materialise

See also: matérialise and matérialisé

English

Etymology

From material +‎ -ise; compare with French matérialiser.

Verb

materialise (third-person singular simple present materialises, present participle materialising, simple past and past participle materialised)

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize.
- 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 272:
  Therefore, the new standard design in fact has materialised as a 4-6-2 with two 20 in. cylinders and a boiler pressure of 250 lb. per sq. in.
- 2011 June 21, Larry Elliott, The Guardian:
  Third, while there is no immediate risk of Greece being kicked out of the club, such a threat could materialise if German taxpayers were to cut up rough and exert real political pressure on Angela Merkel's government.
- 2013, John Jacob English, Fragile Blue, AuthorHouse, page 40:
  In the old Irish folklore, this is a land where no one gets old or sick and where heroes live in comfort and tranquillity. But the land of Tír na nÓg only materialises to mere mortals at certain times, under certain circumstances.
- 2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in RAIL, page 51:
  J H Thomas, the union's general secretary, argued in a letter to union reps on September 23 [1919] that "the long-made promise of a better world for railwaymen which was made at the time of the nation's crisis, and accepted by the railwaymen as an offer that would ultimately bear fruit, has not materialised".
- 2024 November 7, Jamie Jackson, “Amad Diallo ends Manchester United’s European drought by seeing off Paok”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  Camara was the Paok equivalent of Bruno Fernandes: a playmaker adept at materialising in pockets and running his team.

References

L Picknett: Encyclopaedia of the Paranormal (1990) "The dead materialised in full form ..."
Alistair McLean: (1969) " ... he materialised a taxi out of nowhere."