Material
[mə'tɪərɪəl] or [mə'tɪrɪəl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) things needed for doing or making something; 'writing materials'; 'useful teaching materials'.
(noun.) information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form; 'the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography'.
(noun.) a person judged suitable for admission or employment; 'he was university material'; 'she was vice-presidential material'.
(noun.) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; 'coal is a hard black material'; 'wheat is the stuff they use to make bread'.
(adj.) derived from or composed of matter; 'the material universe' .
(adj.) directly relevant to a matter especially a law case; 'his support made a material difference'; 'evidence material to the issue at hand'; 'facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts'; 'a material witness' .
(adj.) concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being; 'material needs'; 'the moral and material welfare of all good citizens'- T.Roosevelt .
(adj.) concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; 'material possessions'; 'material wealth'; 'material comforts' .
手打:柴门霍夫--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
(a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
(a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
(a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
(n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
(v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.
阿斯特編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Physical, corporeal, bodily, not spiritual.[2]. Essential, important, momentous, vital.
n. Matter, substance, stuff.
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同義詞及反義詞:
[See ESSENTIAL]
SYN:Substance, stuff
ANT:Work, production, design
整理:斯特拉
解釋/意思:
adj. consisting of matter: corporeal not spiritual: substantial: essential: important esp. of legal importance: (phil.) pertaining to matter and not to form relating to the object as it exists.—n. esp. in pl. that out of which anything is to be made.—n. Materialisā′tion.—v.t. Matē′rialīse to render material: to reduce to or regard as matter: to occupy with material interests.—ns. Matē′rialism the doctrine that denies the independent existence of spirit and maintains that there is but one substance—viz. matter—thus professing to find in matter (monistic or philosophical materialism) or in material entities (atomistic materialism) or in material qualities and forces (scientific or physical materialism) a complete explanation of all life and existence whatsoever; Matē′rialist one who holds the doctrine of materialism: one absorbed in material interests who takes a low view of life and its responsibilities.—adjs. Materialist′ic -al pertaining to materialism.—adv. Matē′rially.—ns. Matē′rialness Material′ity.—Material being existence in the form of matter; Material cause that which gives being to the thing; Material distinction a distinction between individuals of the same species; Material evidence evidence tending to prove or to disprove the matter under judgment; Material fallacy a fallacy in the matter or thought rather than in the logical form; Material form a form depending on matter; Material issue (see Issue).—Raw material stuff as yet unworked into anything useful.
校對:迈拉
娱乐性解釋/意思:
adj. Having an actual existence as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
班尼特手打
例句/造句/用法:
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Numerous attempts were consequently made to obtain a more sensitive material. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Watt and his contemporaries regarded heat as a material substance called Phlogiston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is rich in biographical material. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or many tons of metal or other coarse material. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The floor was of another material, very hard, and worn by much use to the smoothness of glass. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It meant the apprehension of material which should ballast and check the exercise of reasoning. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He abandoned the resin as a sensitive material, and went back to the salts of silver. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Much of this early Turkish material still awaits examination. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This is done by attaching to the service pipe tanks filled with filtering material, through which the water flows before reaching the boiler. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In connection with the adoption of this lubricating system there occurred another instance of his knowledge of materials and intuitive insight into the nature of things. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And this is what you call guarding one's materials, he said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The acid used to liberate the chlorine from the bleaching powder, and the chlorine also, rot materials with which they remain in contact for any length of time. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Besides air this process required as raw materials limestone and coke. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The skins of the larger animals were the original materials of clothing. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bring writing materials when you come next to my cell, and within a few hours we shall see you garbed in a style befitting your birth and carriage. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The operation is novel, not the materials out of which it is constructed. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Besides different forms and sizes he tried various materials of construction, and ultimately various means of propulsion. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He was also rapidly getting out the materials and constructing the boats for a third bridge. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But I was determined not to seem at a loss for occupation or amusement: I had brought my drawing materials with me, and they served me for both. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In a tool-shed at the bottom of the garden, lay the relics of building-materials, left by masons lately employed to repair a part of the premises. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I rose, and set her drawing materials in order, and placed them near her again. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Pots are used containing the materials to be melted and not heated in the presence of the burning fuel, but by the heated gases in separate compartments. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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