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material
A	noun
	1	fabric, cloth, material, textile
			artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚fabric, cloth, material, textile ╚brocade ╚broadcloth ╚broadcloth ╚boucle ╚belting ╚batiste ╚batik ╚basket weave ╚baize ╚alpaca ╚Aertex ╚acrylic ╚aba; aba cloth
	2	material
			things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚instrumentality; instrumentation ╚equipment ╚material ╚roofing ╚railing ╚packaging
	3	material
			information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form; "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message; content; subject matter; substance ╚information; info ╚material ╚copy ╚rehash
	4	material
			a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚applicant; applier ╚material
	5	material, stuff
			the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
		Category Tree: entity ╚substance; matter ╚material, stuff ╚sealing material ╚adhesive material; adhesive ╚rock; stone ╚mineral ╚diamagnet ╚sorbent; sorbent material ╚sorbate ╚raw material; staple ╚HAZMAT ╚floccule; floc ╚ammunition ╚atom; molecule; particle; corpuscle; mote; speck ╚rind
B	adjective
	1	substantial, real, material
			having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare

	2	material
			derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe"

	3	corporeal, material
			having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett

	4	material
			directly relevant to a matter especially a law case; "his support made a material difference"; "evidence material to the issue at hand"; "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"; "a material witness"

	5	material
			concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being; "material needs"; "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"- T.Roosevelt

	6	material
			concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"

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