Definition of material in English:

material

noun məˈtɪərɪəlməˈtɪriəl

mass noun

1The matter from which a thing is or can be made.
goats can eat more or less any plant material
count noun highly flammable materials
Example sentencesExamples
- Try to remove all large rocks, pebbles, and plant material from the soil.
- At higher elevations on these mountains, the parent material is acid crystalline rock.
- Any samples of hair, blood or other organic material removed from the cars will be matched up against a national database.
- Many of the males and a few of the females wear stuff that looks like leather, but most is woven animal fur or plant material of kinds I do not know.
- Efforts to extinguish the blaze were hampered by the large amount of flammable material inside the building.
- A wine-like beverage can be made from almost any fruit, berry, or other plant material containing sugar.
- The officer saw an open-backed truck at the site containing a large amount of asbestos cement roofing material.
- Bacteria and insects break down organic material to produce soil and nutrients so plants can grow.
- The relief material includes biscuits, water, candles, matchsticks and bread.
- Gas cylinders contain flammable material - the fire extinguishers put out fires.
- It is formed from decomposing underground deposits of organic matter such as decaying plant material.
- For the first three harvests, plant material was bulked across three gullies to obtain sufficient plant material for mineral analyses.
- Previous attempts to break down the plant into reusable material and fertiliser have been defeated because of its high moisture content.
- Gone are the days when wood was the basic material used for boat building.
- That is because mined diamonds are a carbon gem material and synthetic diamonds are polycrystalline.
- A virus is a small packet of infectious nucleic acid material surrounded by a protein coat.
- The fire spread so quickly, he said, because there was a lot of flammable material inside the building.
- This sculpture was room size and not made of any fine material like marble or wood.
- The sediment is cemented by material derived from pore waters and grain dissolution.
- This region's ample sunlight breaks down the organic material in sewage into food for plankton.
Synonyms
matter, substance, stuff, medium
1. 1.1materials Things needed for an activity.
  cleaning materials
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is the way we get the bulk of the tools and materials we need for projects on the house.
  It is important therefore to know how to create effective teaching materials.
  He said sugar, cement, timber and building material were some of the marketable goods in the neighboring countries.
  He strikingly adapted the quality of painting technique and materials to different budgets.
  The railway stations revert to older materials and greater personal care is evident.
  Throwing money and materials and implements at the problem is not dealing with the problem.
  There is no good scientific evidence that these materials are effective at all.
  The managers made a point of ensuring that materials never touched the ground.
  They have potentially fatal deficiencies in the areas of design, equipment and materials.
  They cut into course tutor time and need costly equipment and materials to make them of value to the young people.
  They sat together, looking on a little suspiciously as the tools and materials were gathered together.
  Other icons lead to full construction details plus information about materials and tools.
  You have to get all the staff, materials and equipment to the right place at the right time.
  This will also include supplying materials and equipment required for all events.
  Jefferson's choice of roofing material was the other matter to be considered.
  So first of all get hold of the right materials and tools for the job in hand.
  It created a flash flood effect and I was in the middle of rapids containing debris, wood and all matter of building material.
  Many students are unable to get class materials, proper exam booklets or take part in labs.
  Any money given to the project will be used toward the purchase of materials for the above activities.
  Banana juice also can be used for making wine while the banana powder could be a basic starting material for making banana biscuits.
  Synonyms
  things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries
  British informal gubbins
2. 1.2with adjective or noun modifier A person of a specified quality or suitability.
  he's not really Olympic material
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is not teller material or bank material for that matter, but he sure makes me laugh.
  Synonyms
  things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries
2Information or ideas for use in creating a book or other work.
his colonial experiences gave him material
Example sentencesExamples
- Part of their brief was to provide work for an exhibition in November and to provide material for a book published at the same time.
- Singletons might use it as a dating agency, novelists as material for a book, market researchers as the easiest way to corner unsuspecting prey.
- We found some of the most informative material for this review in grey literature.
- I had been turning this around in my mind for some time, trying to think through just what would make my kids worthy material for a book.
- Her spiky style and confident handling of the source material creates a book which is more of a literary event than a quiet read.
- And the director made the most of the quality material that had finally landed in his lap.
- According to an excitable tabloid, he viewed the murder as good material for a future book.
- The source material was great books, and the host was a famous radio journalist.
- She makes no attempt to disguise her material in order to create the illusion of a realistic scene.
- I am continuing to gather material for the cat book and, in parallel, pulling poems together in one place.
- But, after a considerable amount of said hanging about, he accumulated enough material to write a book.
- He obviously hoped to repeat his success with another trip, but the second cruise was dogged by bad weather and did not provide enough material for a book.
- We are currently researching material for a book.
- There, in a nutshell, is the source material for countless books.
Synonyms
information, data, facts, facts and figures, statistics, evidence, subject matter, ideas, details, particulars
background, notes, documentation, documents, papers
informal info, gen, deets, dope, low-down, dirt
1. 2.1 Items, such as songs or jokes, comprising a performer's act.
  a watchable band playing original material
  Example sentencesExamples
  The long-player will mix original material with traditional songs and is due out late next month.
  The ensemble often draws its material from narrative folk songs.
  Have you expanded your repertoire, and if so will your explorative work with your new kit inform your next material?
  So why aren't more studios willing to take a risk with quality material?
  No matter how good his material is, the audience wear him down with a mixture of catatonia and contempt.
  The Keighley band will include original material in its set along with new chart covers.
  How does she create her material, and what comes first, words or music?
  More seriously, it seems that not a few musicians seek out less well-known foreign songs as material for their own albums.
  His performance will feature both old material and songs from the new album.
  The new material varies in quality, but it is nice to have on this disc.
  The remaining films are in the main from writer-directors who create their own material.
  It's a tough job to have to sit down and actively think about ways to be funny, and create material for a show.
  The seven-piece outfit perform Tex-Mex classics, Spanish songs and original material.
  They gave many performances of original arrangements from his operetta material.
  The sound quality is almost always atrocious, but for obsessive fans hungry for material, this matters little.
  There are originals in there too, and these are not overshadowed by the quality of the interpreted material.
  They've got good delivery, and the show's writers create solid if unremarkable material.
  He has recorded some excellent quality material over the years and is a great admirer of the songs of the late John Denver.
  How could an entire album worth of quality material be left on the cutting floor?
  Even considering just her four most recent albums, that's an awful lot of quality material to consider.
3Cloth or fabric.
a piece of dark material
count noun dress materials
Example sentencesExamples
- The water seeped through the thin material of her dress and made her shiver.
- He pretended to dust an imaginary piece of lint from the dark material before returning his gaze to the other man.
- He had a piece of dark material masking his face and was wearing a black, cotton casual jacket.
- The clothes, as many of the designers put it, are produced from quality material with close attention to detail.
- The year's supply of knitting is over, so now I plan to get some dress material decorated for some of the younger girls.
- The material of the dress I wore was very unflattering; it bulged and fell flat in all the wrong places.
- I think that that has come out in the way that you have worked with fabric and material and design.
- The dress of fine material clung to her curvy figure as if it were part of her skin.
- Insulation is a type of fabric or material in a lining that can protect from either outside heat or cold.
- I've spent hours going around those fabric shops looking for material.
- She picked out a plain dress of dark green material and a clean loin cloth.
- The purple dress of velvet material had fitted her perfectly.
- Multi-hued swathes of dress material and shirting are an added attraction.
- I glanced at Matt in the dim light, noticing how he blended in with the shadows due to the dark material of his clothing.
- This led him to the trade of a florist and later to creation of artificial flowers in satin, velvet, silk and other dress material.
- He was dressed in black material that reflected some of his light and made him seem even whiter.
- Heavy, tight weave fabrics will burn more slowly than loose weave, light fabrics of the same material.
- I gasped when I saw the material; it was a sheer blue shimmery silk material that felt like water.
- I wiped my right hand repeatedly on the dark gray material of the skirt.
- Laminating this material to a carrier fabric (a fleece, for example) maximises this efficiency.
Synonyms
fabric, cloth, stuff, textiles

adjective məˈtɪərɪəlməˈtɪriəl

1attributive Denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit.
the material world
Example sentencesExamples
- The show was put together rather hastily, in a bid to raise moral and material support for the artist who is ailing.
- The problem is rather that his material circumstances are not in his control.
- The modern measure of success is material reward rather than the satisfaction of a job well done.
- Descartes believes in a more or less natural form of interaction between immaterial mind and material body.
- All mentioned material things like a large salary, a nice house, an SUV, and so on.
- In many cases, we look to the exterior values, being physical or of a material nature.
- If one doesn't have a political conscience and if one has the material or physical means, it's easy to be egocentric.
- Rather, it is crucial to connect individual states of mind to material circumstances.
- It is a human invention or creation not of a physical or material kind but of a purely intellectual and ideational kind.
- He is sadly pedaling a form of escapism that neglects the real material existence.
- This partially explains the material dimension of his iconography, rooted in the physical world of nature around him.
- The story charts a difference from matter as material to matter as meaning.
- It would be far better if the discussion of economics took a more rigorous approach to the material world rather than indulging in amateur psychology.
- It assumes that the virtual is a substitute for the material realm, rather than an adjunct to it.
- These theories remind us that historical events are experienced by individuals in a material way on real bodies and minds.
- When we turn the page of a book, we're aware of a new yet essentially stable material physical space.
- In familiar, romantic fashion, this culture is associated with spiritual rather than with material values.
- I am more interested in building relationships with people rather than receiving material items.
- This conception of truth reflected more on the essence rather than the material manifestation of truth.
- They are encouraged to have material goals which require substantial assets - again, so that they will be motivated sellers.
Synonyms
physical, corporeal, tangible, non-spiritual, mundane, worldly, earthly, temporal, concrete, real, solid, substantial, secular, lay
rare sublunary
1. 1.1 Concerned with money or possessions rather than the needs of the mind or spirit.
  material living standards have risen
  Example sentencesExamples
  This symbolises a need our soaring material culture cannot satisfy.
  To achieve this, we will have to put an end to our single minded devotion to material pursuits.
  You are generous and proud in family situations especially regarding material and property matters.
  Bear in mind that most material invocations for wordly gains will almost inevitably carry some degree of bad luck.
  By and large, human spiritual welfare is seen as far more important than material welfare right through this period.
  Despite the billions he pocketed from running his hedge fund, he maintains greater interest in philosophy than matters material.
  Long before Europeans arrived, it has been suggested, Australia was a prosperous land, with a high material standard of living.
  Did he want to be with someone who only liked him for material and physical criteria?
  Synonyms
  sensual, carnal, materialistic, corporal, fleshly, physical, bodily
2. 1.2 Concerned with the matter of reasoning, not its form.
  political conflict lacks mathematical or material certitude
  Example sentencesExamples
  Synthetic or material a priori truths are not reducible to formal truths.
2Significant; important.
the insects did not do any material damage to the crop
Example sentencesExamples
- The practices are grounded in a material reality with actual, material consequences.
- If there's no disputing about taste, there's also no disputing some of the material consequences of taste.
- It is not an intensely material matter here, but it explains a lot that has happened.
- If this is so, we may conclude that the material component in the definition of a species is intelligible matter.
- We agreed with the firm that in failing to obtain a vet's report, he had breached an important and material condition of the policy.
- Relationships ought thus to be preserved or restored and the concept of teamwork realised or saved from material damage.
- A majority of their Lordships treated a material increase in the risk as equivalent to a material contribution to the damage.
- Now, physical prowess is admittedly not a material qualification for public office.
- But what is material damage to property, and why should locality be less important in this case?
- But are there any material reasons why he shouldn't be permitted to take that trip and find out?
- It will give auditors a better understanding of what is of material significance to the banks' regulator.
Synonyms
significant, major, important, of consequence, consequential, momentous
weighty, vital, essential, key, meaningful
1. 2.1Law (of evidence or a fact) significant or relevant, especially to the extent of determining a cause or affecting a judgement.
  information that could be material to a murder inquiry
  Example sentencesExamples
  One reason to hold material witnesses is that they are considered likely to flee the country.
  In this case the following matters are particularly material.
  It must be proved that the accused was suffering from an abnormality of mind at the material time.
  The situation in the crisis alters almost by the hour but as at Wednesday morning I will try and give you an update of matters that are material.
  The Defendants had a legitimate interest in drawing attention to matters which were material in one or other of these two statutory purposes.
  Synonyms
  relevant, applicable, pertinent, apposite, germane
  apropos, to the point, to the purpose
  Latin ad rem
  rare appurtenant

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'relating to matter'): from late Latin materialis, adjective from Latin materia 'matter'.

Rhymes

arterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ethereal, ferial, funereal, immaterial, imperial, magisterial, managerial, ministerial, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial

Definition of material in US English:

material

nounməˈtirēəlməˈtɪriəl

1The matter from which a thing is or can be made.
goats can eat more or less any plant material
highly flammable materials
materials such as brass
Example sentencesExamples
- Try to remove all large rocks, pebbles, and plant material from the soil.
- The sediment is cemented by material derived from pore waters and grain dissolution.
- The fire spread so quickly, he said, because there was a lot of flammable material inside the building.
- A virus is a small packet of infectious nucleic acid material surrounded by a protein coat.
- At higher elevations on these mountains, the parent material is acid crystalline rock.
- This region's ample sunlight breaks down the organic material in sewage into food for plankton.
- A wine-like beverage can be made from almost any fruit, berry, or other plant material containing sugar.
- The officer saw an open-backed truck at the site containing a large amount of asbestos cement roofing material.
- Many of the males and a few of the females wear stuff that looks like leather, but most is woven animal fur or plant material of kinds I do not know.
- Any samples of hair, blood or other organic material removed from the cars will be matched up against a national database.
- Previous attempts to break down the plant into reusable material and fertiliser have been defeated because of its high moisture content.
- For the first three harvests, plant material was bulked across three gullies to obtain sufficient plant material for mineral analyses.
- Bacteria and insects break down organic material to produce soil and nutrients so plants can grow.
- That is because mined diamonds are a carbon gem material and synthetic diamonds are polycrystalline.
- The relief material includes biscuits, water, candles, matchsticks and bread.
- This sculpture was room size and not made of any fine material like marble or wood.
- It is formed from decomposing underground deposits of organic matter such as decaying plant material.
- Efforts to extinguish the blaze were hampered by the large amount of flammable material inside the building.
- Gone are the days when wood was the basic material used for boat building.
- Gas cylinders contain flammable material - the fire extinguishers put out fires.
Synonyms
matter, substance, stuff, medium
1. 1.1usually materials Things needed for an activity.
  cleaning materials
  Example sentencesExamples
  It created a flash flood effect and I was in the middle of rapids containing debris, wood and all matter of building material.
  This will also include supplying materials and equipment required for all events.
  So first of all get hold of the right materials and tools for the job in hand.
  He strikingly adapted the quality of painting technique and materials to different budgets.
  This is the way we get the bulk of the tools and materials we need for projects on the house.
  They sat together, looking on a little suspiciously as the tools and materials were gathered together.
  The railway stations revert to older materials and greater personal care is evident.
  The managers made a point of ensuring that materials never touched the ground.
  There is no good scientific evidence that these materials are effective at all.
  Banana juice also can be used for making wine while the banana powder could be a basic starting material for making banana biscuits.
  Many students are unable to get class materials, proper exam booklets or take part in labs.
  Jefferson's choice of roofing material was the other matter to be considered.
  Any money given to the project will be used toward the purchase of materials for the above activities.
  It is important therefore to know how to create effective teaching materials.
  Other icons lead to full construction details plus information about materials and tools.
  You have to get all the staff, materials and equipment to the right place at the right time.
  He said sugar, cement, timber and building material were some of the marketable goods in the neighboring countries.
  Throwing money and materials and implements at the problem is not dealing with the problem.
  They have potentially fatal deficiencies in the areas of design, equipment and materials.
  They cut into course tutor time and need costly equipment and materials to make them of value to the young people.
  Synonyms
  things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries
2. 1.2with adjective or noun modifier A person of a specified quality or suitability.
  he's not really Olympic material
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is not teller material or bank material for that matter, but he sure makes me laugh.
  Synonyms
  things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries
2Facts, information, or ideas for use in creating a book or other work.
there is much good material here for priests to use in sermons
Example sentencesExamples
- She makes no attempt to disguise her material in order to create the illusion of a realistic scene.
- But, after a considerable amount of said hanging about, he accumulated enough material to write a book.
- We found some of the most informative material for this review in grey literature.
- And the director made the most of the quality material that had finally landed in his lap.
- There, in a nutshell, is the source material for countless books.
- According to an excitable tabloid, he viewed the murder as good material for a future book.
- We are currently researching material for a book.
- Her spiky style and confident handling of the source material creates a book which is more of a literary event than a quiet read.
- I had been turning this around in my mind for some time, trying to think through just what would make my kids worthy material for a book.
- Part of their brief was to provide work for an exhibition in November and to provide material for a book published at the same time.
- The source material was great books, and the host was a famous radio journalist.
- I am continuing to gather material for the cat book and, in parallel, pulling poems together in one place.
- He obviously hoped to repeat his success with another trip, but the second cruise was dogged by bad weather and did not provide enough material for a book.
- Singletons might use it as a dating agency, novelists as material for a book, market researchers as the easiest way to corner unsuspecting prey.
Synonyms
information, data, facts, facts and figures, statistics, evidence, subject matter, ideas, details, particulars
1. 2.1 Items, especially songs or jokes, comprising a performer's act.
  a band playing original material
  Example sentencesExamples
  He has recorded some excellent quality material over the years and is a great admirer of the songs of the late John Denver.
  The Keighley band will include original material in its set along with new chart covers.
  There are originals in there too, and these are not overshadowed by the quality of the interpreted material.
  They gave many performances of original arrangements from his operetta material.
  The sound quality is almost always atrocious, but for obsessive fans hungry for material, this matters little.
  The ensemble often draws its material from narrative folk songs.
  Have you expanded your repertoire, and if so will your explorative work with your new kit inform your next material?
  The new material varies in quality, but it is nice to have on this disc.
  The seven-piece outfit perform Tex-Mex classics, Spanish songs and original material.
  The long-player will mix original material with traditional songs and is due out late next month.
  His performance will feature both old material and songs from the new album.
  No matter how good his material is, the audience wear him down with a mixture of catatonia and contempt.
  How could an entire album worth of quality material be left on the cutting floor?
  More seriously, it seems that not a few musicians seek out less well-known foreign songs as material for their own albums.
  They've got good delivery, and the show's writers create solid if unremarkable material.
  The remaining films are in the main from writer-directors who create their own material.
  How does she create her material, and what comes first, words or music?
  It's a tough job to have to sit down and actively think about ways to be funny, and create material for a show.
  So why aren't more studios willing to take a risk with quality material?
  Even considering just her four most recent albums, that's an awful lot of quality material to consider.
3Cloth or fabric.
a piece of dark material
dress materials
Example sentencesExamples
- He had a piece of dark material masking his face and was wearing a black, cotton casual jacket.
- Heavy, tight weave fabrics will burn more slowly than loose weave, light fabrics of the same material.
- The purple dress of velvet material had fitted her perfectly.
- Laminating this material to a carrier fabric (a fleece, for example) maximises this efficiency.
- She picked out a plain dress of dark green material and a clean loin cloth.
- This led him to the trade of a florist and later to creation of artificial flowers in satin, velvet, silk and other dress material.
- The year's supply of knitting is over, so now I plan to get some dress material decorated for some of the younger girls.
- I've spent hours going around those fabric shops looking for material.
- Multi-hued swathes of dress material and shirting are an added attraction.
- I think that that has come out in the way that you have worked with fabric and material and design.
- I glanced at Matt in the dim light, noticing how he blended in with the shadows due to the dark material of his clothing.
- The water seeped through the thin material of her dress and made her shiver.
- He was dressed in black material that reflected some of his light and made him seem even whiter.
- Insulation is a type of fabric or material in a lining that can protect from either outside heat or cold.
- The dress of fine material clung to her curvy figure as if it were part of her skin.
- I gasped when I saw the material; it was a sheer blue shimmery silk material that felt like water.
- He pretended to dust an imaginary piece of lint from the dark material before returning his gaze to the other man.
- The material of the dress I wore was very unflattering; it bulged and fell flat in all the wrong places.
- I wiped my right hand repeatedly on the dark gray material of the skirt.
- The clothes, as many of the designers put it, are produced from quality material with close attention to detail.
Synonyms
fabric, cloth, stuff, textiles

adjectiveməˈtirēəlməˈtɪriəl

1attributive Denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit.
the material world
moral and material support
Example sentencesExamples
- The modern measure of success is material reward rather than the satisfaction of a job well done.
- It assumes that the virtual is a substitute for the material realm, rather than an adjunct to it.
- These theories remind us that historical events are experienced by individuals in a material way on real bodies and minds.
- In many cases, we look to the exterior values, being physical or of a material nature.
- In familiar, romantic fashion, this culture is associated with spiritual rather than with material values.
- The story charts a difference from matter as material to matter as meaning.
- When we turn the page of a book, we're aware of a new yet essentially stable material physical space.
- All mentioned material things like a large salary, a nice house, an SUV, and so on.
- He is sadly pedaling a form of escapism that neglects the real material existence.
- Rather, it is crucial to connect individual states of mind to material circumstances.
- The show was put together rather hastily, in a bid to raise moral and material support for the artist who is ailing.
- The problem is rather that his material circumstances are not in his control.
- This partially explains the material dimension of his iconography, rooted in the physical world of nature around him.
- It would be far better if the discussion of economics took a more rigorous approach to the material world rather than indulging in amateur psychology.
- If one doesn't have a political conscience and if one has the material or physical means, it's easy to be egocentric.
- This conception of truth reflected more on the essence rather than the material manifestation of truth.
- I am more interested in building relationships with people rather than receiving material items.
- Descartes believes in a more or less natural form of interaction between immaterial mind and material body.
- It is a human invention or creation not of a physical or material kind but of a purely intellectual and ideational kind.
- They are encouraged to have material goals which require substantial assets - again, so that they will be motivated sellers.
Synonyms
physical, corporeal, tangible, non-spiritual, mundane, worldly, earthly, temporal, concrete, real, solid, substantial, secular, lay
1. 1.1 Concerned with physical needs or desires.
  material living standards have risen
  Example sentencesExamples
  Long before Europeans arrived, it has been suggested, Australia was a prosperous land, with a high material standard of living.
  You are generous and proud in family situations especially regarding material and property matters.
  Despite the billions he pocketed from running his hedge fund, he maintains greater interest in philosophy than matters material.
  By and large, human spiritual welfare is seen as far more important than material welfare right through this period.
  Bear in mind that most material invocations for wordly gains will almost inevitably carry some degree of bad luck.
  This symbolises a need our soaring material culture cannot satisfy.
  To achieve this, we will have to put an end to our single minded devotion to material pursuits.
  Did he want to be with someone who only liked him for material and physical criteria?
  Synonyms
  sensual, carnal, materialistic, corporal, fleshly, physical, bodily
2. 1.2 Concerned with the matter of reasoning, not its form.
  political conflict lacks mathematical or material certitude
  Example sentencesExamples
  Synthetic or material a priori truths are not reducible to formal truths.
2Important; essential; relevant.
the insects did not do any material damage to the crop
Example sentencesExamples
- A majority of their Lordships treated a material increase in the risk as equivalent to a material contribution to the damage.
- But are there any material reasons why he shouldn't be permitted to take that trip and find out?
- We agreed with the firm that in failing to obtain a vet's report, he had breached an important and material condition of the policy.
- It is not an intensely material matter here, but it explains a lot that has happened.
- The practices are grounded in a material reality with actual, material consequences.
- Now, physical prowess is admittedly not a material qualification for public office.
- If there's no disputing about taste, there's also no disputing some of the material consequences of taste.
- It will give auditors a better understanding of what is of material significance to the banks' regulator.
- But what is material damage to property, and why should locality be less important in this case?
- If this is so, we may conclude that the material component in the definition of a species is intelligible matter.
- Relationships ought thus to be preserved or restored and the concept of teamwork realised or saved from material damage.
Synonyms
significant, major, important, of consequence, consequential, momentous
1. 2.1Law (of evidence or a fact) significant, influential, or relevant, especially to the extent of determining a cause or affecting a judgment.
  information that could be material to a murder inquiry
  Example sentencesExamples
  The situation in the crisis alters almost by the hour but as at Wednesday morning I will try and give you an update of matters that are material.
  It must be proved that the accused was suffering from an abnormality of mind at the material time.
  In this case the following matters are particularly material.
  The Defendants had a legitimate interest in drawing attention to matters which were material in one or other of these two statutory purposes.
  One reason to hold material witnesses is that they are considered likely to flee the country.
  Synonyms
  relevant, applicable, pertinent, apposite, germane

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘relating to matter’): from late Latin materialis, adjective from Latin materia ‘matter’.

单词	material
释义	Definition of material in English: material noun məˈtɪərɪəlməˈtɪriəl mass noun 1The matter from which a thing is or can be made. goats can eat more or less any plant material count noun highly flammable materials Example sentencesExamples Try to remove all large rocks, pebbles, and plant material from the soil. At higher elevations on these mountains, the parent material is acid crystalline rock. Any samples of hair, blood or other organic material removed from the cars will be matched up against a national database. Many of the males and a few of the females wear stuff that looks like leather, but most is woven animal fur or plant material of kinds I do not know. Efforts to extinguish the blaze were hampered by the large amount of flammable material inside the building. A wine-like beverage can be made from almost any fruit, berry, or other plant material containing sugar. The officer saw an open-backed truck at the site containing a large amount of asbestos cement roofing material. Bacteria and insects break down organic material to produce soil and nutrients so plants can grow. The relief material includes biscuits, water, candles, matchsticks and bread. Gas cylinders contain flammable material - the fire extinguishers put out fires. It is formed from decomposing underground deposits of organic matter such as decaying plant material. For the first three harvests, plant material was bulked across three gullies to obtain sufficient plant material for mineral analyses. Previous attempts to break down the plant into reusable material and fertiliser have been defeated because of its high moisture content. Gone are the days when wood was the basic material used for boat building. That is because mined diamonds are a carbon gem material and synthetic diamonds are polycrystalline. A virus is a small packet of infectious nucleic acid material surrounded by a protein coat. The fire spread so quickly, he said, because there was a lot of flammable material inside the building. This sculpture was room size and not made of any fine material like marble or wood. The sediment is cemented by material derived from pore waters and grain dissolution. This region's ample sunlight breaks down the organic material in sewage into food for plankton. Synonyms matter, substance, stuff, medium 1.1materials Things needed for an activity. cleaning materials Example sentencesExamples This is the way we get the bulk of the tools and materials we need for projects on the house. It is important therefore to know how to create effective teaching materials. He said sugar, cement, timber and building material were some of the marketable goods in the neighboring countries. He strikingly adapted the quality of painting technique and materials to different budgets. The railway stations revert to older materials and greater personal care is evident. Throwing money and materials and implements at the problem is not dealing with the problem. There is no good scientific evidence that these materials are effective at all. The managers made a point of ensuring that materials never touched the ground. They have potentially fatal deficiencies in the areas of design, equipment and materials. They cut into course tutor time and need costly equipment and materials to make them of value to the young people. They sat together, looking on a little suspiciously as the tools and materials were gathered together. Other icons lead to full construction details plus information about materials and tools. You have to get all the staff, materials and equipment to the right place at the right time. This will also include supplying materials and equipment required for all events. Jefferson's choice of roofing material was the other matter to be considered. So first of all get hold of the right materials and tools for the job in hand. It created a flash flood effect and I was in the middle of rapids containing debris, wood and all matter of building material. Many students are unable to get class materials, proper exam booklets or take part in labs. Any money given to the project will be used toward the purchase of materials for the above activities. Banana juice also can be used for making wine while the banana powder could be a basic starting material for making banana biscuits. Synonyms things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries British informal gubbins 1.2with adjective or noun modifier A person of a specified quality or suitability. he's not really Olympic material Example sentencesExamples He is not teller material or bank material for that matter, but he sure makes me laugh. Synonyms things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries 2Information or ideas for use in creating a book or other work. his colonial experiences gave him material Example sentencesExamples Part of their brief was to provide work for an exhibition in November and to provide material for a book published at the same time. Singletons might use it as a dating agency, novelists as material for a book, market researchers as the easiest way to corner unsuspecting prey. We found some of the most informative material for this review in grey literature. I had been turning this around in my mind for some time, trying to think through just what would make my kids worthy material for a book. Her spiky style and confident handling of the source material creates a book which is more of a literary event than a quiet read. And the director made the most of the quality material that had finally landed in his lap. According to an excitable tabloid, he viewed the murder as good material for a future book. The source material was great books, and the host was a famous radio journalist. She makes no attempt to disguise her material in order to create the illusion of a realistic scene. I am continuing to gather material for the cat book and, in parallel, pulling poems together in one place. But, after a considerable amount of said hanging about, he accumulated enough material to write a book. He obviously hoped to repeat his success with another trip, but the second cruise was dogged by bad weather and did not provide enough material for a book. We are currently researching material for a book. There, in a nutshell, is the source material for countless books. Synonyms information, data, facts, facts and figures, statistics, evidence, subject matter, ideas, details, particulars background, notes, documentation, documents, papers informal info, gen, deets, dope, low-down, dirt 2.1 Items, such as songs or jokes, comprising a performer's act. a watchable band playing original material Example sentencesExamples The long-player will mix original material with traditional songs and is due out late next month. The ensemble often draws its material from narrative folk songs. Have you expanded your repertoire, and if so will your explorative work with your new kit inform your next material? So why aren't more studios willing to take a risk with quality material? No matter how good his material is, the audience wear him down with a mixture of catatonia and contempt. The Keighley band will include original material in its set along with new chart covers. How does she create her material, and what comes first, words or music? More seriously, it seems that not a few musicians seek out less well-known foreign songs as material for their own albums. His performance will feature both old material and songs from the new album. The new material varies in quality, but it is nice to have on this disc. The remaining films are in the main from writer-directors who create their own material. It's a tough job to have to sit down and actively think about ways to be funny, and create material for a show. The seven-piece outfit perform Tex-Mex classics, Spanish songs and original material. They gave many performances of original arrangements from his operetta material. The sound quality is almost always atrocious, but for obsessive fans hungry for material, this matters little. There are originals in there too, and these are not overshadowed by the quality of the interpreted material. They've got good delivery, and the show's writers create solid if unremarkable material. He has recorded some excellent quality material over the years and is a great admirer of the songs of the late John Denver. How could an entire album worth of quality material be left on the cutting floor? Even considering just her four most recent albums, that's an awful lot of quality material to consider. 3Cloth or fabric. a piece of dark material count noun dress materials Example sentencesExamples The water seeped through the thin material of her dress and made her shiver. He pretended to dust an imaginary piece of lint from the dark material before returning his gaze to the other man. He had a piece of dark material masking his face and was wearing a black, cotton casual jacket. The clothes, as many of the designers put it, are produced from quality material with close attention to detail. The year's supply of knitting is over, so now I plan to get some dress material decorated for some of the younger girls. The material of the dress I wore was very unflattering; it bulged and fell flat in all the wrong places. I think that that has come out in the way that you have worked with fabric and material and design. The dress of fine material clung to her curvy figure as if it were part of her skin. Insulation is a type of fabric or material in a lining that can protect from either outside heat or cold. I've spent hours going around those fabric shops looking for material. She picked out a plain dress of dark green material and a clean loin cloth. The purple dress of velvet material had fitted her perfectly. Multi-hued swathes of dress material and shirting are an added attraction. I glanced at Matt in the dim light, noticing how he blended in with the shadows due to the dark material of his clothing. This led him to the trade of a florist and later to creation of artificial flowers in satin, velvet, silk and other dress material. He was dressed in black material that reflected some of his light and made him seem even whiter. Heavy, tight weave fabrics will burn more slowly than loose weave, light fabrics of the same material. I gasped when I saw the material; it was a sheer blue shimmery silk material that felt like water. I wiped my right hand repeatedly on the dark gray material of the skirt. Laminating this material to a carrier fabric (a fleece, for example) maximises this efficiency. Synonyms fabric, cloth, stuff, textiles adjective məˈtɪərɪəlməˈtɪriəl 1attributive Denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit. the material world Example sentencesExamples The show was put together rather hastily, in a bid to raise moral and material support for the artist who is ailing. The problem is rather that his material circumstances are not in his control. The modern measure of success is material reward rather than the satisfaction of a job well done. Descartes believes in a more or less natural form of interaction between immaterial mind and material body. All mentioned material things like a large salary, a nice house, an SUV, and so on. In many cases, we look to the exterior values, being physical or of a material nature. If one doesn't have a political conscience and if one has the material or physical means, it's easy to be egocentric. Rather, it is crucial to connect individual states of mind to material circumstances. It is a human invention or creation not of a physical or material kind but of a purely intellectual and ideational kind. He is sadly pedaling a form of escapism that neglects the real material existence. This partially explains the material dimension of his iconography, rooted in the physical world of nature around him. The story charts a difference from matter as material to matter as meaning. It would be far better if the discussion of economics took a more rigorous approach to the material world rather than indulging in amateur psychology. It assumes that the virtual is a substitute for the material realm, rather than an adjunct to it. These theories remind us that historical events are experienced by individuals in a material way on real bodies and minds. When we turn the page of a book, we're aware of a new yet essentially stable material physical space. In familiar, romantic fashion, this culture is associated with spiritual rather than with material values. I am more interested in building relationships with people rather than receiving material items. This conception of truth reflected more on the essence rather than the material manifestation of truth. They are encouraged to have material goals which require substantial assets - again, so that they will be motivated sellers. Synonyms physical, corporeal, tangible, non-spiritual, mundane, worldly, earthly, temporal, concrete, real, solid, substantial, secular, lay rare sublunary 1.1 Concerned with money or possessions rather than the needs of the mind or spirit. material living standards have risen Example sentencesExamples This symbolises a need our soaring material culture cannot satisfy. To achieve this, we will have to put an end to our single minded devotion to material pursuits. You are generous and proud in family situations especially regarding material and property matters. Bear in mind that most material invocations for wordly gains will almost inevitably carry some degree of bad luck. By and large, human spiritual welfare is seen as far more important than material welfare right through this period. Despite the billions he pocketed from running his hedge fund, he maintains greater interest in philosophy than matters material. Long before Europeans arrived, it has been suggested, Australia was a prosperous land, with a high material standard of living. Did he want to be with someone who only liked him for material and physical criteria? Synonyms sensual, carnal, materialistic, corporal, fleshly, physical, bodily 1.2 Concerned with the matter of reasoning, not its form. political conflict lacks mathematical or material certitude Example sentencesExamples Synthetic or material a priori truths are not reducible to formal truths. 2Significant; important. the insects did not do any material damage to the crop Example sentencesExamples The practices are grounded in a material reality with actual, material consequences. If there's no disputing about taste, there's also no disputing some of the material consequences of taste. It is not an intensely material matter here, but it explains a lot that has happened. If this is so, we may conclude that the material component in the definition of a species is intelligible matter. We agreed with the firm that in failing to obtain a vet's report, he had breached an important and material condition of the policy. Relationships ought thus to be preserved or restored and the concept of teamwork realised or saved from material damage. A majority of their Lordships treated a material increase in the risk as equivalent to a material contribution to the damage. Now, physical prowess is admittedly not a material qualification for public office. But what is material damage to property, and why should locality be less important in this case? But are there any material reasons why he shouldn't be permitted to take that trip and find out? It will give auditors a better understanding of what is of material significance to the banks' regulator. Synonyms significant, major, important, of consequence, consequential, momentous weighty, vital, essential, key, meaningful 2.1Law (of evidence or a fact) significant or relevant, especially to the extent of determining a cause or affecting a judgement. information that could be material to a murder inquiry Example sentencesExamples One reason to hold material witnesses is that they are considered likely to flee the country. In this case the following matters are particularly material. It must be proved that the accused was suffering from an abnormality of mind at the material time. The situation in the crisis alters almost by the hour but as at Wednesday morning I will try and give you an update of matters that are material. The Defendants had a legitimate interest in drawing attention to matters which were material in one or other of these two statutory purposes. Synonyms relevant, applicable, pertinent, apposite, germane apropos, to the point, to the purpose Latin ad rem rare appurtenant Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'relating to matter'): from late Latin materialis, adjective from Latin materia 'matter'. Rhymes arterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ethereal, ferial, funereal, immaterial, imperial, magisterial, managerial, ministerial, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial Definition of material in US English: material nounməˈtirēəlməˈtɪriəl 1The matter from which a thing is or can be made. goats can eat more or less any plant material highly flammable materials materials such as brass Example sentencesExamples Try to remove all large rocks, pebbles, and plant material from the soil. The sediment is cemented by material derived from pore waters and grain dissolution. The fire spread so quickly, he said, because there was a lot of flammable material inside the building. A virus is a small packet of infectious nucleic acid material surrounded by a protein coat. At higher elevations on these mountains, the parent material is acid crystalline rock. This region's ample sunlight breaks down the organic material in sewage into food for plankton. A wine-like beverage can be made from almost any fruit, berry, or other plant material containing sugar. The officer saw an open-backed truck at the site containing a large amount of asbestos cement roofing material. Many of the males and a few of the females wear stuff that looks like leather, but most is woven animal fur or plant material of kinds I do not know. Any samples of hair, blood or other organic material removed from the cars will be matched up against a national database. Previous attempts to break down the plant into reusable material and fertiliser have been defeated because of its high moisture content. For the first three harvests, plant material was bulked across three gullies to obtain sufficient plant material for mineral analyses. Bacteria and insects break down organic material to produce soil and nutrients so plants can grow. That is because mined diamonds are a carbon gem material and synthetic diamonds are polycrystalline. The relief material includes biscuits, water, candles, matchsticks and bread. This sculpture was room size and not made of any fine material like marble or wood. It is formed from decomposing underground deposits of organic matter such as decaying plant material. Efforts to extinguish the blaze were hampered by the large amount of flammable material inside the building. Gone are the days when wood was the basic material used for boat building. Gas cylinders contain flammable material - the fire extinguishers put out fires. Synonyms matter, substance, stuff, medium 1.1usually materials Things needed for an activity. cleaning materials Example sentencesExamples It created a flash flood effect and I was in the middle of rapids containing debris, wood and all matter of building material. This will also include supplying materials and equipment required for all events. So first of all get hold of the right materials and tools for the job in hand. He strikingly adapted the quality of painting technique and materials to different budgets. This is the way we get the bulk of the tools and materials we need for projects on the house. They sat together, looking on a little suspiciously as the tools and materials were gathered together. The railway stations revert to older materials and greater personal care is evident. The managers made a point of ensuring that materials never touched the ground. There is no good scientific evidence that these materials are effective at all. Banana juice also can be used for making wine while the banana powder could be a basic starting material for making banana biscuits. Many students are unable to get class materials, proper exam booklets or take part in labs. Jefferson's choice of roofing material was the other matter to be considered. Any money given to the project will be used toward the purchase of materials for the above activities. It is important therefore to know how to create effective teaching materials. Other icons lead to full construction details plus information about materials and tools. You have to get all the staff, materials and equipment to the right place at the right time. He said sugar, cement, timber and building material were some of the marketable goods in the neighboring countries. Throwing money and materials and implements at the problem is not dealing with the problem. They have potentially fatal deficiencies in the areas of design, equipment and materials. They cut into course tutor time and need costly equipment and materials to make them of value to the young people. Synonyms things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries 1.2with adjective or noun modifier A person of a specified quality or suitability. he's not really Olympic material Example sentencesExamples He is not teller material or bank material for that matter, but he sure makes me laugh. Synonyms things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries 2Facts, information, or ideas for use in creating a book or other work. there is much good material here for priests to use in sermons Example sentencesExamples She makes no attempt to disguise her material in order to create the illusion of a realistic scene. But, after a considerable amount of said hanging about, he accumulated enough material to write a book. We found some of the most informative material for this review in grey literature. And the director made the most of the quality material that had finally landed in his lap. There, in a nutshell, is the source material for countless books. According to an excitable tabloid, he viewed the murder as good material for a future book. We are currently researching material for a book. Her spiky style and confident handling of the source material creates a book which is more of a literary event than a quiet read. I had been turning this around in my mind for some time, trying to think through just what would make my kids worthy material for a book. Part of their brief was to provide work for an exhibition in November and to provide material for a book published at the same time. The source material was great books, and the host was a famous radio journalist. I am continuing to gather material for the cat book and, in parallel, pulling poems together in one place. He obviously hoped to repeat his success with another trip, but the second cruise was dogged by bad weather and did not provide enough material for a book. Singletons might use it as a dating agency, novelists as material for a book, market researchers as the easiest way to corner unsuspecting prey. Synonyms information, data, facts, facts and figures, statistics, evidence, subject matter, ideas, details, particulars 2.1 Items, especially songs or jokes, comprising a performer's act. a band playing original material Example sentencesExamples He has recorded some excellent quality material over the years and is a great admirer of the songs of the late John Denver. The Keighley band will include original material in its set along with new chart covers. There are originals in there too, and these are not overshadowed by the quality of the interpreted material. They gave many performances of original arrangements from his operetta material. The sound quality is almost always atrocious, but for obsessive fans hungry for material, this matters little. The ensemble often draws its material from narrative folk songs. Have you expanded your repertoire, and if so will your explorative work with your new kit inform your next material? The new material varies in quality, but it is nice to have on this disc. The seven-piece outfit perform Tex-Mex classics, Spanish songs and original material. The long-player will mix original material with traditional songs and is due out late next month. His performance will feature both old material and songs from the new album. No matter how good his material is, the audience wear him down with a mixture of catatonia and contempt. How could an entire album worth of quality material be left on the cutting floor? More seriously, it seems that not a few musicians seek out less well-known foreign songs as material for their own albums. They've got good delivery, and the show's writers create solid if unremarkable material. The remaining films are in the main from writer-directors who create their own material. How does she create her material, and what comes first, words or music? It's a tough job to have to sit down and actively think about ways to be funny, and create material for a show. So why aren't more studios willing to take a risk with quality material? Even considering just her four most recent albums, that's an awful lot of quality material to consider. 3Cloth or fabric. a piece of dark material dress materials Example sentencesExamples He had a piece of dark material masking his face and was wearing a black, cotton casual jacket. Heavy, tight weave fabrics will burn more slowly than loose weave, light fabrics of the same material. The purple dress of velvet material had fitted her perfectly. Laminating this material to a carrier fabric (a fleece, for example) maximises this efficiency. She picked out a plain dress of dark green material and a clean loin cloth. This led him to the trade of a florist and later to creation of artificial flowers in satin, velvet, silk and other dress material. The year's supply of knitting is over, so now I plan to get some dress material decorated for some of the younger girls. I've spent hours going around those fabric shops looking for material. Multi-hued swathes of dress material and shirting are an added attraction. I think that that has come out in the way that you have worked with fabric and material and design. I glanced at Matt in the dim light, noticing how he blended in with the shadows due to the dark material of his clothing. The water seeped through the thin material of her dress and made her shiver. He was dressed in black material that reflected some of his light and made him seem even whiter. Insulation is a type of fabric or material in a lining that can protect from either outside heat or cold. The dress of fine material clung to her curvy figure as if it were part of her skin. I gasped when I saw the material; it was a sheer blue shimmery silk material that felt like water. He pretended to dust an imaginary piece of lint from the dark material before returning his gaze to the other man. The material of the dress I wore was very unflattering; it bulged and fell flat in all the wrong places. I wiped my right hand repeatedly on the dark gray material of the skirt. The clothes, as many of the designers put it, are produced from quality material with close attention to detail. Synonyms fabric, cloth, stuff, textiles adjectiveməˈtirēəlməˈtɪriəl 1attributive Denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit. the material world moral and material support Example sentencesExamples The modern measure of success is material reward rather than the satisfaction of a job well done. It assumes that the virtual is a substitute for the material realm, rather than an adjunct to it. These theories remind us that historical events are experienced by individuals in a material way on real bodies and minds. In many cases, we look to the exterior values, being physical or of a material nature. In familiar, romantic fashion, this culture is associated with spiritual rather than with material values. The story charts a difference from matter as material to matter as meaning. When we turn the page of a book, we're aware of a new yet essentially stable material physical space. All mentioned material things like a large salary, a nice house, an SUV, and so on. He is sadly pedaling a form of escapism that neglects the real material existence. Rather, it is crucial to connect individual states of mind to material circumstances. The show was put together rather hastily, in a bid to raise moral and material support for the artist who is ailing. The problem is rather that his material circumstances are not in his control. This partially explains the material dimension of his iconography, rooted in the physical world of nature around him. It would be far better if the discussion of economics took a more rigorous approach to the material world rather than indulging in amateur psychology. If one doesn't have a political conscience and if one has the material or physical means, it's easy to be egocentric. This conception of truth reflected more on the essence rather than the material manifestation of truth. I am more interested in building relationships with people rather than receiving material items. Descartes believes in a more or less natural form of interaction between immaterial mind and material body. It is a human invention or creation not of a physical or material kind but of a purely intellectual and ideational kind. They are encouraged to have material goals which require substantial assets - again, so that they will be motivated sellers. Synonyms physical, corporeal, tangible, non-spiritual, mundane, worldly, earthly, temporal, concrete, real, solid, substantial, secular, lay 1.1 Concerned with physical needs or desires. material living standards have risen Example sentencesExamples Long before Europeans arrived, it has been suggested, Australia was a prosperous land, with a high material standard of living. You are generous and proud in family situations especially regarding material and property matters. Despite the billions he pocketed from running his hedge fund, he maintains greater interest in philosophy than matters material. By and large, human spiritual welfare is seen as far more important than material welfare right through this period. Bear in mind that most material invocations for wordly gains will almost inevitably carry some degree of bad luck. This symbolises a need our soaring material culture cannot satisfy. To achieve this, we will have to put an end to our single minded devotion to material pursuits. Did he want to be with someone who only liked him for material and physical criteria? Synonyms sensual, carnal, materialistic, corporal, fleshly, physical, bodily 1.2 Concerned with the matter of reasoning, not its form. political conflict lacks mathematical or material certitude Example sentencesExamples Synthetic or material a priori truths are not reducible to formal truths. 2Important; essential; relevant. the insects did not do any material damage to the crop Example sentencesExamples A majority of their Lordships treated a material increase in the risk as equivalent to a material contribution to the damage. But are there any material reasons why he shouldn't be permitted to take that trip and find out? We agreed with the firm that in failing to obtain a vet's report, he had breached an important and material condition of the policy. It is not an intensely material matter here, but it explains a lot that has happened. The practices are grounded in a material reality with actual, material consequences. Now, physical prowess is admittedly not a material qualification for public office. If there's no disputing about taste, there's also no disputing some of the material consequences of taste. It will give auditors a better understanding of what is of material significance to the banks' regulator. But what is material damage to property, and why should locality be less important in this case? If this is so, we may conclude that the material component in the definition of a species is intelligible matter. Relationships ought thus to be preserved or restored and the concept of teamwork realised or saved from material damage. Synonyms significant, major, important, of consequence, consequential, momentous 2.1Law (of evidence or a fact) significant, influential, or relevant, especially to the extent of determining a cause or affecting a judgment. information that could be material to a murder inquiry Example sentencesExamples The situation in the crisis alters almost by the hour but as at Wednesday morning I will try and give you an update of matters that are material. It must be proved that the accused was suffering from an abnormality of mind at the material time. In this case the following matters are particularly material. The Defendants had a legitimate interest in drawing attention to matters which were material in one or other of these two statutory purposes. One reason to hold material witnesses is that they are considered likely to flee the country. Synonyms relevant, applicable, pertinent, apposite, germane Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘relating to matter’): from late Latin materialis, adjective from Latin materia ‘matter’.
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