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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford

Meaning of "dead matter" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEAD MATTER

dead matter  [ded ˈmætə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEAD MATTER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dead matter is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEAD MATTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dead matter in the English dictionary

The definition of dead matter in the dictionary is type that has already been used or is not going to be used.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEAD MATTER


antimatter
ˈæntɪˌmætə
batter
ˈbætə
blatter
ˈblætə
chatter
ˈtʃætə
condensed-matter
kənˈdenstˌmætə
flatter
ˈflætə
formatter
ˈfɔːmætə
kata
ˈkætə
latter
ˈlætə
matter
ˈmætə
matters
ˈmætə
overmatter
ˈəʊvəˌmætə
paramatta
ˌpærəˈmætə
parramatta
ˌpærəˈmætə
platter
ˈplætə
regatta
rɪˈɡætə
scatter
ˈskætə
shatter
ˈʃætə
smatter
ˈsmætə
splatter
ˈsplætə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEAD MATTER

dead letter box
dead letter drop
dead load
dead loss
dead man walking
dead man´s fingers
dead man´s handle
dead man´s pedal
dead march
dead marine
dead men
dead on
dead point
dead president
dead reckoning
dead ringer
Dead Sea
Dead Sea Scrolls
dead season
dead set

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEAD MATTER

better
condensed matter
dark matter
fatter
fly swatter
for that matter
front matter
hatter
no laughing matter
no matter
organic matter
pancake batter
patter
ratter
seafood platter
slatter
squatter
subject matter
the fact of the matter
the matter
white matter

Synonyms and antonyms of dead matter in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dead matter» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEAD MATTER

Find out the translation of dead matter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dead matter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dead matter» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死的物质
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

materia muerta
570 millions of speakers

English

dead matter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मृत बात
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مادة ميتة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мертвая материя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

matéria morta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত ব্যাপার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

matière morte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perkara mati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tote Materie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無機物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

죽은 문제
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mati perkara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vấn đề chết
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறந்த விஷயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृत बाब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ölü madde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

materia morta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

martwa materia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мертва матерія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

materie moartă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νεκρή ύλη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dooie materie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

död materia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

død materie
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dead matter

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAD MATTER»

The term «dead matter» is regularly used and occupies the 107.644 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAD MATTER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dead matter» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dead matter» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dead matter

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QUOTES WITH «DEAD MATTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dead matter.
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Lewis Mumford
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEAD MATTER»

Discover the use of dead matter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dead matter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dead Matter
Shaking up the spirits of Manhattan The spirit populace of Manhattan doesn't appreciate its well-deserved RIP being disturbed, and Department of Extraordinary Affairs Agent Simon Canderous is sent in to do damage control.
Anton Strout, 2010
2
Dead matter in the living body.” A plea for organization ...
which are in point of fact, dead matter in the living body. And just in proportion to the increased life and. action of the Church of England upon the masses of the heathen world generally, so in proportion the pressure of this dead matter is felt, ...
3
Wilford's Microcosm
Through invisible, immaterial forces which pertain to the inorganic world, dead matter acts on dead matter; and this is chemistry. Living matter acts on dead matter, and this is vitality. Living matter transforms usable things — food, air, water ...
4
Water-cure Journal
Q. What is it to " act on ?" Ans. Exert force on. I. Example 1. Potash is dead matter. Example 2. A live man is living matter. Example 3. Potash in contact with a living man exerts force on him. II. Example 1. Mercury is dead matter.
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Herald of Health
In this article then, we shall limit our remarks to the more obvious relation of dead matter in contact with living. Now, if Dr. Trail really thinks that living matter only is active in its relation of contact with dead matter, as he so repeatedly affirms, ...
6
Humboldt Medical Archives
He calls the living organic matter the "germinal matter," and the dead matter "the formed material." His germinal matter can only be formed by germinal matter; it is formless and colorless, containing microscopic spherules* of various sizes, the ...
7
Medical Archives
He calls the living organic matter the "germinal matter," and the dead matter "the formed material." His germinal matter can only be formed by germinal matter ; it is formless and colorless, containing microscopic spherules* of various sizes, the ...
James C Whitehall, A Hammer, 1868
8
Christian Thought
For twenty- five years the world waited without seeing any promise and potency of life in dead matter; then at the last meeting of the British Association the president acknowledges that there has never been any spontaneous generation; that ...
Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins, Amory Howe Bradford, 1913
9
Habit and intelligence in their connexion with the laws of ...
No finite number of experimental failures to produce life out of dead matter by a physico-chemical process would be sufficient to disprove the possibility of such production under some rare conjuncture of favouring circumstances : and, on the  ...
Joseph John Murphy, 1879
10
Congressional Serial Set
Treatment of Dead Matter at Receiving Offices. C I a sstficatlon of dead matter. — unclaimed. -refused. —fictitious. -illegible. —hotel. Sec. 643. Dead matter, or that of the first class and obscene, scurrilous, or lottery matter of any class, which is ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEAD MATTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dead matter is used in the context of the following news items.
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Endorsing the salvation of animals, Pope warns of Earth's end
This relegated animals to the status of nothing more than machines that were only dead matter and, unlike humans, did not consist of a mortal ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
2
Stupidity And Intelligence: Science, GMOs And Our Food
Living systems are not dead matter, assembled like a machine. Yet in recent times only one kind of knowledge, the Mechanistic Reductionist ... «CounterCurrents.org, Jun 15»
3
Sparks fly at council over apology request
... of rebutting McCaw's suggestions after the appeal was tossed, but opted later not to, saying it's now a dead matter resolved by city rules. «Belleville Intelligencer, Jun 15»
4
Chaput calls encyclical 'complex appeal to conscience'
... and their equally deep distrust of man's temptation to dominate and abuse; to treat creation as dead matter available for exploitation," Chaput ... «Philly.com, Jun 15»
5
​Praise Be to You, Lord
... and their equally deep distrust of man's temptation to dominate and abuse; to treat creation as dead matter available for exploitation. «First Things, Jun 15»
6
What JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and the Pope's New Encyclical Have …
... and their equally deep distrust of man's temptation to dominate and abuse; to treat creation as dead matter available for exploitation. «Aleteia EN, Jun 15»
7
Soil, papered over
Living systems are not dead matter, assembled like a machine. Yet, in recent times, only one kind of knowledge, the mechanistic reductionist ... «The Asian Age, Jun 15»
8
BU prof 'giving a voice to the dead'
The dead matter, and I can find them and help tell their story. Helping families find closure and giving a voice to the dead — that's what matters ... «Brandon Sun, Jun 15»
9
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Darwin had experimented with electrical stimulation on dead matter, preserving a piece of vermicelli in a glass case “and by some ... «h+ Magazine, Jun 15»
10
Micro bugs may help in restoring our embattled water bodies
The technology uses several breeds of live microbes, including yeast and photosynthetic bacteria, that react with decomposing or dead matter ... «The Hindu, May 15»

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