material

ca-adj

material m or f (masculine and feminine plural materials)


material

material (nominative)
materialnıñ (genitive)
materialğa (dative)
materialnı (accusative)
materialda (locative)
materialdan (ablative)


material

This compound has a number of interesting material properties.

the material elements of the universe

1913, Alfred Bowyer Sharpe, Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Evil:

Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.

Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.

'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

1984, Peter Brown and Robert Rans, “Material Girl”, in Like a Virgin, performed by Madonna:

You've made several material contributions to this project.

This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.

discourse, which was always material, not trifling

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:

I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.

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:

en-adj

material (comparative more material, superlative most material)

more material (comparative)
most material (superlative)

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.


material

Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.

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.

1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:

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.)

2012 March 22, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:

Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.

We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original material to headline.

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[…]

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:

You'll need about a yard of material to make this.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 4:

Cloth to be made into a garment; fabric.

boy/girlfriend material

marriage material

We have lots of presidential material in various public offices.

Before she married her husband, Kiersten Little considered him ideal father material.

2021 November 20, Alex Williams, “To Breed or Not to Breed?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity.

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.

2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.

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.

2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:

The substance that something is made or composed of.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(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.

en-noun

material (countable and uncountable, plural materials)

aineisto

related data of various kinds collected as the basis for a document or book


material

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.

1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:

(obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.

en-verb

material (third-person singular simple present materials, present participle materialling, simple past and past participle materialled)

materials (present singular third-person)
materialling (participle present)
materialled (participle past)
materialled (past)


material

material (matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something)

matérial (canonical)
material-material (plural)

From Dutch materiaal. Doublet of materiel.


material

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.

head

material (plural and weak singular materiale)

materiale (plural)
materiale (singular weak)
materiel (alternative)
materiall (alternative)
materyal (alternative)
materyall (alternative)
matryal (alternative)

English: material

From Latin māteriālis; equivalent to matere + -al.


material

materialet (definite singular)
or materialer (indefinite material plural)
materiala (definite plural)
materialene (definite plural)


material

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

material (sample or specimens for study)

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.

2010, Luiz Artur Ferrareto, Luciano Klöckner, E o rádio?: novos horizontes midiáticos, EDIPUCRS, →ISBN, page 130:

material escolar

material de pesca

tackle; supplies; gear; rig (objects collected for use in a particular activity)

Borrowed from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”).


material

(chemistry) material (relating to or composed of matter)

(religion) material; worldly (relating to physical rather than spiritual matters)

(of a person, derogatory) materialistic; consumeristic (obsessed with consumer goods)


material

materiali (plural)
material (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
materialul (accusative definite nominative singular)
materiali (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
materialile (accusative definite nominative plural)
material (indefinite singular)
materialului (definite singular)
materiali (indefinite singular)
materialilor (definite plural)
materialule (singular vocative)
materialilor (vocative)

Borrowed from French matériel, from Latin materialis. By surface analysis, materie + -al.


material

es-adj

material m or f (masculine and feminine plural materiales)


material

material (indefinite nominative singular)
materials (genitive indefinite singular)
materialet (definite nominative singular)
materialets (definite genitive singular)
material (indefinite nominative plural)
materials (genitive indefinite plural)
materialen (definite nominative plural)
materialens (definite genitive plural)