material
IPA: mʌtˈɪriʌɫ
noun
- Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
- Text written for a specific purpose.
- A sample or specimens for study.
- Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric.
- A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity.
- Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
- The substance that something is made or composed of.
- (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
- (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.
adjective
- Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
- Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
- (law, accounting) Significant.
Examples of "material" in Sentences
- This did not materialize.
- That idea was not materialized.
- The materialism is overpowering.
- Materialism is the maximum of ugliness.
- Is the material in the article accurate
- The material was made to affix items on the floor.
- I also object to the blanket removal of all the material.
- It forms the substratum of all material in a non material way.
- In use, the chisel is forced into the material to cut the material.
- Keep the riot material and also the race material on the Boulder pages
- Circumventing access control on public domain material is not a violation of the statute.
- Today, almost all public domain material is bundled with newer, copyrighted material on DVDs, such as extra features or a new soundtrack.
- And so with all material conditions; I say _material_, for in the spiritual life we see these things more truly as they are, and not as they appear.
- Though the Iron Man writers are clearly talented, getting a complete grip on source material from the creators of that material is paramount to success.
- If the pigeonholes are arranged in alphabetical order, for example, he may find all related material, _provided he knows the name of every related group of material_, even though very similar things may bear names as far apart as A and Z.
- Most of us smaller companies and medium sized ones are buying our pre-preg material from a handful of suppliers like Hexcel, Toray, Newport, and that material is typically pre-preg (previously impregnated with epoxy resin) rather than dry cloth that is wetted on site.
- Let us then be contented to know that the soul moves itself, modifies itself, in consequence of material causes, which act upon it which give it activity: from whence the conclusion may he said to flow consecutively, that all its operations, all its faculties, prove that it is itself _material_.
- United States, or no existing nation (relatively to the age), has never attained the point of artistic, æsthetic, social or material perfection of the Greco-Roman States; yet they fell, as I have just said, to slavery and ruin, not so much from the blows of the barbarians, as from the dissolving influence of a _material civilization_, resulting inevitably in public and private impotence and demoralization.