material
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material/məˈtɪəriəl/
▶noun
- 1 the matter from which a thing is or can be made.
■ items needed for an activity.
■ a person of a specified quality or suitability: he's not really Olympic material.
- 2 information or ideas for use in creating a book, performance, or other work.
- 3 cloth or fabric.
- 1 denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit: the material world.
■ concerned with the matter of reasoning, not its form.
- 2 significant; important: the insects did not do any material damage.
■ (often material to) relevant: information that could be material to a murder inquiry.
– derivatives
materiality noun (pl. materialities).
materiality noun (pl. materialities).
– origin ME: from late L. materialis, from L. materia ‘matter’.
'material' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablation
- acquisitive
- adsorb
- adware
- aerogel
- aggregate
- aid
- ancon
- angle
- angle iron
- angle of repose
- animism
- arrest
- artwork
- ashlar
- Atharva Veda
- atherosclerosis
- attribute
- autoradiograph
- avarice
- awning
- back
- backfill
- backing
- backup
- bacon
- baffle
- baize
- bajada
- band
- bandage
- bar
- basketwork
- batt
- bedding
- belt
- bind
- binding
- bing
- biopiracy
- black
- blacktop
- blanket
- blanket stitch
- block
- blockboard
- blog
- blot
- blue
- Blu-tack
