The matter

Definition

matter /'mætǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ကိစၥ။ အေၾကာင္းအရာ။ အေျခအေန။ 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) ကိစၥ။ ျပႆနာ။ matters of growing public concern ❍ This is a matter of considerable interest to me. ၂။ the matter [sing] ~ (with sb/sth) အေၾကာင္း။ ကိစၥ။ ျပႆနာ။ 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) ျဒပ္။ inert matter ❍ study the properties of matter ❍ The universe is composed of matter. (ခ) အရာဝတၳဳ။ ပစၥည္း။ 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 ) ကိစၥ။ အေၾကာင္းအရာ။ interesting subject matter. ၅။ [U] အရာ။ faecal matter ❍ an infected wound full of matter. v ~ (to sb) အေရးႀကီးသည္။ အေရးပါသည္။ ကိစၥရိွသည္။ 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 ] အမွန္တကယ္။ တကယ္။ I'm going there tomorrow, as a matter of fact. ❏ be another/ a different matter [ IDM ] တျခားစီ။ I can read French quite well, but speaking it fluently is a different matter. ❏ for that matter [ IDM ] တစ္ဆက္တည္းပင္။ တကယ္ ေတာ့။ 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 ] အခ်ိန္တန္လွ်င္။ It's simply a matter of time before the rebels are crushed. ❏ make matters worse [ IDM ] ပိုဆိုးေစသည္။ ဘူးေလးရာ ဖ႐ံုဆင့္။ Her attempts to calm them down only made matters worse. ❏ (as) a matter of course [ IDM ] ထံုးစံအတိုင္း။ လုပ္႐ိုး လုပ္စဥ္အတိုင္း။ I check my in-tray every morning as a matter of course. ❏ matter-of-fact adj အရိွကို အရိွအတိုင္း။ စိတ္မပါသလို (ဟန္)။ 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။ (နာရီပိုင္း စသည္) ထက္မပို။ I'll be back in a matter of hours. ❍ It's a matter of a few more miles, that's all. ၂။ အနည္းဆံုး။ It may be a matter of months before it's ready. ❏ a matter of life and death [ IDM ] ေသေရး ရွင္ေရးကိစၥ။ Of course this must have priority—it's a matter of life and death. ❏ a matter of opinion [ IDM ] သေဘာ။ အယူအဆ။ ‘She's a fine singer. ’ ‘That's a matter of opinion. ’ ❏ a matter of record [ IDM ] မွတ္တမ္းဝင္သည့္ အရာ။ The minister's views on this subject are a matter of record. ❏ (be) a matter of sth/doing sth [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းရင္း။ အရင္းခံ။ 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 ] ကိစၥမရိွ။ ရပါတယ္။ ‘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 ] ဘယ္သူမဆို၊ ဘာမဆို၊ ဘယ္ေနရာမဆို စသည္။ Don't open the door, no matter who comes. ❍ Don't trust him, no matter what he says.

Examples

1. [a matter for something] : Teachers feel this is a matter for discussion with parents.
2. An extremely important matter
3. [what’s the matter] : You look sad. What’s the matter?
4. What’s the matter with the car?
5. I think there’s something the matter with the printer.
6. [there’s nothing the matter] : There’s nothing the matter with you – you’re just tired.
7. Her angry attitude didn’t improve matters.
8. [to make matters worse] : The parcel arrived late and
9. to make matters worse
10. it wasn’t what we had ordered.
11. You can improve the soil by adding composted organic matter.
12. [matter of] : The school could close in a matter of a few weeks.