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Material   /mətˈɪriəl/   Listen
Material

noun
1.
The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.  Synonym: stuff.  "Wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
2.
Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form.
3.
Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.  Synonyms: cloth, fabric, textile.  "Woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC" , "She measured off enough material for a dress"
4.
Things needed for doing or making something.  "Useful teaching materials"
5.
A person judged suitable for admission or employment.  "She was vice-presidential material"
adjective
1.
Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests.  "Material wealth" , "Material comforts"
2.
Derived from or composed of matter.
3.
Directly relevant to a matter especially a law case.  "Evidence material to the issue at hand" , "Facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts" , "A material witness"
4.
Concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being.  "The moral and material welfare of all good citizens"
5.
Having material or physical form or substance.  Synonym: corporeal.
6.
Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary.  Synonyms: real, substantial.  "A mere dream, neither substantial nor practical" , "Most ponderous and substantial things"



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"Material" Quotes from Famous Books



... not interpret the Jewish formula of belief in the same spirit as the herd,— the religion inculcated in the breast of Leila was different from that which Inez had ever before encountered amongst her proselytes. It was less mundane and material—a kind of passionate rather than metaphysical theism, which invested the great ONE, indeed, with many human sympathies and attributes, but still left Him the August and awful God of the Genesis, the Father of a Universe though ...
— Leila or, The Siege of Granada, Book III. • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... forms sprang into being and leaped across emptiness. There were microwaves of strictly standard amplitude, for measurement-standards. There were frequencies of other values, which would be selectively absorbed by this material and that. There were laterally and circularly polarized beams. When they bounced back, they would bring a surprising ...
— The Aliens • Murray Leinster
... no air, and no friction in the apparatus of suspension, the pendulum would continue to go as well without the wheel-work as with it. With the wheel-work it beats as permanently and steadily upon material supports and plunged in a dense atmosphere, as it would if it were hung upon nothing, and were swinging in nothing; and also performs its backward and forward business in solitude and darkness, to the same practical purpose that it would if the eyes of watchful and observant guardians ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 - Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 • Various
... really heartless?" thought the old man, with a pang of disappointment. "Am I mistaken in thinking the good material is there?" ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... wife very little further need be said. From that time forth nothing material occurred to interrupt the even course of their domestic harmony. Very speedily, a further vacancy on the bench of bishops gave Dr Proudie the seat in the House of Lords, which he at first so anxiously longed for. But by this time, he had become a wiser man. ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope


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