mater
mater
Definition
ma·ter (māt′ər, mät′-)
mater
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- urgency: I need you to sign the attached consent slip as a mater of urgency before Thursday.
Converse of object
- do: The sea was still rough, but it didn't mater.
- call: Go into a pub or shop to call a mater to meet you Have your house keys ready before you reach the door.
Adjective modifier
- subject: His judgements are immune from logical criticism because his subject mater includes the non-logical ground of logic itself.
- old: I think he had not realized his proximity to his old alma mater.
- own: Take the simple expression much heard in the playground of my own alma mater: " punch his pus " .
- organic: Dig a large hole and fork the base incorporating large amounts of organic mater such as garden compost, farmyard or stable manure.
- other: Steve Lowe's piece this week, about homework and other maters, may strike a chord!
Modifies a noun
- hwn: Yr ydym wedi bod yn gyson ar y mater hwn.
- graft: Dura mater grafts have largely been replaced by synthetic materials or by grafts of fibrous tissue derived from the individual undergoing the graft.
- yn: Mae'r mater hwn yn peri pryder i gymunedau cefn gwlad yn y canolbarth ac yng ngorllewin Cymru.
- o: Mae'n drueni mawr bod y Prif Weinidog wedi gwrthod ystyried y mater hwn o ddifrif.
- Yr: Nid hwnnw yw'r mater yr ydym yn ei godi yn y ddadl heddiw.
- allweddol: Trof at y Gymraeg, sef y mater allweddol arall.
Noun used with modifier
- alma: His very words: " Alma mater, si?
- dura: In the image below, the dark ruler is showing the dura mater still adhering to the inside of the cranial cavity.
- pia: I will buy nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not worth the ninth part of a sparrow.
- redemptoris: Alma redemptoris mater is an anonymous setting by an unknown composer, here transcribed and transposed for soprano, alto and tenor solo voices.
- ar: Yr ydym wedi bod yn gyson ar y mater hwn.
- i'r: Fodd bynnag, nid yw hynny'n golygu i'r mater allweddol hwn gael ei drin yn synhwyrol mewn unrhyw ffordd.
Browse dictionary entries near mater
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- matelot
- matelassé
- mate
- matchwood
- matchup
- matchstick
- matchmark
- matchmaking
- matchmaker
