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When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.
Michael Cadnum

Meaning of "what matter" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WHAT MATTER

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WHAT MATTER

what
what a lark!
what about
what for
what have you
what if
what is more
what makes someone tick
what price something?
what the doctor ordered
what you will
what-d´ye-call-her
what-d´ye-call-him
what-d´ye-call-it
what-d´you-call-it
what-for
what-ho
what-if
what´s the odds?
what´s up?

WORDS THAT END LIKE WHAT MATTER

batter
better
blatter
chatter
dark matter
fatter
flatter
for that matter
hatter
latter
matter
no laughing matter
no matter
organic matter
platter
scatter
shatter
splatter
subject matter
the fact of the matter
the matter

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

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Translation of «what matter» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of what matter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of what 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 «what matter» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

啥事
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lo que importa
570 millions of speakers

English

what matter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्या बात
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ما يهم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

что независимо от того,
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

o que importa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কি ব্যাপার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ce qui importe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

apa hal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

welche Sache
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

どうした
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무슨 문제가
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apa prakara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

những gì vấn đề
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

என்ன விஷயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काय फरक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ne olursa olsun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ciò che importa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

co sprawa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

що незалежно від того ,
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ceea ce contează
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τι θέμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wat saak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vad materia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hva saken
5 millions of speakers

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

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3 QUOTES WITH «WHAT MATTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word what matter.
1
Michael Cadnum
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.
2
Donald Norman
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
3
Tiger Woods
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHAT MATTER»

Discover the use of what matter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to what matter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity
by answering Barthes's question with a quotation, one that he has significantly drawn from Beckett: "What matter who's speaking, someone said what matter who's speaking."3 Again, where and how do we locate the authorial center of this text ...
Richard Begam, 1996
2
What Is Matter?
Provides a simple introduction to the concept of matter, discussing how matter can be solid, liquid, or gas.
Don L. Curry, 2005
3
Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the ...
To ask the rhetorical question 'What Matter Who's Speaking?' in a book about identity politics might therefore seem absurd. For the rhetorical register of the question - What matter? For it matters little - fosters a dismissive tone toward identity.
Dr Carolyn D'Cruz, 2012
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A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
No matter. Guile has made me King again 21650 King C. 2.354 Green blinds, as a matter of course, to draw when, the sun gets high; 232.57 Up at VUfa 16 No matter for these! But Giotto, you, 237.W Old Pict. 233 What matter to me if their stur ...
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The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In ...
Form of appeals, and what matter is sufficient to abate them, what not. B. jl. 39. \~. See tit. appeals. YVrit of action upon the cafe, and what matter is sufficient to abate it, what not. B. 5. 2. p. 37. See tit. Action as the Cafe, and Variance. Writ of ...
Sir Edward Coke, George Wilson, 1777
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The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. [1572-1617]: In English, ...
Form os Appeals, and what Matter is sufficient to abate them, what not. B. 4. 39, 47. See Tit. Appeals. Wnc of Action upon the Case, and vvhat Matter is sufficient fVabatc it, «vhat not. B. j. % p. 37. Set Tit. A- fUcti of the Cafe, and Variance- Writ of ...
Great Britain. Courts, Sir Edward Coke, Edward Bulstrode, 1727
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Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics
Differently shaped things can all share the same trajectory, and trajectory is all that matters. This is clearly connected with a common refrain about physics: that it doesn't really say what matter is, only how it behaves.22 The laws tell us what ...
Colin McGinn, 2011
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Hafiz, Master of Persian Poetry: A Critical Bibliography
The master knew that I was a lover; and if Hafiz knoweth that I am in like case , what mattereth it?2 Next McCarthy: If from thy garden I gathered a handful of flowers, what matter? If before the glory of thy lamp I bent my looks to my feet, what ...
Parvin Loloi, 2004
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Radical Nature: The Soul of Matter
Just as we tend to assume we know what consciousness is—because we know what it is to be conscious—we tend to assume that we know what matter is because we inhabit a material body, and are in daily contact with multiple forms of ...
Christian de Quincey, 2010
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Aristole's Motiviation for Matter
I think that in Physics I Aristotle, in fact, gives very interesting reasons for doing so , which we must appreciate if we are going to understand what matter is for Aristotle.1 In this chapter, I will begin by standing back from the text and explaining ...
David Buckley Ebrey, 2007

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« EDUCALINGO. What matter [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/what-matter>. May 2024 ».
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