| 单词 | material |
| 释义 | material n. & adj. --n 1. the matter from which a thing is made. 2. cloth, fabric. 3. (in pl.) things needed for an activity (building materials; cleaning materials; writing materials). 4. a person or thing of a specified kind or suitable for a purpose (officer material). 5. (in sing. or pl.) information etc. to be used in writing a book etc. (experimental material; materials for a biography). 6. (in sing. or pl., often foll. by of) the elements or constituent parts of a substance. --adj 1. of matter; corporeal. 2. concerned with bodily comfort etc. (material well-being). 3. (of conduct, points of view, etc.) not spiritual. 4. (often foll. by to) important, essential, relevant (at the material time). 5. concerned with the matter, not the form, of reasoning. Derivatives materiality n. Etymology: ME f. OF materiel, -al, f. LL materialis f. L (as MATTER) |
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