matter

/ˈmætər/

意味: 問題、物質

例文: Chair-kun said, “Everything is matter.”
　　  チェア君は「全ては物質だ」と言った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: important matter(重要な問題), dark matter(暗黒物質), subject matter(主題)

定義: 物事や問題、または物質のことを指します。何かが重要であるかどうかを示すときにも使います。科学では、物質や物体の構成要素を指すこともあります。

matterは約4,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a vaguely specified concern
Noun: some situation or event that is thought about
Noun: that which has mass and occupies space
Noun: a problem
Noun: (used with negation) having consequence
Noun: written works (especially in books or magazines)
Verb: have weight; have import, carry weight

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

This is a serious matter we need to discuss.(これは真剣な問題です、話し合う必要があります。)
Does it really matter what others think?(他人の意見は本当に重要ですか？)
The matter was resolved quickly by the team.(その問題はチームによってすぐに解決されました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: several matters to attend to
Noun: it is none of your affair
Noun: things are going well
Noun: he kept drifting off the topic
Noun: he had been thinking about the subject for several years
Noun: it is a matter for the police
Noun: physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it
Noun: is anything the matter?
Noun: they were friends and it was no matter who won the games
Noun: he always took some reading matter with him on the plane
Verb: It does not matter much

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): affair, count, issue, matter, subject, thing, topic, weigh

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): be, concern, consequence, content, physical entity, trouble, writing

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abound, accept, account, account for, acculturation, act, adaptation, answer, appear, autograph, bake, balance, be well, beat, begin, belief, belong, bowdlerization, breathe, buy, can of worms, causal agent, clean, cohere, come in for, come in handy, compact, compare, confuse, connect, consist, contain, continue, cost, count, cover, criticism, cryptogram, cut, cut across, deck, deep water, depend, deserve, diary, disagree, distribute, dithyramb, diverge, document, dramatic composition, draw, editing, education, end, essay, experience, fall, feel, figure, fit, food, gape, go, goal, gravitate, growing pains, hail, hang, head, hell to pay, heresy, hold, hoodoo, hum, hydra, idea, ignorance, impend, incarnate, inscription, iridesce, issue, jumble, kernel, kill, knowledge domain, lend, let go, lie, literary composition, literature, litter, loiter, look, lore, lubricate, make, make sense, manuscript, matter, measure, metaknowledge, mope, noumenon, object, osculate, owe, paragraph, part, pay, personal business, plagiarism, point, point of honor, press, pressure point, process, promise, prove, put out, rage, range, rank, rate, recognize, relate, remain, represent, representation, rest, retard, rewrite, run, run into, rut, sacred text, screed, section, seem, seethe, sell, shine, sparkle, specify, squat, stagnate, stand, stand by, stay, stick, stink, substance, subtend, suck, suffer, suit, swim, swing, tend, test, thing, title, topic, total, tradition, transcript, translate, transplant, treatise, trim, unbelief, underlie, universe, want, wash, wind, wisdom, work, worldly concern

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): addendum, antimatter, area, back matter, blind spot, dark matter, dictation, emanation, fluid, front matter, glop, hard copy, least, recitation, remit, res judicata, residue, sediment, sludge, soft copy, solid, solute, substance, system, text, typescript, vegetable matter, weigh, ylem

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: matter, topical

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
stative verb, transitive verb
countable noun, uncountable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): er

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: