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noun
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the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
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anything that serves as crude or raw matter to be used or developed: Wood pulp is the raw material from which paper is made.
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any constituent element.
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a textile fabric: material for a dress.
5.
EXPANDa 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.
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materials, the articles or apparatus needed to make or do something: writing materials.
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COLLAPSEa person considered as having qualities suited to a particular sphere of activity: The boy's teachers did not think he was college material.
adjective
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formed or consisting of matter; physical; corporeal: the material world.
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relating to, concerned with, or involving matter: material forces.
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pertaining to the physical rather than the spiritual or intellectual aspect of things: material comforts.
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pertaining to or characterized by an undue interest in corporeal things; unspiritual.
12.
EXPANDof substantial import; of much consequence; important: Your support will make a material difference in the success of our program.
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pertinent or essential (usually followed by to): a question not material to the subject at hand.
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Law. likely to influence the determination of a case: material evidence.
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COLLAPSEPhilosophy. of or pertaining to matter as distinguished from form.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Related forms
ma·te·ri·al·ness, noun
pre·ma·te·ri·al, adjective
qua·si-ma·te·ri·al, adjective
qua·si-ma·te·ri·al·ly, adverb
su·per·ma·te·ri·al, noun
EXPANDAntonyms
8. incorporeal. 12. unimportant.
8. incorporeal. 12. unimportant.
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