material
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /məˈtɪɹ.i.əl/
Audio (California): (file)
- Hyphenation: ma‧te‧ri‧al
Adjective
[edit]material (comparative more material, superlative most material)
- Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
- This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
- 1913, Alfred Bowyer Sharpe, Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Evil:
- the material elements of the universe
- Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
- Antonym: spiritual
- Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
- 1984, Peter Brown and Robert Rans, “Material Girl”, in Like a Virgin[1], performed by Madonna:
- 'Cause we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl / You know that we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl
- (law, accounting) Significant.
- Antonym: immaterial
- You've made several material contributions to this project.
- This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
- 1685 March 20 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 10 March 1685]”, in William 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, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
- discourse, which was always material, not trifling
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An 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 most material to our present purpose.
Synonyms
[edit]- (related to matter): See also Thesaurus:substantial
- (worldly): mundane
- (significant): See also Thesaurus:pertinent
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
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Noun
[edit]material (countable and uncountable, plural materials)
- Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
- Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.
- 1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature[2], 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:
- In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, 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”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
- Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
- Text written for a specific purpose.
- We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original material to headline.
- A sample or specimens for study.
- 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 fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
- Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric.
- You'll need about a yard of material 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 in material and in workmanship.
- A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity.
- boy/girlfriend material
- marriage material
- We have lots of presidential material in various public offices.
- Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
- 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
- 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 private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
- The substance that something is made or composed of.
- 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
- As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
- (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
- (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:material
Derived terms
[edit]- active material
- adult material
- antimaterial
- archaeomaterial
- archeomaterial
- astromaterial
- bill of material
- bimaterial
- biomaterial
- bomb material
- building material
- collateral material
- commaterial
- composite material
- cryptomaterial
- ecomaterial
- genetic material
- genuine issue of material fact
- geomaterial
- hazardous material
- hazmat
- material action
- material conditional
- material culture
- material fact
- material heresy
- material implication
- materialisation
- materialise
- materialism
- materialist
- materialization
- materialize
- material logic
- materially
- materialness
- material noun
- material science
- materials science
- material support
- material witness
- metamaterial
- micromaterial
- multimaterial
- nanomaterial
- nonmaterial
- non-material
- positive material identification
- postmaterial
- postmaterialism
- postmaterialist
- raw material
- reading material
- shawl material
- sociomaterial
- strategic material
- supermaterial
- time and material
- trimaterial
Related terms
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]material (third-person singular simple present materials, present participle materialling, simple past and past participle materialled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.
- 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC:
- I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin materiālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]material m or f (masculine and feminine plural materials)
- material (clarification of this definition is needed)
Noun
[edit]material m (plural materials)
- material (clarification of this definition is needed)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “material” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean Tatar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin materialis.
Noun
[edit]material
Declension
[edit]nominative | material |
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genitive | materialnıñ |
dative | materialğa |
accusative | materialnı |
locative | materialda |
ablative | materialdan |
References
[edit]- Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk[4], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]material m (plural materiais)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch materiaal. Doublet of materiel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]material (plural material-material, first-person possessive materialku, second-person possessive materialmu, third-person possessive materialnya)
- material: matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “material” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin māteriālis; equivalent to matere + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]material (plural and weak singular materiale)
- Extant in matter or having physical form; material.
- Not supernatural or spiritual; regular, conventional, worldly.
- Being the physical attributes or properties of a thing.
- Affecting or modifying physical matter or attributes.
- (rare) Prominent, significant.
Descendants
[edit]- English: material
References
[edit]- “mā̆teriāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-12.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin materiale.
Noun
[edit]material n (definite singular materialet, indefinite plural material or materialer, definite plural materiala or materialene)
- alternative form of materiale
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “material” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]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 class
- 2010, Luiz Artur Ferrareto, Luciano Klöckner, E o rádio?: novos horizontes midiáticos, EDIPUCRS, →ISBN, page 130:
- Os equipamentos utilizados (notebook, mesa de som, aparelho mini system - caixa de retorno, microfones e gravadores) eram escassos e insuficientes pois muito material 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 instalados software de programas de captação e edição de áudio.
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- tackle; supplies; gear; rig (objects collected for use in a particular activity)
- material escolar ― school supplies
- material de pesca ― fishing gear
Adjective
[edit]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
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:material.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “material”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French matériel, from Latin materialis. By surface analysis, materie + -al.
Noun
[edit]material n (plural materiali)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) material | materialul | (niște) materiali | materialile |
genitive/dative | (unui) material | materialului | (unor) materiali | materialilor |
vocative | materialule | materialilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin māteriālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]material m or f (masculine and feminine plural materiales)
Noun
[edit]material m (plural materiales)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “material”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]material n
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- bildmaterial
- forskningsmaterial
- informationsmaterial
- materialförvaltare
- materialism
- materialist
- materialkategori
- materialprovning
- materialtyp
- materiel
- materiell
- textmaterial
- tidningsmaterial
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- en:Materials
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- enm:Matter
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/al
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw
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- pt:Education
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- Rhymes:Spanish/al
- Rhymes:Spanish/al/3 syllables
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