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Material Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Material?
[n]
[n] things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials" [n] 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" [n] a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material" [n] 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" [adj] 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 [adj] derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe" [adj] having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett [adj] 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" [adj] 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 [adj] concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts" Synonyms | Synonyms for Material: bodied | bodily | cloth | corporal | corporate | corporeal | crucial | embodied | fabric | incarnate | physical | real | reincarnate | relevant | stuff | substantial | tangible | textile | touchable | worldly Related Terms | Find terms related to Material: a propos | ab ovo | absolute | abundance | accumulation | actual | ad rem | Adamic | adducible | admissible | air | amassment | animal | animalistic | apparatus | appertaining | applicable | applying | apposite | appreciable | appropriate | apropos | asphalt | atom | atomic particles | atoms | attestative | attestive | authentic | backlog | ballpoint pen | basal | based on | basic | beastlike | beastly | bedrock | being | belonging | bestial | bibliography | big | big-league | big-name | big-time | bigwig | bigwigged | blackboard | blacktop | bodily | body of knowledge | body of learning | brick | brutal | brute | brute matter | brutish | budget | building block | canvas | cardinal | carnal | carnal-minded | carpeting | central | certain | chalk | chemical element | Circean | circumstantial | clapboard | cloth | coarse | cobblestone | collection | commissariat | commissary | component | components | conclusive | concrete | consequential | considerable | constituent | constituents | constitutive | convincing | core | cork tile | cornucopia | corporal | corporeal | crayon | cumulation | cumulative | cyclopedia | damning | data | decisive | determinative | distillate | distillation | documentary | documentation | documented | documents | double-barreled | drapery | dump | earth | earthly | earthshaking | earthy | element | elemental | elementary | elementary particle | elementary unit | elements | elixir | encyclopedia | entity | equipment | eraser | essence | essential | etoffe | evidential | evidentiary | ex parte | eye-witness | fabric | facts | factual | fallen | felt | fiber glass | figures | final | fire | firsthand | flag | flagging | flagstone | fleshly | flooring | focal | Formica | founded on | fundamental | fundamental particle | gear | germane | gist | goods | grand | great | gross | grounded on | gut | habiliments | heap | hearsay | heart | heavyweight | high-powered | hoard | hyle | hylic | hypostasis | implicit | important | in point | incontrovertible | indicative | indispensable | indisputable | individual | information | ingredient | ink | inkhorn | inkstand | inkwell | inventory | invisible ink | involving | irrefutable | irresistible | kernel | lace | lapsed | larder | lay | lead pencil | life-and-death | life-or-death | linoleum | literature | lore | macadam | machinery | major | marrow | Masonite | mass | material world | materialistic | materiality | materials | materiate | materiel | matter | meaningful | means | meat | medium | molecule | momentous | monad | mundane | munitions | name | napery | natural world | nature | nib | nonspiritual | notes | nub | nuncupative | object | objective | of the essence | of vital importance | orgiastic | original | outfit | overwhelming | palpable | pantile | paper | papers | paraphernalia | parquet | pavement | pavestone | paving | pen | perceptible | pertaining | pertinent | phenomenal | Philistine | physical | physical world | pile | pith | plasterboard | plenitude | plenty | plenum | plume | plywood | ponderable | postlapsarian | presumptive | primal | primary | primitive | probative | provisionment | provisions | publications | quill | quintessence | radical | rag | rations | real | reed | relevant | reliable | repertoire | repertory | research | resources | rick | roofage | roofing | roofing paper | sap | secular | self-important | sensible | sensual | serious | shake | sheathing board | sheeting | shingle | siding | significant | silk | slate | solid | somatic | soul | spirit | spun glass | stack | statistics | stencil | stock | stock-in-trade | stockpile | stone | store | store of knowledge | stores | stuff | style | stylograph | stylus | substance | substantial | substantive | substratum | suggestive | sum and substance | superior | supplies | supply on hand | sure | swinish | sympathetic ink | symptomatic | system of knowledge | table | tablet | tackle | tackling | tangible | tar paper | telling | temporal | terrestrial | textile | textile fabric | texture | thatch | the four elements | tile | tilestone | tiling | tissu | tissue | to the point | to the purpose | treasure | treasury | treasury of information | true | underlying | unit of being | unspiritual | valid | veneer | vital | wainscoting | wallboard | walling | wallpaper | water | weatherboard | weave | web | weft | weighty | wood | woof | wool | worldly | world-shaking See Also | aba | abradant | abrasive | abrasive material | acrylic | adhesive | adhesive material | Aertex | alpaca | animal material | applicant | applier | artefact | artifact | atom | baize | basket weave | batik | batiste | belting | bimetal | boucle | broadcloth | brocade | buckram | builder | bunting | calico | cambric | camelhair | camel's hair | camlet | camo | camouflage | canopy | Canton flannel | canvas | canvass | cashmere | cerecloth | challis | chambray | chemical | chenille | chiffon | chino | chino cloth | chintz | coating | color | coloring material | colour | colouring material | composite material | conductor | contaminant | contamination | copy | cord | corduroy | cotton | cotton cloth | cotton flannel | crape | crepe | cretonne | crinoline | damask | denim | detergent builder | detritus | diamagnet | diamonte | diaper | dielectric | dimity | discharge | doeskin | drapery | duck | duffel | duffle | dungaree | dust | earth | edging | elastic | elastomer | emission | equipment | etamin | etamine | faille | felt | fiber | fiber | fibre | fibre | fill | filling | floc | floccule | fluff | foam | ground | HAZMAT | homogenate | impregnation | info | information | insulator | jean | lubricant | lubricating substance | lubricator | material | matter | mineral | molecule | mote | nonconductor | packaging | packing | packing material | paper | particle | plant material | radioactive material | railing | raw material | rehash | rind | rock | roofing | sealing material | sorbate | sorbent | sorbent material | speck | staple | stone | substance | thickener | thickening | toner | translucent substance | transparent substance | vernix | vernix caseosa | vulcanized fiber | wadding | waste | waste material | waste matter | waste product Material In Webster's Dictionary \Ma*te"ri*al\, a. [L. materialis, fr. materia stuff,
matter: cf. F. mat['e]riel. See {Matter}, and cf.
{Mat['E]riel}.]
1. Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical;
as, material substance or bodies.
The material elements of the universe. --Whewell.
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. --Evelyn.
I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down
only such as are most material to our present
purpose. --Locke.
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.
\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. \Ma*te"ri*al\, v. t. To form from matter; to materialize. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. |
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