What is the meaning of MATTE. Phrases containing MATTE
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An oath administered to a witness, usually before being sworn in chief, requiring him to speak the truth, or make true answers in reference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to give evidence.
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a.
Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding.
n.
One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc.
n.
Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter ? no matter, and the like.
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Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.
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Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
v. i.
Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
n.
An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
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Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
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The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
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The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
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Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
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Full of substance or matter; important.
n.
The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort.
v. i.
To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
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Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.
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Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair.
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A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
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