Material
[mə'tɪərɪəl] or [mə'tɪrɪəl]
Definition
(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' .
Typist: Zamenhof--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Physical, corporeal, bodily, not spiritual.[2]. Essential, important, momentous, vital.
n. Matter, substance, stuff.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ESSENTIAL]
SYN:Substance, stuff
ANT:Work, production, design
Checker: Stella
Definition
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.
Editor: Myra
Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Having an actual existence as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
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Examples
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Numerous attempts were consequently made to obtain a more sensitive material. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Watt and his contemporaries regarded heat as a material substance called Phlogiston. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is rich in biographical material. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or many tons of metal or other coarse material. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The floor was of another material, very hard, and worn by much use to the smoothness of glass. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It meant the apprehension of material which should ballast and check the exercise of reasoning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He abandoned the resin as a sensitive material, and went back to the salts of silver. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Much of this early Turkish material still awaits examination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This is done by attaching to the service pipe tanks filled with filtering material, through which the water flows before reaching the boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And this is what you call guarding one's materials, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Besides air this process required as raw materials limestone and coke. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The skins of the larger animals were the original materials of clothing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The operation is novel, not the materials out of which it is constructed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Besides different forms and sizes he tried various materials of construction, and ultimately various means of propulsion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was also rapidly getting out the materials and constructing the boats for a third bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- 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. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I rose, and set her drawing materials in order, and placed them near her again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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