material
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.
Inflected forms:
form: more material
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most material
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: materials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
pos: adj
examples: This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
the material elements of the universe
gloss: Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
pos: adj
examples: material needs
gloss: Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
pos: adj
examples: material cause
the material aspect of being
gloss: Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: found a material difference between two things
You've made several material contributions to this project.
This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
discourse, which was always material, not trifling
I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
gloss: Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
pos: adj
examples: the material world
interested only in material progress
Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
'Cause we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl / You know that we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl
gloss: Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: In an important degree.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.
In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
gloss: A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
sometimes
uncountable
examples: boy/girlfriend material
marriage material
We have lots of presidential material in various public offices.
Before she married her husband, Kiersten Little considered him ideal father material.
gloss: Apparatus for doing or making something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
uncountable
usually
examples: Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
gloss: Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: teaching materials
We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original material to headline.
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
gloss: Fabric, which can be made into a garments, curtains, etc; especially, woven fabric (cloth).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a piece of material
You'll need about a yard of material to make this.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
gloss: The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The solid materials of the mixture will settle to the bottom of the container.
The material of his character was basically good.
[…] I beleeve that as they ſay of the materialls of the world, they would ſoone diſolve if the ſoule of it were taken away […]
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
gloss: An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ingredients for making whisky punch.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The materiel of an army.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: Things that are material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Synonyms: material
Related words: matter
materiel
substantial
for material's use as an adjective
Derived words: active material
antimaterial
archaeomaterial
archeomaterial
astromaterial
bill of material
bimaterial
biomaterial
bomb material
building material
child sexual abuse material
collateral material
composite material
cryptomaterial
ecomaterial
genetic material
genuine issue of material fact
geomaterial
hazardous material
hazmat
Kelvin-Voigt material
material action
material conditional
material culture
material fact
material handling
material heresy
material implication
materialisation
materialise
materialism
materialist
materialization
materialize
material logic
materially
materialness
material noun
material science
materials science
material support
material witness
metamaterial
micromaterial
multimaterial
nanomaterial
non-material
nonmaterial
positive material identification
postmaterial
postmaterialism
postmaterialist
raw material
reading material
shawl material
sociomaterial
source material
strategic material
supermaterial
time and material
tissue equivalent material
trimaterial
Voigt material
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَادِّيّ
roman: māddiyy
lang: Armenian
word: նյութական
roman: nyutʻakan
lang: Belarusian
word: матэрыя́льны
roman: materyjálʹny
lang: Bulgarian
word: материален
roman: materialen
lang: Bulgarian
word: веществен
roman: veštestven
lang: Catalan
word: material
lang: Czech
word: materiálový
lang: Danish
word: materiel
lang: Dutch
word: materieel
lang: Dutch
word: materiële
lang: Esperanto
word: materia
lang: Finnish
word: materiaalinen
lang: Finnish
word: aineellinen
lang: Galician
word: material
lang: German
word: materiell
lang: Greek
word: υλικός
roman: ylikós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὑλικός
roman: hulikós
lang: Hungarian
word: anyagi
lang: Ido
word: materiala
lang: Irish
word: ábhartha
lang: Italian
word: materiale
lang: Latin
word: corporeus
lang: Macedonian
word: материја́лен
roman: materijálen
lang: Māori
word: ōkiko
lang: Middle English
word: material
lang: Middle English
word: beestly
lang: Middle English
word: bestial
lang: Norwegian
word: materiell
lang: Polish
word: materialny
lang: Portuguese
word: material
lang: Romanian
word: material
lang: Russian
word: мате́риа́льный
roman: matériálʹnyj
lang: Spanish
word: material
lang: Swedish
word: materiell
lang: Swedish
word: compounds with materia c and material
lang: Ukrainian
word: матеріа́льний
roman: materiálʹnyj
lang: Volapük
word: stöfik
lang: Bulgarian
word: материа́л
roman: materiál
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 資料 /资料
roman: zīliào
lang: Danish
word: materiale
lang: Danish
word: stof
lang: Dutch
word: materiaal
lang: Finnish
word: aineisto
lang: French
word: matériel
lang: German
word: Material
lang: Hebrew
word: חומר
lang: Hebrew
word: חֹמֶר
roman: khómer
lang: Hungarian
word: anyag
lang: Ingrian
word: materiala
lang: Japanese
word: 資料
roman: shiryō
lang: Japanese
word: 題材
roman: daizai
lang: Korean
word: 자료
roman: jaryo
lang: Latin
word: verba scriptoris
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Material
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stoff
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَطْلَب
roman: matlab
lang: Portuguese
word: matéria
lang: Russian
word: материа́л
roman: materiál
lang: Spanish
word: menaje
lang: Swedish
word: material
lang: French
word: documentation