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material
Found in thesaurus: matter, substance, info, information, equipment, artefact, artifact, applier, applicant
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material
adj.
physical, bodily; related to bodily comfort; substantial; tangible; important, essential, relevant; of or pertaining to matter
n.
substance, matter, stuff of which something is made; fabric, cloth; equipment and supplies needed for an activity; information gathered for a book or research project
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Material
Material is a broad term for the (chemical) substance, or a mixture of substances that constitute a thing. See:-
- Materials science, a physical science
- Raw material
- Biomaterial
- Textile, sometimes referred to as "material"
- Composite material
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material
Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) stuff
(hypernym) substance, matter
(hyponym) rind
2. 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"
(hypernym) information, info
(hyponym) rehash
3. things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"
(hypernym) equipment
(hyponym) packaging
4. 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"
(synonym) fabric, cloth, textile
(hypernym) artifact, artefact
(hyponym) aba, aba cloth
(substance-meronym) warp
(part-meronym) edging
5. a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"
(hypernym) applicant, applier
Adjective
1. concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"
(similar) worldly
2. derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe"
(antonym) immaterial, nonmaterial
(similar) physical, tangible, touchable
(see-also) substantial, real
(attribute) materiality, physicalness, corporeality
3. 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"
(antonym) immaterial
(similar) crucial, relevant
4. 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
(similar) physical
5. having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
(synonym) corporeal
(similar) bodily
(see-also) bodied
(attribute) materiality, physicalness, corporeality
6. 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
(synonym) substantial, real
(attribute) substantiality, substantialness
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Material (das)
n.
material, substance, matter, stuff; equipment and supplies needed for an activity; issue, information gathered for a book or research project; components
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material
adj.
material, physical; objective; true
material
nm.
material; equipment
