အရှိအတိုင်း။ စိတ်မပါသလို (ဟန်)။ She told us the news in a very matter-of-fact way. matter-of-factly adv
❏ a matter of hours, minutes, days, etc ; a matter of pounds, feet, ounces, etc [IDM ]
၁။ (နာရီပိုင်း စသည်) ထက်မပို။ I'll be back in a matter of hours. ❍ It's a matter of a few more miles, that's all.
၂။ အနည်းဆုံး။ It may be a matter of months before it's ready.
❏ a matter of life and death [IDM ] သေရေး ရှင်ရေးကိစ္စ။ Of course this must have priority—it's a matter of life and death.
❏ a matter of opinion [IDM ] သဘော။ အယူအဆ။ ‘She's a fine singer. ’ ‘That's a matter of opinion. ’
❏ a matter of record [IDM ] မှတ်တမ်းဝင်သည့် အရာ။ The minister's views on this subject are a matter of record.
❏ (be) a matter of sth/doing sth [IDM ] အကြောင်းရင်း။ အရင်းခံ။ Dealing with such problems is all a matter of experience. ❍ Success in business is simply a matter of knowing when to take a chance.
❏ no matter; be/make no matter (to sb) (that/whether…) [IDM ] ကိစ္စမရှိ။ ရပါတယ်။ ‘I can't do it. ’ ‘No matter, I'll do it myself. ’ ❍ It's no matter to me whether you arrive early or late.
❏ no matter who, what, where, etc [IDM ] ဘယ်သူမဆို၊ ဘာမဆို၊ ဘယ်နေရာမဆို စသည်။ Don't open the door, no matter who comes. ❍ Don't trust him, no matter what he says.