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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mature
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mature studentespecially BrE (= a student who is over 25 years old)
▪ He took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University.
mature student
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ She's about seven years old, fully mature, and might live to be thirty or thirty-five.
▪ The fully mature 1994 costs about $ 10.
▪ The fish pictured are not fully mature and have yet to achieve the intense red colouring of the caudal and dorsal finnage.
more
▪ We are now a much more mature economy.
▪ They tend to be more mature, more responsible, and to come from more affluent homes.
▪ These rather sweeping generalisations are now giving way to a more mature analysis of the contradictions of science and technology.
▪ Considerable growth and time are needed before the new, more mature personality is formed and the old conflicts are integrated.
▪ These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields.
▪ He has become a lot more mature on his shot selection.
▪ He seemed less absurd, more mature, and I don't know why.
▪ This, together with a more mature technique, produces some impressive poems.
sexually
▪ The end result of evolution through man's desire was to produce a sexually mature wolf pup.
▪ They also said the sexually mature whale needed a mate.
▪ She found more deaths among sexually mature females than among males, which gave a skew in the latter's favour.
▪ A solitary males will patrol the cliffs in search of bands of sexually mature females.
▪ At what age are Firemouths sexually mature?
▪ Eventually, while still retaining their tadpole appearance, they become sexually mature and breed.
▪ For it is clear that in the traditional view a sexually mature woman should be sexually active.
very
▪ It's a very mature situation to have to face.
▪ For an eight-year-old, Nelson appeared in some ways to be very mature.
▪ Nevertheless, this is a truly outstanding study in every respect, displaying a very mature style and analysis.
▪ As I went in, I felt that I had become very mature.
■ NOUN
age
▪ This is unlikely to deter parents wishing to start a family at a more mature age than usual.
▪ Among those recruited, there were many more men and women of mature age than usual.
▪ Others presumably went into employment thus joining the pool of potential young mature age entrants.
entrant
▪ Among our sample were six engineers who, with differing motives, had been mature entrants to the profession.
▪ Meanwhile, the number of mature entrants to higher education has risen by 65 percent since 1979.
▪ An additional factor in considering the question of definition is that by far the majority of non-traditional entrants are also mature entrants.
▪ This difference was explained largely by the higher rate of withdrawal for non academic reasons for mature entrants.
▪ Establish training courses for mature entrants.
▪ The second area of contention was the treatment of mature entrants.
industry
▪ The propane industry was a mature industry and Mega was primarily a single business company.
man
▪ Hookers have this thing for mature men.
▪ It would have to be a mature man, a practiced Don Juan like Zbigniew Shapira.
▪ He must face up to life like the mature man he was.
▪ Tommaso made me look like a mature man, an important man.
market
▪ It is, rather, a mature market that is in decline.
▪ And there are other more mature markets in which our business can be expanded further.
▪ Price competition Price competition occurs in mature markets, much of it induced by clients.
▪ Here on the Island we have a mature market.
plant
▪ Measurements denote the average heights of mature plants.
▪ The police were forced to grow mature plants from the seeds to prove they were a drug, she said.
▪ The measurements in the following section denote the average heights of mature plants.
reflection
▪ His men would carry their standard-issue M16 rifles, although on mature reflection he decided that they should not be loaded.
▪ On mature reflection, however, I begin to see his point.
▪ One can not condemn some one without mature reflection on his conduct.
student
▪ I was a mature student of the time so I would be pleased to hear from those graduating prior to 1985.
▪ Such clothing also gives the impression, particularly to less mature students, that the school supports the particular religion.
▪ Some of them were mature students studying medicine, dentistry, law, engineering.
▪ Colleges welcome mature students for two reasons.
▪ The greatest inequality between the two countries is for mature students.
▪ The latter includes both young and mature students with normal entry qualifications.
▪ A prospectus for mature students which gives full details of entry requirements and other relevant information is available from the Registry.
▪ These women, however, demonstrate that it is possible to begin to study scientific and technical fields as a mature student.
tree
▪ He grows roses and part of the grounds consists of a copse of mature trees.
▪ It is over for the mature trees atop Mount Mitchell.
▪ There are other mature trees in the grounds and the garden adjoins the golf course.
▪ There are now too few mature trees to provide seeds in forested areas.
▪ The sides of the creek are covered with mature trees.
▪ Others reported that in some stands, all mature trees were dead.
▪ The plan showed a small wood, plenty of mature trees and even a stream running along the edge of the property.
▪ The brush of heavy foliage from lush, mature trees is heady and inspirational.
woman
▪ Suddenly I was the mature woman, faced with new kids in the workplace.
▪ Her clothes were smooth, her make-up was smooth, she looked like a picture out of a magazine for mature women.
▪ In contrast, the media enjoyed the opportunity to report cases of mature women being charged with indecent offences against under-age boys.
▪ Certainly not the mature women who are caring courageously, and quite alone, for the elderly.
▪ A supposedly confident, mature woman.
▪ For it is clear that in the traditional view a sexually mature woman should be sexually active.
▪ Steven, you may not realize it, but you are gaining many advantages by marrying a mature woman.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mature violets reach a height of about 12 inches.
▪ A hen is a mature female chicken, more than ten months old.
▪ After two years of college, the students have a much more mature attitude.
▪ Eagles aren't sexually mature until age five.
▪ Mel's developed into a mature, hard-working person.
▪ Penny seemed more mature than most of the other students.
▪ She's very mature for her age.
▪ The house has a lovely garden surrounded by mature oak trees.
▪ The magazine features wedding ideas for the mature bride.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A mature grapefruit tree can produce 250 grapefruit.
▪ A reasonably mature population ought to be able to handle that.
▪ He grows roses and part of the grounds consists of a copse of mature trees.
▪ It has a large garden with fruit trees and a splendid mature walnut tree.
▪ Nobody told you to flirt with me like a grown mature responsible adult man would do.
▪ One mature backyard lemon tree can produce 300 lemons.
▪ The mature shell size also varies from small species a few centimetres across to giants of a metre or more in diameter.
▪ They want everyone to take to the streets, but people are more mature now.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Along the way she has also matured into a beautiful young woman.
enough
▪ He is a good swimmer - quite good enough, and quite mature enough in that way, to respect flood water.
▪ Last year, it seemed he had matured enough to fulfil himself but a cruel succession of injuries denied him.
▪ Elizabeth: I think some people are never mature enough.
▪ Always choose material mature enough to condition well.
fully
▪ A good rule-of-thumb to remember is that this distance should be at least the height of the tree when it is fully matured.
▪ A yearling hen turkey is a fully matured female turkey, usually under fifteen months old.
▪ An X-ray showed that's lungs hadn't fully matured and that he was suffering respiratory distress syndrome.
▪ A yearling tom turkey is a fully matured male turkey with the same characteristics as the yearling hen turkey. 6.
▪ I propose to add some living rock, but only when the filters are fully matured.
more
▪ We're more sort of settled down, matured more, I think.
▪ Who are these supposedly more mature individuals and why are they lured to the law?
▪ Are you different after a near-death experience, or only more mature?
▪ You're more mature now, and I hope I've learned a few lessons from the mistakes I made.
physically
▪ The teenage years cover a period in which young women and men mature physically, intellectually and emotionally.
▪ Voice over Obviously he has a long way to mature physically, but he's surpassed our hopes.
sexually
▪ Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.
▪ Some species can be extremely difficult to spawn - but keeping large species groups together until they are sexually mature can help.
■ NOUN
age
▪ The teachers treat me as an adult, but I've always been very mature for my age.
▪ It seems that they matured in age, yet, they did not change with the times of today.
▪ I was sixteen and quite mature for my age.
▪ This has the advantage for the medical profession of certainty, but does not allow for children maturing at different ages.
bill
▪ On a particular day the bill will mature.
▪ The 13-week bills mature April 11, 1996, and the 26-week bills mature July 11, 1996.
▪ On day 91 the Treasury bill is said to mature - the original purchaser is lending money to the government.
market
▪ In Brossa's opinion, the transaction processing monitor market has matured considerably over the last eight years.
▪ Once the market expands and matures, many companies dismiss their agents and enter direct selling or open a subsidiary company.
result
▪ Both of us grew and matured immeasurably as a result of going through the process.
year
▪ Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.
▪ Cheshire is actually sold when it is one to two months old, but it can be matured for over a year.
▪ The plant grows much faster in highland areas, however, maturing in two years rather than five.
▪ The peppers are pulped, then left to mature for three years before being distilled with vinegar.
▪ But male elephants only mature at around 30 years old and their many deaths have disrupted patterns of reproduction.
years
▪ The plant grows much faster in highland areas, however, maturing in two years rather than five.
▪ They mature in 10 years, come in $ 1, 000 minimums and provide insurance against an unexpected inflation surge.
▪ The peppers are pulped, then left to mature for three years before being distilled with vinegar.
▪ But male elephants only mature at around 30 years old and their many deaths have disrupted patterns of reproduction.
■ VERB
develop
▪ This will probably develop as he matures.
▪ It seems, therefore, that recognition appears to develop as the chicks mature.
grow
▪ It grows, matures and retains a capacity to surprise and enrich.
▪ Both of us grew and matured immeasurably as a result of going through the process.
▪ The majority of new managers did grow and mature.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A tree takes many years to mature.
▪ Corn needs longer to mature than soybeans.
▪ Girls tend to mature more quickly than boys, both physically and emotionally.
▪ In the hot weather the fruit matured quickly.
▪ John's really matured in the last two years.
▪ The fly matures in only seven days.
▪ These bonds mature in 12 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any project involving rockets is always risky, but the technology is maturing all the time.
▪ It starts with a potent aperitif called Mulsum which takes twenty four hours to mature.
▪ Some early doubts as to the applicability of that privilege before a legislative committee never matured.
▪ The 13-week bills mature April 4, 1996, and the 26-week bills mature July 5, 1996.
▪ The haulm must be allowed to mature to increase the dry matter content.
▪ This was mid-June, and in the nearby fields, next season s crops were maturing.
▪ This will probably develop as he matures.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mature

developed \developed\ adj.

  1. being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; as, the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook; the state's well-developed industries. Oppositre of undeveloped. [Narrower terms: formulated; mature]

  2. made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads; -- of real estate. new houses are springing up on the developed tract of land near the river

    Syn: improved.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mature

late 14c., "encourage suppuration;" mid-15c. "bring to maturity," from Latin maturare "to ripen, bring to maturity," from maturus "ripe, timely, early," related to manus "good" and mane "early, of the morning," from PIE root *ma- (1) "good," with derivatives meaning "occurring at a good moment, timely, seasonable, early." Meaning "come or bring to maturity" is from 1620s. The financial sense of "reach the time for payment" is from 1861. Related: Matured; maturing.

mature

mid-15c., "ripe," also "careful, well-considered," from Latin maturus "ripe, timely, early" (see mature (v.)).

Wiktionary
mature

  1. 1 Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. 2 profound; careful. 3 (context obsolete English) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive of food, especially fruit English) To become mature; to ripen. 2 (context intransitive English) To gain experience or wisdom with age. 3 (context intransitive finance English) To reach the date when payment is due

WordNet
mature

  1. adj. characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age" [ant: immature]

  2. fully considered and perfected; "mature plans" [syn: matured]

  3. having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell" [ant: immature]

  4. fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodies mature wines" [syn: ripe] [ant: green]

  5. (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination [syn: fledged] [ant: unfledged]

mature

  1. v. develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: maturate, grow]

  2. develop and work out fully in one's mind; "I need to mature my thoughts"

  3. become due for repayment; "These bonds mature in 2005"

  4. cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" [syn: ripen]

  5. grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, maturate]

  6. cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules" [syn: suppurate]

Wikipedia
Mature

Mature is the adjectival form of maturity, which has several meanings.

Mature may also refer to:

  • "Mature 17+", a rating in the Entertainment Software Rating Board video game rating system
  • Mature, a character from The King of Fighters series
  • Victor Mature (1913-1999), an American actor

Usage examples of "mature".

While the Convention is in session and the accredited delegates have already elected from among the believers throughout the country the members of the National Spiritual Assembly for the current year, it is of infinite value and a supreme necessity that as far as possible all matters requiring immediate decision should be fully and publicly considered, and an endeavor be made to obtain after mature deliberation, unanimity in vital decisions.

By the time the Culture came to know the Affront better - shortly after the long distraction of the Idiran war - the Affront were a rapidly developing and swiftly maturing species, and short of another war there was no practical way of quickly changing either their nature or behaviour.

When mature the antheridium opens on being moistened and the spermatozoids become free in the water by the dissolution of the mucilaginous cell-walls enclosing them.

True, her mature writing was more directly influenced by close friendships with historians such as Mignet and Thierry, yet she always retained an appreciative recognition of how Lafayette had helped her reconstruct her life in France.

Instead of asserting his just superiority above the imperfect heroism and profane philosophy of Trajan and the Antonines, the mature age of Constantine forfeited the reputation which he had acquired in his youth.

As we mature in our practice, we are able to recognize the initial tendency to drift away from present-moment attentiveness into thinking as an event that is occurring within the open field of our awareness.

Again, the cause of barrenness may either be a diseased condition of the ovaries, preventing them from maturing healthy germs, or chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the neck of the uterus, which does not render conception impossible, but improbable.

Even for a mature woman, she had a figure of health and beguiling attractiveness.

Nowadays, most philosophers of physics, the most mature of the sciences, have distanced themselves from scientific realism, adopting views closer to those of Cardinal Bellarmine than of Galileo.

And surely responsible it is, mature it is, when in its darkest hour, a nation can look deep within its troubled and anguished blah blah blah blah blah blah blah the guilt of all.

Now it was seven and their heady smell, pungent from the new dry rub, mingled with the fully mature aromas of the brisket and the pork shoulder.

If the tentacles of a young, yet fully matured leaf, that has never been excited or become inflected, be examined, the cells forming the pedicels are seen to be filled with homogeneous, purple fluid.

The subject had to grow to meet the higher objects, until both matured enough to die, like a ripe fruit falling from a vine, in stable nondual consciousness as such.

His hair had turned salt and pepper over the years but otherwise he had not matured much either in behavior or appearance.

Paradoxically, he began to move in the other direction as he matured and was one of the pioneers in fictional explanation of the supernatural and witchcraft in scientific terms.