Material

Definition: Material

Material

Adjective

1. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts".

2. Derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe".

3. 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".

4. 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.

5. Having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett.

6. 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.

Noun

1. 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".

2. Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be reworked into a finished form; "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography".

3. Things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials".

4. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.

5. A person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "material" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Material \Ma*te"ri*al\, adjective. [Latin materialis, from materia stuff, matter: compare to French mat['e]riel. See Matter, and compare to Mat['E]riel.]. (references)

Satire

Metallurgy

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Material

Evidence

Witness, indicator, hostile witness; eyewitness, earwitness, material witness, state's evidence; deponent; sponsor; cojuror.

Signature, seal; (identification); exhibit, material evidence, objective evidence.

Idea

Noun: subject of thought, material for thought; food for the mind, mental pabulum.

Importance

Adjective: important; of importance; Noun: momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty; (influential); of note; (repute); notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable; worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring, eventful.

Insulation, Fire extinction

{ant. of } insulation, incombustible material, noncombustible material; fire retardant, flame retardant; fire wall, fire door.

MATERIALITY

Matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame.

Adjective: material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic, somatoscopic; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial.

Materials

Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber.

Nonpreparation

Rough copy; (plan); germ; raw material.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Material

Albanian (carnal, copy, fleshly, material, matter, physical, stock, stuff, worldly), Catalan (data, material), German (blurb, data, evidence, makings, material, matter, ordnance, stuff), Portuguese (brutish, corporeal, data, gear, incarnate, material, materialistic, materials, metals, physical, stuff, worldly), Romanian (cloth, copy, corporeal, earthly, economic, fabric, financial, mass, material, matter, palpable, physical, real, sensual, stuff, substantial, tissue), Spanish (data, equipment, material, objective, physical, true), Swedish (data, material, stuff).

I prefer to do my own material. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

The quaint houses of rice paper, sir: they were made of paper because there was no other material available (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley)

Listen, looking at it very simply musicology and ethnically, the Rutles were essentially Imperical maleonglece of a rhythmically radical yet verbally passé and temporally transcended lyrically content welded with historically innovative melodical material transposed and transmogrified by the ankus of the Rutland ethic experience which elevated them from essentially alpha exponents of in essence merely beta potential harmonic material into the prime cultural exponents of Aloin condensic comic standard form (The Rutles; writing credit: Eric Idle)

Yesterday the material in that container was giving a danger-point radiation reading (X the Unknown; writing credit: Jimmy Sangster)

Yeah, the guy's Ph.D material alright (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Though his heart was once real, now material has filled (Deception; performing artist: Blackalicious)

So much hope for material things (Giving Him Something He Can Feel; performing artist: En Vogue)

'Cause we're living in a material world ("Material Girl"; performing artist: Madonna)

Honey I ain't impressed with those material things ((It's Just) The Way That You Love Me; performing artist: Paula Abdul)

The Material Witness (1965)

Raw Material (1955)

Exibição de Material de Guerra (1927)

And Loading the Material on the Cars Demonstrating the Action of the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Machine in Unloading a Schooner of Iron Ore (1900)

Leichtsinnig - Walter Weer Material (1990)

Material Girl (performing artist: Madonna)

Spirits In The Material World (performing artist: The Police)

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References

• A&A Material Corp: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Allied Material Corp: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Companion Building Material (Holdings) Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Building Material Holdings Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Marubeni Construction Material Lease Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The fissile material cut-off debate : a bibliographical survey (reference)

• The Affluent Spirit : Lessons in Spiritual and Material Abundance : Including the Allegory Ra'Ayon's Bridge (reference)

• Exploring and Treating Acquisitive Desire: Living in the Material World (reference)

• The Architecture of All Abundance: Creating a Successful Life in the Material World (reference)

• The Courage to Be Rich: Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bac - Bar Admissions Course Material (reference)

• Background Material And Data On Major Programs Within The Jurisdiction Of The Committtee On Ways & Means (reference)

• Shikiszi Kyokai Shi = Journal Of The Japan Society Of Colour Material (reference)

• Material Handling Distribution (reference)

• Hazardous Material Alert - Electronic Mail Delivery (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• French & Saunders - Living in a Material World (reference)

• Careers: Transportation & Material Moving Occupations (reference)

• Flexible Material Handling (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Living in the Material World (reference)

• Original Pirate Material [ENHANCED] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Belkin Broadway Trolley Case 1680-D Ballistic Material (reference)

• Lexington Avenue Laptop Case 1680-d Ballistic Material (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• FoodSaver 11-Inch by 18-Foot Continuous Roll Bag Material, Package of 2, by Tilia (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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This schematic illustration shows how a human therapeutic gene is inserted into a deactivated mouse retrovirus. The retrovirus then attaches to and empties its genetic material into a patient's cell (in the laboratory). The therapeutic human gene is integrated into the patient's DNA and replaces the "defective" gene, in the treatment for ADA. See artwork: GR-10. Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist).

This is a scanning electron microscope image from normal circulating human blood. One can see red blood cells, several white blood cells including lymphocytes, a monocyte, a neutrophil, and many small disc-shaped platelets. Red cells are nonnucleated, and contain hemoglobin, containing iron an important protein which allows the cell to carry oxygen to other parts of the body. They also carry away carbon dioxide from the lungs. The infection-fighting white blood cells, are classified in 2 main groups: granular and agranular. Granulocytes are formed in bone marrow, agranulocytes are produced by lymph nodes and spleen. There are two types of agranulocytes: lymphocytes, fight disease by producing antibodies and thus destroying foreign material, and monocytes. Platelets are tiny cells formed in bone marrow and are necessary for blood clotting. Credit: Bruce Wetzel (photographer). Harry Schaefer (phot.

Buboes are due to the swelling of lymph nodes after they've absorbed infective material as seen here in a case of plague. Credit: CDC.

Normal iron stores are seen as dark blue-staining material in the bone marrow. A person unable to maintain a balanced, iron-rich diet may suffer from some degree of Iron Deficiency Anemia, or IDA. Credit: CDC.

A star 40 times more massive than the Sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In ... Credit: NASA.

The highest velocity material expelled in a cataclysmic, stellar explosion 10 years ago has ... Credit: NASA.

Natural marsh area adjacent to dredged material deposition area - Open area will be colonized by plants and become productive habitat. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Tabby ruins at Chocolate on the northwest side of the island. Tabby refers to the building material which is a durable cement-like mixture of equal parts of water, sand, shell, and lime. These ruins are part of an antebellum plantation that was deserted following the Civil War. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Launch 15 transporting material for a signal on a gray day. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Immersing specimen material in liquid nitrogen to preserve for future studies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And as in material, so also in intellectual production. (reference)

Such arms, munitions and war material will be destroyed or rendered useless. (reference)

The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. (reference)

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1932)

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Not one of them had the power of removal, or of effecting any material change of society

These supplied material for petty activity to a mind that would otherwise have been eaten up with rust

The business had always been dull in consequence of the high price of the raw material, which reacted upon the manufacture

It was a grave and ordered and passionless life that awaited him, a life without material cares

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent

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Health

A child receives genetic material from each parent. (references)

It concludes with a list of additional activities and reading material. (references)

This technique involves injection of small amounts of radioactive material. (references)

Business

He was denied reading material. (references)

Other important factors are material and structure. (references)

Pure cotton remains the main material for the pile fabric. (references)

Children

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Obstruction by politicians and government officials has slowed international efforts to remove discriminatory material from textbooks and enact other needed reforms. (references)

Egypt

The Government also seeks to increase the public's awareness of the capabilities of persons with disabilities in television programming, the print media, and in educational material in public schools. (references)

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

No warrant is required to seize such material. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

The Building Material market for the Housing Industry. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

No paper mills produce raw paper material in Côte d'Ivoire. (references)

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is a consumer, but not a producer of such material. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

The INI also distributes legal, educational, and informational material in indigenous languages. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The camp receives a high level of material assistance and is generally comfortable and well run. (references)

Ghana

The integrity of the legal system is compromised by a severe lack of financial, human, and material resources. (references)

Minorities

Turkey

Islamist journals frequently publish anti-Semitic material. (references)

Ukraine

The procuracy warned certain publications against publishing anti-Semitic material. (references)

Netherlands

With the proliferation of Internet web sites, the dissemination of racial and discriminatory material on Internet also has increased. (references)

Political Economy

Eritrea

Principal imports include machinery, spare parts, food, and military material. (references)

CHILE

State enterprises generally purchase at the lowest possible price, regardless of the source of the material. (references)

MALAYSIA

Like import duties, however, this sales tax is not applied to raw material and machinery used in export production. (references)

Political Rights

East Timor

However, prior to its dissolution in the months preceding the CNRT received material support and derived legitimacy from its close relations with UNTAET; other parties did not enjoy the same advantages. (references)

Belgium

The regional governments are charged with matters that directly affect the geographical regions and the material well-being of their residents, such as commerce and trade, public works, and environmental policy. (references)

Central African Republic

Although the CEMI included representatives from many political parties on its board, persons loyal to the President controlled it. The Government explicitly rejected suggestions by elements of the international community, which provided material and financial support for the election, that the executive branch of the Government not involve itself in the management of the electoral process. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Advertising material is subject to duty when imported into Argentina. (references)

Sri Lanka

GST is not due on raw material imports to businesses located within free trade zones. (references)

New Zealand

Publications, films, audio recordings, and computer disks are restricted for objectionable material. (references)

Travel

Chad

Material translated into Chadian Arabic is usually not necessary. (references)

Guatemala

Promotional material should be in Spanish and emphasize U.S. origin. (references)

Sri Lanka

Temporary entry for exhibition material is allowed under the Carnet system of the International Chamber of Commerce. (references)

Women

Papua New Guinea

The willingness of some communities to settle incidents of rape through material compensation rather than criminal prosecution makes the crime difficult to combat. (references)

Taiwan

In March the Ministry of Education initiated a program to promote equal educational opportunities for both sexes, to include units on family life, relations between the sexes, and equal opportunity rights in educational material at all levels. (references)

Czech Republic

The Police Academy and secondary police schools have introduced, into both the introductory and continuing education curriculums, instructional material to improve the identification and investigation of domestic violence and sexual abuse cases and to sensitize police to the treatment of victims. (references)

Worker Rights

Lithuania

The Ministry prepared informational material on sexual abuse against children for teachers and parents. (references)

Moldova

It produced antitrafficking educational material, provided counseling to victims, and maintained a hot line for those in need of advice. (references)

Poland

In 2000 the Government prosecuted 198 cases under Article 204, which prohibits luring persons into prostitution, and 13 cases under Article 253, which pertains to trafficking in persons and organizing adoptions for material benefit. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "material": abrasive material ♦ absorbent material ♦ active material ♦ adhesive material ♦ adsorbent material ♦ adsorbing material ♦ air MAterial COmmand compiler ♦ ammunition and toxic material open space ♦ animal material ♦ artillery material ♦ basic material ♦ bedding material ♦ biomolecular material ♦ bonding material ♦ buffer material ♦ building material ♦ cementitious material ♦ coated material ♦ coherent material ♦ cohesive material ♦ coloring material ♦ colouring material ♦ combustible material ♦ comparison material ♦ composite material ♦ contrast material ♦ conventional material ♦ corrugating liner material ♦ covering material ♦ create from raw material ♦ curriculum material ♦ deposited material ♦ detergent material ♦ detrital material ♦ direct material ♦ dissolved material ♦ enriched material ♦ explosive material ♦ fencing material ♦ fill material ♦ filling material ♦ fluorescent material ♦ flux material ♦ fluxing material ♦ foam material ♦ Formed material ♦ genetic material ♦ granular material ♦ granulated material ♦ group 4 material ♦ group four material ♦ group IV material ♦ hazardous material incident response ♦ high risk material ♦ illustrative material ♦ imported material ♦ incendiary material ♦ inflammable material ♦ instructional material ♦ insulating material ♦ insurance against material damage to a motor vehicle ♦ intrinsic material ♦ laminated material ♦ length of material ♦ lining material ♦ loose material ♦ losses in manpower and material ♦ made of transparent material ♦ magnetic material encoded data ♦ material as needed ♦ material body ♦ material breach ♦ material cause ♦ material comforts ♦ material control ♦ material control supervisor ♦ material evidence ♦ material fatigue ♦ material goods ♦ material possession ♦ material program code ♦ material recovery ♦ material resource ♦ material Resource Planning ♦ material return authorization number ♦ material supply ♦ material testing reactor ♦ material transfer agreement ♦ material witness ♦ optically active material ♦ optically transparent material ♦ packing material ♦ paramagnetic material ♦ paving material ♦ phase change material ♦ photochromic material ♦ photographic material ♦ piece of material ♦ plant material ♦ polycrystalline TFT material ♦ priming material. Additional references.

Beginning with "material": material-dg, material-in, material-ismo, material-portraits, material-spiritual, material-technical, material-type.

Ending with "material": non-material, raw-material, source-material.

Containing "material": raw-material source.

Afrikaans

materieel. (various references)

Albanian

material (carnal, copy, fleshly, matter, physical, stock, stuff, worldly), stof (cloth, coating, drapery, fabric), lëndë e parë (raw material, staple, stock), lëndë (copy, course, matter, stuff, subject, substance, theme), informacion (data, despatch, dispatch, dope, information, inquiry, light), cohë (cloth, drapery, fabric). (various references)

Arabic 

مادة (substance), ‏مادي (bodily, concrete, corporeal, earthly, materialistic, not abstract, physical, real, substantial, tangible), ‏مادة (article, item, materiality, matter, substance), ‏هام (big, considerable, earnest, expatiate, historic, significant, some, worthy), ‏لوازم (accessories, materials), ‏غير روحي (carnal), ‏جوهري (cardinal, essential, fundamental, intrinsic, intrinsical, main, overriding, pivotal, prime, quintessential, radical, substantial), ‏جسدي (bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, glandule, physical, sensual, somatic), ‏أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling), ‏أدوات (apparatus, paraphernalia, stuff, tools, vibes), ‏ثوب (cloth, dress, garment, gown, model, robe, smock, vest, vestment, vesture, weft), ‏دنيوي (earthly, laity, materialistic, mundane, secular, temporal, terrestrial, worldly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

веществен (corporeal, fleshly, substantive, tangible), плътски (animal, carnal, fleshly, sensual), предметен (objective), елементи (accidence, components, stuff), земен (earthbound, earthly, earthy, ground, land, mundane, planetary, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, terrain, terraneous, terrene, worldly), материал (matter, medium, stuff), материалистичен (materialistic, worldly), материален (hylic, outward, physical, tangible, worldly), материя (fabric, matter, stuff, substance, textile, wear), плат (cloth, coating, fabric, textile, wear), важен (consequential, dignified, fatal, grave, importable, important, magisterial, major, mighty, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line, weighty), съществен (essential, formal, fundamental, integral, integrant, intimate, intrinsic, mea