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| 1. | the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material. |
| 2. | anything that serves as crude or raw matter to be used or developed: Wood pulp is the raw material from which paper is made. |
| 3. | any constituent element. |
| 4. | a textile fabric: material for a dress. |
| 5. | a group of ideas, facts, data, etc., that may provide the basis for or be incorporated into some integrated work: to gather material for a history of North Carolina; to write material for a comedy show. |
| 6. | materials, the articles or apparatus needed to make or do something: writing materials. |
| 7. | a person considered as having qualities suited to a particular sphere of activity: The boy's teachers did not think he was college material. |
| 8. | formed or consisting of matter; physical; corporeal: the material world. |
| 9. | relating to, concerned with, or involving matter: material forces. |
| 10. | pertaining to the physical rather than the spiritual or intellectual aspect of things: material comforts. |
| 11. | pertaining to or characterized by an undue interest in corporeal things; unspiritual. |
| 12. | of substantial import; of much consequence; important: Your support will make a material difference in the success of our program. |
| 13. | pertinent or essential (usually fol. by to): a question not material to the subject at hand. |
| 14. | Law. likely to influence the determination of a case: material evidence. |
| 15. | Philosophy. of or pertaining to matter as distinguished from form. |
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