Meaning of material | Babel Free

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1. Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical
2. 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.
   countable, uncountable
3. A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
   collective, countable, sometimes, uncountable
4. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily
5. to a great or important extent. Circumstances have changed materially. wesenlik ماديّاً важно consideravelmente výrazně, silně erheblich afgørende σημαντικάsensiblemente, considerablemente oluliselt اساسی merkittävästi sensiblement בְּאוֹפֶן מַהוּתִי भौतिक, द्रव्य पदार्थ bitno lényegesen, jelentősen secara besar-besaran merkjanlega sostanzialmente 大いに 상당히 iš esmės, materialiai būtiski secara besar-besaran essentieelvesentlig, på en avgjørende måte w poważnym stopniu اساسى،ارزښتناك considerave...
6. Apparatus for doing or making something.
   countable, plural, uncountable, usually
7. Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical
8. verwesenliking تَجَسُّد، تَحْقيق осъществяване materialização realizace die Verkörperung materialisering υλοποίηση, πραγματοποίησηmaterialización teostumine مادی سازی aineistuma matérialisationהתגשמות मूर्तिकरण materijalizacija, ostvarenje megtestesítés; megvalósulás penjelmaan holdgun; það að verða raunverulegur materializzazione 具体化 물질화, 실현 tapimas realiu, materializacija materializācija; īstenošanās penjelmaan materialisatievirkeliggjøring urzeczywistnienie, materializacja مادى پالنه mater...
9. 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.
   countable, uncountable
10. Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial
11. The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made.
12. Cloth to be made into a garment; woven fabric.
    countable, uncountable
13. Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic
14. Something, such as an idea or information, that is to be refined and made or incorporated into a finished effort: material for a comedy.
15. The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
    countable, uncountable
16. materials Tools or apparatus for the performance of a given task: writing materials.
17. An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
    countable, uncountable
18. Yard goods or cloth.
19. All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
    countable, uncountable
20. A person who is qualified or suited for a position or activity: The members of the board felt that she was vice-presidential material.
21. The ingredients for making whisky punch.
    Ireland, archaic, countable, uncountable
22. Of, relating to, or composed of matter.
23. The materiel of an army.
    countable, rare, uncountable
24. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; bodily: "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens" (Theodore Roosevelt).
25. Things that are material.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
26. Of or concerned with the physical as distinct from the intellectual or spiritual: "Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Equivalents

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.)”

“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.”

“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.”

“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[…]”

“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.”

“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.”

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