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      material
      noun
      A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
      Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
      Cloth to be made into a garment; woven fabric.
      The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
      (sometimes collective, preceded by a qualifying word) A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
      (usually plural) Apparatus for doing or making something.
      (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, excluding the king.
      (Ireland, now rare) The ingredients for making whisky punch.
      (rare) The materiel of an army.
      (obsolete) Things that are material.
      verb
      (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.
      adjective
      Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
      Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
      Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
      (especially law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
      (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
      (obsolete) Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
      (obsolete) In an important degree.
      Roots
      materiamater- · Latin · matter, timber
      Synonyms for material
      fabricnclothnstuffnsubstantialadjcorporealadjtextilenmaterialitynsubstancensheetingn
      Words related to material
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