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- 2: matter/English/verb: invalid uppercase tag General-American not in or uppercase_tags: {"categories": ["English countable nouns", "English doublets", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman", "English terms derived from Latin", "English terms derived from Middle English", "English terms derived from Old French", "English terms inherited from Middle English", "English terms with homophones", "English uncountable nouns", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 6 entries", "Pages with entries", "Requests for review of Dutch translations", "Requests for review of Interlingua translations", "Requests for review of Italian translations", "Requests for review of Latin translations", "Requests for review of Romanian translations", "Requests for review of Serbo-Croatian translations", "Rhymes:English/ætə(ɹ)", "Rhymes:English/ætə(ɹ)/2 syllables", "Terms with Afrikaans translations", 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"Terms with Tamil translations", "Terms with Tatar translations", "Terms with Telugu translations", "Terms with Thai translations", "Terms with Tibetan translations", "Terms with Turkish translations", "Terms with Turkmen translations", "Terms with Ukrainian translations", "Terms with Urdu translations", "Terms with Uyghur translations", "Terms with Uzbek translations", "Terms with Vietnamese translations", "Terms with West Frisian translations", "Terms with Yiddish translations", "Terms with Yoruba translations", "Terms with Zulu translations"], "derived": [{"word": "all lives matter"}, {"word": "black lives matter"}, {"word": "blue lives matter"}, {"word": "it doesn't matter"}, {"word": "it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right"}, {"word": "police lives matter"}, {"word": "what does it matter"}, {"word": "white lives matter"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "matere"}, "expansion": "Middle English matere", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "xno", "3": "materie", "4": "matere, materie"}, "expansion": "Anglo-Norman matere, materie", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "materie", "4": "materie, matiere"}, "expansion": "Old French materie, matiere", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "la", "3": "materia", "t": "wood"}, "expansion": "Latin materia (“wood”)", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "xcl", "2": "մայր", "3": "", "4": "cedar"}, "expansion": "Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”)", "name": "cog"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "Madeira", "3": "mata", "4": "mater", "5": "matrix", "6": "mother"}, "expansion": "Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and mother", "name": "doublet"}, {"args": {"1": "Displaced"}, "expansion": "Displaced", "name": "glossary"}, {"args": {"1": "enm", "2": "andweorc", "3": "andweorc, andwork", "g": "", "g2": "", "g3": "", "id": "", "lit": "", "pos": "", "sc": "", "t": "material, matter", "tr": "", "ts": ""}, "expansion": "Middle English andweorc, 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My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:", "text": "Despite further attempts by Agbonlahor and Young, however, they could not find the goal to reward their endeavour.\nIt mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["To be important."], "links": [["important", "important"]], "raw_glosses": ["(intransitive, stative) To be important."], "tags": ["intransitive", "stative"]}, {"categories": ["Caribbean English", "English English", "English terms with quotations", "English transitive verbs", "Regional English"], "examples": [{"ref": ", Folio Society 1973, p.47", "text": "Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof […]"}, {"ref": "1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LVI”, in Clarissa. 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"word": "signify"}], "translations": [{"code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "to be important", "word": "saakmaak"}, {"code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "hamma", "sense": "to be important", "word": "هَمَّ"}, {"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "imam značenie", "sense": "to be important", "word": "имам значение"}, {"code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "to be important", "word": "importar"}, {"code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "roman": "gan² jiu³", "sense": "to be important", "word": "緊要 /紧要"}, {"code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "yǒuguānxi", "sense": "to be important", "word": "有關係 /有关系"}, {"code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "yàojǐn", "sense": "to be important", "word": "要緊 /要紧"}, {"code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to be important", "word": "záležet"}, {"code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to be important", "word": "belangrijk zijn"}, {"code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to be important", "word": "er toe doen"}, {"code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "to be important", "word": "uitmaken"}, {"code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "to be important", "word": "gravi"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to be important", "word": "merkitä"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to be important", "word": "olla merkitystä"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to be important", "word": "haitata"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "to be important", "word": "importer"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "to be important", "word": "compter"}, {"code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "to be important", "word": "importar"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to be important", "word": "wichtig sein"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to be important", "word": "etwas ausmachen"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "to be important", "word": "zählen"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "mahattvapūrṇ", "sense": "to 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"intersum"}, {"code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "to be important", "word": "pertineo ad"}, {"code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "to be important", "word": "pertineo"}, {"code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "to be important", "word": "telle"}, {"code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "to be important", "word": "være viktig"}, {"code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "to be important", "word": "spille en rolle"}, {"code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "to be important", "word": "ha betydning"}, {"code": "ang", "lang": "Old English", "sense": "to be important", "word": "mǣnan"}, {"code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "to be important", "word": "mieć znaczenie"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "to be important", "word": "importar"}, {"code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "to be important", "word": "conta"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "imétʹ značénije", "sense": "to be important", "tags": ["imperfective"], "word": "име́ть значе́ние"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "bytʹ vážnym", "sense": "to be important", "tags": ["imperfective"], "word": "быть ва́жным"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "to be important", "word": "is coma"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to be important", "tags": ["Cyrillic"], "word": "бити битно"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to be important", "tags": ["Cyrillic"], "word": "имати значење"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to be important", "tags": ["Cyrillic"], "word": "имати важност"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to be important", "tags": ["Roman"], "word": "biti bitno"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to be important", "tags": ["Roman"], "word": "imati značenje"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "to be important", "tags": ["Roman"], "word": "imati važnost"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", 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matter (English verb)
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matter (English verb)
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matter (English verb)
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