SkyfireDict

material   (TTS Sound)

The noun material has 5 senses

• 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")


• 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")


• 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 semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress")


• material -- (things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials")


• material -- (a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material")

The adj material has 6 senses

• material -- (concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts")


• material -- (derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe")


• 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")


• 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)


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


• 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)