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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



... the audiences of London might consent to forgo a little of the pleasure that comes from watching athletic youths covered with grease-paint and gyrating in the limelight, and, by expressing their readiness to see those necessary evolutions carried out by older men, liberate so much good material to join the Army. Such is the power of the make-up (I am told) that a man of fifty could easily be arranged to look sufficiently like a man of half his age, at any rate without imperilling the success of the entertainment from the point of ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 • Various
... the Expeditionary Army was thrown into France. Its equipment was ready and in all details fully worthy of German military organization. From arms to boots—the latter not long since a scandal of shoddy workmanship—only the best material and skill had been accepted. Its transport proved the genius of Lord Kitchener in that brand of military service. The railways leading to the ports of embarkation, together with passenger steamships—some of them familiar in American ports—were commandeered as early ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... child had never forgotten the adult baptism, though she had been little more than four years old at the time; but she was one of those little ones to whom allegory seems a natural element, with which they have more affinity than with the material world. ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... stipulation for the possession of the lands granted, inasmuch as they were subject to the conditions of cultivation and occupancy, and a failure to comply with the conditions was considered by the tribunals of the United States as a most material circumstance in the determination of the right of the grantees to a confirmation of their claims. I held, therefore, with the concurrence of my associates, that the grantees, whether they were to be considered as having a legal or an equitable right ...
— Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State • Stephen Field; George C. Gorham
... In the material conditions of Icelandic life in the "Saga Age" there was all the stuff that was required for heroic narrative. This was recognised by the story-tellers, and they made the most of it. It must be admitted that there is some monotony in the circumstances, but ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker


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