Materialize

Definition: Materialize

Materialize

Verb

1. Come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized".

Date "materialize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Synonyms: Materialize

Synonyms: happen (v), materialise (v). (additional references)

Antonym: dematerialize (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beginning	Come into existence, come into the world; make one's debut, take birth; burst forth, break out; spring up, spring forth, crop up, pop up, appear, materialize.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Materialize

English words defined with "materialize": curdling ♦ Materialized, Materializing ♦ Pragmatize. (references)

Specialty definitions using "materialize": COMMON SLANG, CUPID ♦ Failure. (references)

Etymologies containing "materialize": Pragmatize. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	They think they can distribute pamphlets and gold, and a vast monarchist army will materialize overnight. (Billion Dollar Brain; writing credit: Len Deighton; John McGrath)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Often, this is in the form of advertisements in which enticing promises are made, and patients then become even more demoralized when promised benefits fail to materialize. (references)
Business		The Electricity Act, however, will soon require amending if the proposed plans for reform are to materialize. (references)
		The second stage, full privatization, has yet to materialize although the privatization of joint ventures has progressed relatively quickly. (references)
		It is highly advisable to have a good agent/distributor "on the ground" to assist with marketing and to take advantage of situations as they materialize. (references)
Civil Liberties	Central African Republic	Although the opposition originally welcomed this promised access to the public media, in practice such access did not materialize. (references)
Economic History	Barbados	A strong local representative can place product and generate sales that otherwise may not materialize. (references)
	Nigeria	The vision of Health for All by the Year 2000, did not materialize in 2001 as there was little visible improvement in this sector. (references)
Human Rights	Colombia	In 1999 the Vice President enunciated the Government's human rights policy; however, despite improvements, some aspects of implementation have been slow to materialize, and there has been an overall increase in human rights violations by illegal armed groups since 1999. The Government's national human rights plan called for the respect, promotion, and assurance of human rights. (references)
Political Economy	PAKISTAN	A new law on plant breeders' rights has yet to materialize due to federal-provincial jurisdiction problems. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow -- of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work -- this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Materialize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 92.41% of the time. "Materialize" is used about 79 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	92.41%	73	39,105
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.59%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	79	N/A

Expression using "materialize": fail to materialize. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "materialize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		materializohem, realizohem (come true), konkretizoj (concretize, document), bëhem fakt. (various references)

Arabic		‏مدى جعل الشىء ماديا, ‏تحقق (ascertain, be realized, check, come true, enquire, fruition), ‏تجسد (embodiment, incarnation, materialization, shape), ‏جسد (body, bone, bulk, corpus, embody, externalize, frame, impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, model, mold, mould, personate, personify, reify, shape, substantiate). (various references)

Bulgarian		явявам се (appear, come, dawn, intervene, present, raise up, render, roll up, show, show up, walk), карам дух да се яви, въплъщавам (embody, externalize, impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, personify), осъществявам се (actualize, be realized, come about, eventuate), осъществявам (accomplish, achieve, carry into effect, carry through, embody, fulfil, fulfill, implement, incarnate, instrument, put into effect, realize), материализирам, идвам (accrue, arrive, come, hail, mature, pop along, pop over, reach, rise, roll around, roll in, roll up, set in). (various references)

Chinese		实现 (Embodied, Embody, Embodying, fruition, materialise, Materialized, Materializing). (various references)

Czech		zhmotnit. (various references)

Dutch		materialiseren (materialise). (various references)

Esperanto		materiiĝi (materialise). (various references)

Farsi		مادی کردن , صورت خارجی بخودگرفتن , جامه عمل بخودپوشیدن . (various references)

Finnish		toteutua (be fulfilled, be realized, come off, come true, work out), aineellistua. (various references)

French		matérialiser, se matérialiser, se concrétiser, prendre une forme matérielle. (various references)

German		materialisieren, wahr werden, sich verwirklichen (be fulfilled, be realized, be translated into action, become a reality, come true, fulfill oneself), sich materialisieren, erscheinen (apparition, appear, appearance, arrival, come out, emerge, manifest, occurence, perform, publication, seem, to appear, to turn up, tu turn up, turn out, turn up), auftauchen (appear, appearance, arise, bob up, break, come up, crop out, emerge, emersion, figure, pop up, show up, surface, to appear, to emerge, to turn up, turn up). (various references)

Greek		πραγματοποιώ (accomplish, bring to pass, carry out, fulfil, realize, to encash, to realize), υποποιώ, υλοποιώ (implement). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ת�'שם (come true), ל�"�'שים (carry out, consummate, fulfill, implement, realize). (various references)

Hungarian		megvalósul (be realized, come true, to come to fruition, to come true, to materialize), megvalósít (accomplish, achieve, actualize, attain, effect, effectuate, execute, implement, put into effect, put into practice, realize, to attain, to bring into effect, to bring to effect, to bring to fruition, to effect, to effectuate, to flesh out, to make good, to materialize, to realise, to realize, to work out). (various references)

Indonesian		mengejawantahkan, mengejawantah (become visible), terwujud. (various references)

Italian		materializzarsi (materialise), materializzare (materialise), avverarsi (come true, materialise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		顕われる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize), 表れる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize), 表われる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize), 現れる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize), 現われる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あらわれる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize). (various references)

Korean		구체�"하십시�" (materialise). (various references)

Manx		goaill corp, cur corporaght da, cheet gys kione. (various references)

Pig Latin		aterializemay

Portuguese		materializar (reify), realizar (accomplish, achieve, actualize, attain, celebrate, consummate, create, do, effect, execute, fulfil, fulfill, perform, produce, realize, render, to encash, to realize, transact, work out), realização (accomplishment, achievement, acting, actualization, attainment, completion, consummation, executioner, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementation, performance, prosecutor, realization, transaction, working out), corporificar-se. (various references)

Romanian		materializa (objectify, reify), se materializa, da formã materialã, concretiza (concretize, effect, exteriorize, objectify, reify), întrupa (incarnate, incorporate), întruchipa (body forth, embody, incarnate, incorporate, objectify, personify, represent, typify). (various references)

Russian		осуществляться (come true). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		materijalizovati, ostvariti (accomplish, achieve, actualize, bring about, carry out, compass, cotton on, effect, effectuate, objectify, perform, realize). (various references)

Spanish		materializar (reify), tomar forma visible, realizarse (come about, come true, happen, occur). (various references)

Swedish		materialisera (reify), ta form (gel, jell), förverkliga (actualize, implement, materialze, realize), dyka upp (crop up, emerge, loom, present oneself, rise, turn up), bli till (come into existence, materialze). (various references)

Turkish		maddileştirmek (externalize), gerçekleştirmek (achieve, actualize, carry out, carry through, effect, effectuate, execute, follow out, follow through, make real, practice, practise, put into practice, realize, substantiate, verify), gerçekleşmek (actualize, come true), cisimleştirmek (embody, reify). (various references)

Ukranian		матеріалізуватися, матеріалізувати (reify), здійснюватися, здійснювати (actualize, bring to pass, compass, effect, effectuate, embody, execute, exercise, implement, make, perpetrate, practise, put into practice, realize, wage). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "materialize": materialized, materializer, materializers, materializes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "materialize": dematerialize, immaterialize, rematerialize. (additional references)
	Words containing "materialize": dematerialized, dematerializes, immaterialized, immaterializes, rematerialized, rematerializes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Materialize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: materialis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "materialize" (pronounced muti"rēulī'z)
7	-i" r ē u l ī' z	serialize.
6	-r ē u l ī' z	editorialize, industrialize, memorialize.
5	-ē u l ī' z	trivialize.
4	-u l ī' z	actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demobilize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, destabilize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize.
3	-l ī' z	butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-i-l-m-r-t-z"
	-3 letters: itemizer, laterize, material, materiel, metalize, realtime, timelier.
	-4 letters: airmail, airtime, amirate, amreeta, atelier, emerita, emeriti, emirate, itemize, lazaret, limiter, maleate, maltier, marital, marlite, martial, mealier, meatier, miltier, ramilie, realize.
	-5 letters: aerate, aerial, amrita, armlet, atrial, elater, elmier, imaret, lamiae, lariat, latria, lazier, limier, mailer, malate, mazier, mealie, meatal, melter, metier, milter, mitier, mitral.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-i-l-m-r-t-z"
	+1 letter: materialized, materializer, materializes.
	+2 letters: dematerialize, immaterialize, materializers, reacclimatize, rematerialize.
	+3 letters: dematerialized, dematerializes, immaterialized, immaterializes, reacclimatized, reacclimatizes, rematerialized, rematerializes.
	+4 letters: dematerializing, rematerializing.
	+5 letters: demineralization.
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