FromMiddle English material , fromLate Latin māteriālis , fromLatin māteria ( “ wood, material, substance ” ) , frommāter ( “ mother ” ) . Displaced nativeMiddle English andweorc, andwork ( “ material, matter ” ) (fromOld English andweorc ( “ matter, substance, material ” ) ).Doublet ofmateriel .
material (comparative morematerial ,superlative mostmaterial )
Having to do withmatter ;consisting of matter.This compound has a number of interestingmaterial properties.
Worldly , as opposed tospiritual .Antonym: spiritual Don't letmaterial concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
( law , accounting ) Significant .Antonym: immaterial You've made severalmaterial contributions to this project.
This is the mostmaterial fact in this lawsuit.
1685 March 20 (Gregorian calendar),John Evelyn , “[ Diary entry for 10 March 1685] ”, inWilliam Bray , editor,Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, [ … ] , 2nd edition, volume I, London:Henry Colburn , [ … ] ; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, [ … ] , published1819 ,→OCLC :discourse, which was alwaysmaterial , not trifling
1689 (indicated as1690 ) , [John Locke ], chapter 2, inAn Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. [ … ] , London: [ … ] Eliz[ abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, [ … ] ,→OCLC , book I,page 3 :I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are mostmaterial to our present purpose.
Terms derived frommaterial (adjective)
material (countable anduncountable ,plural materials )
Matter which may beshaped ormanipulated , particularly in making something.Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely usedmaterial for roads.
1820 ,Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature [2] , 6th edition, volume20 , Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page501 :In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elasticmaterials , and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones ”, inAmerican Scientist , volume100 , number 2, page128 :Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gemmaterials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
Textwritten for a specific purpose.We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough originalmaterial to headline.
Asample orspecimens forstudy .1992 , Rudolf M[ athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian , volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History ,→ISBN , page vii:With freshmaterial , taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that thematerial examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbariummaterial does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[ …]
Cloth to be made into agarment ;fabric .You'll need about a yard ofmaterial to make this.
1977 ,Agatha Christie ,An Autobiography , part II, London:Collins ,→ISBN , page 4:Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both inmaterial and in workmanship.
A person, orpeople collectively, who arequalified for a certain position or activity.boy/girlfriendmaterial
marriagematerial
We have lots of presidentialmaterial in various public offices.
2021 November 20, Alex Williams, “To Breed or Not to Breed?”, inThe New York Times [3] ,→ISSN :Before she married her husband, Kiersten Little considered him ideal fathermaterial .
Relateddata of various kinds, especially if collected as thebasis for adocument orbook .2013 June 14,Jonathan Freedland , “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted ”, inThe Guardian Weekly , volume189 , number 1, page18 :Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such privatematerial is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
Thesubstance that something is made or composed of. ( graphical user interface ) An element of adesign language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.( chess ) All of aplayer 'spieces andpawns on thechessboard .Terms derived frommaterial (noun)
matter
Afrikaans:materiaal (af) Albanian:material (sq) m ,lëndor (sq) m Arabic:مَادَّة (ar) f ( mādda ) Armenian:նյութ (hy) ( nyutʻ ) Azerbaijani:material ,maddə (az) Belarusian:матэрыя́л m ( materyjál ) Bengali:উপাদান (bn) ( upadan ) Bulgarian:материа́л (bg) m ( materiál ) Burmese:ပစ္စည်း (my) ( paccany: ) Catalan:material (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:物質 / 物质 (zh) ( wùzhì, wùzhí ) ,材料 (zh) ( cáiliào ) Czech:materiál (cs) m Danish:materiale (da) n Dutch:materiaal (nl) n ,grondstof (nl) f Esperanto:materialo (eo) Estonian:materjal Finnish:materiaali (fi) ,raaka-aine (fi) French:matériau (fr) ,matière (fr) Galician:material (gl) m Georgian:მასალა (ka) ( masala ) German:Material (de) n ,Rohstoff (de) m Greek:υλικό (el) n ( ylikó ) Ancient:ὕλη f ( húlē ) Hebrew:חומר / חֹמֶר (he) m ( khómer ) Hindi:सामग्री (hi) f ( sāmagrī ) Hungarian:anyag (hu) Icelandic:efni (is) n Ido:materio (io) Indonesian:bahan (id) Ingrian:materiala Irish:mianach m ,damhna m Old Irish:adbar n Italian:materiale (it) m Japanese:物質 (ja) ( ぶっしつ, busshitsu ) ,材料 (ja) ( ざいりょう, zairyō ) Kazakh:материал ( material ) Khmer:សម្ភារៈ ( sɑmphiərĕəʼ ) Korean:물질(物質) (ko) ( muljil ) ,재료(材料) (ko) ( jaeryo ) Kyrgyz:материал (ky) ( material ) Lao:ວັດສະດຸ ( wat sa du ) Latin:māteria (la) f Latvian:materiāls m Lithuanian:medžiaga (lt) f Luxembourgish:Material n Macedonian:материја́л m ( materijál ) Malay:bahan (ms) Maori:matū Mongolian:Cyrillic:материал (mn) ( material ) Norwegian:Bokmål:materiale (no) n Nynorsk:materiale n Persian:Dari:مَادَّه ( mādda ) Iranian Persian:مادِّه ( mâdde ) Polish:materiał (pl) m Portuguese:material (pt) m Romanian:material (ro) n ,materie (ro) f Russian:материа́л (ru) m ( materiál ) ,вещество́ (ru) n ( veščestvó ) Scottish Gaelic:adhbhar m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:матерѝја̄л m Roman:materìjāl (sh) m Slovak:materiál m Slovene:material (sl) m Spanish:material (es) m Swedish:material (sv) n Tagalog:materyal Tajik:материал ( material ) ,модда ( modda ) Thai:วัสดุ (th) ( wát-sà-dù ) Turkish:malzeme (tr) ,madde (tr) Turkmen:material Ukrainian:матеріа́л m ( materiál ) Urdu:مادَّہ m ( mādda ) Uyghur:ماتېرىيال ( matëriyal ) Uzbek:material (uz) ,modda (uz) Vietnamese:vật chất (vi) (物質 ) West Frisian:materiaal n
sample or specimens for study
cloth
Bulgarian:мате́рия (bg) f ( matérija ) Chinese:Mandarin:布 (zh) ( bù ) ,面料 (zh) ( miànliào ) Danish:stof (da) n Dutch:stof (nl) m ,naaigoed n Esperanto:ŝtofo Finnish:kangas (fi) French:étoffe (fr) f ,tissu (fr) m Georgian:please add this translation if you can German:Stoff (de) m Greek:ύφασμα (el) n ( ýfasma ) Italian:materiale (it) Japanese:素材 (ja) ( そざい, sozai ) ,生地 (ja) ( きじ, kiji ) ,布 (ja) ( ぬの, nuno ) Maori:papanga Mongolian:Cyrillic:даавуу (mn) ( daavuu ) Norwegian:Bokmål:stoff (no) n ,tøy (no) n Polish:materiał (pl) m Portuguese:tecido (pt) m ,pano (pt) m Romanian:stofă (ro) f ,material textil n ,pânză (ro) f Russian:материа́л (ru) m ( materiál ) ,мате́рия (ru) f ( matérija ) ,ткань (ru) f ( tkanʹ ) Scottish Gaelic:adhbhar m Swedish:material (sv) n
related data of various kinds collected as the basis for a document or book
substance that something is made or composed of
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material (third-person singular simple present materials ,present participle materialling ,simple past and past participle materialled )
( obsolete , transitive ) Toform frommatter ; tomaterialize .1642 , [Thomas Browne ], “(please specify the page) ”, inReligio Medici , London: [ … ] Andrew Crooke,→OCLC :I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it wasmaterialled unto life.
Borrowed fromLatin materiālis .
material m or f (masculine and feminine plural materials )
material (clarification of this definition is needed) material m (plural materials )
material (clarification of this definition is needed) FromLatin materialis .
material
material Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002 )Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary ][4] , Simferopol: Dolya,→ISBN material m (plural materiais )
material FromDutch materiaal .Doublet ofmateriel .
matérial (plural material -material )
material ( matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something ) FromLatin māteriālis ; equivalent tomatere +-al .
IPA (key ) : /matɛriˈaːl/ ,/maːtɛriˈaːl/ ,/maˈtɛːrial/ ,/matɛriˈɛːl/ ,/maˈtɛːriɛl/ material (plural and weak singular materiale )
Extant in matter or having physical form;material . Notsupernatural orspiritual ;regular ,conventional ,worldly . Being thephysical attributes orproperties of a thing. Affecting or modifying physicalmatter orattributes . ( rare ) Prominent ,significant .FromLate Latin materiale .
material n (definite singular materialet ,indefinite plural material or materialer ,definite plural materiala or materialene )
alternative form ofmateriale Borrowed fromLate Latin māteriālis , fromLatin māteria ( “ wood, material, substance ” ) , frommāter ( “ mother ” ) .
( Brazil ) IPA (key ) : /ma.te.ɾiˈaw/ [ma.te.ɾɪˈaʊ̯] ,( faster pronunciation ) /ma.teˈɾjaw/ [ma.teˈɾjaʊ̯]
Rhymes:-al ,-aw Hyphenation:ma‧te‧ri‧al material m (plural materiais )
material ;stuff ( the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object ) material ( sample or specimens for study ) footage ( amount of film produced ) ( education ) resources used in class2010 , Luiz Artur Ferrareto, Luciano Klöckner,E o rádio?: novos horizontes midiáticos , EDIPUCRS,→ISBN ,page130 :Os equipamentos utilizados (notebook , mesa de som, aparelhomini system - caixa de retorno, microfones e gravadores) eram escassos e insuficientes pois muitomaterial licitado pela Instituição ainda não havia chegado. Somente no segundo semestre de 2008 pode se contar com um computador exclusivo para as aulas de rádio, no qual foram instaladossoftware de programas de captação e edição de áudio. (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) tackle ;supplies ;gear ;rig ( objects collected for use in a particular activity ) material escolar ―schoolsupplies material de pesca ―fishinggear material m or f (plural materiais )
( chemistry ) material ( relating to or composed of matter ) ( religion ) material ;worldly ( relating to physical rather than spiritual matters ) Synonym: terreno ( of a person, derogatory ) materialistic ;consumeristic ( obsessed with consumer goods ) Synonyms: materialista ,consumista For quotations using this term, seeCitations:material .
Borrowed fromFrench matériel , fromLatin materialis . Bysurface analysis ,materie +-al .
material n (plural materiali )
material Borrowed fromLate Latin māteriālis .
IPA (key ) : /mateˈɾjal/ [ma.t̪eˈɾjal] Rhymes:-al Syllabification:ma‧te‧rial material m or f (masculine and feminine plural materiales )
material material m (plural materiales )
material material n
amaterial amatter , asubject (of study)