material

[ma·te·ri·al]

Material is cloth from which clothes, curtains, or similar items can be created. If you sew your own bathing suit, it's important to make sure the material you use doesn't turn transparent when it gets wet.

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

Noun
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"

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"

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Adjective
having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare

Adjective
derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe"

Adjective
having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett

Adjective
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"

Adjective S.
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

Adjective S.
concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"


a.
Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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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.

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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.


Material

Ma*te"ri*al , a. [L. materialis, fr. materia stuff, matter: cf. F. mat'82riel. See Matter, and cf. Mat'90riel.] 1. Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
The material elements of the universe.
2. 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. 3. Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
Discourse, which was always material, never trifling.
I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
4. (Logic.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter. Material cause. See under Cause. -- Material evidence (Law), evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. Wharton. Syn. -- Corporeal; bodily; important; weighty; momentous; essential.

Material

Ma*te"ri*al, n. The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made. Raw material, any crude, unfinished, or elementary materials that are adapted to use only by processes of skilled labor. Cotton, wool, ore, logs, etc., are raw material.

Material

Ma*te"ri*al, v. t. To form from matter; to materialize. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

To form from matter; to materialize.

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Usage Examples

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

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Other Usage Examples

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

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