DICTOMETER

MATERIAL

(material, paño, materiale, materiell, stoff, stofflig)

1. Synonyms:
   • Material
   • Stuff
   Definitions:
   • the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
   Examples:
   • Coal is a hard black material
   • Wheat is the stuff they use to make bread
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
   Examples:
   • The archives provided rich material for a definitive biography
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Fabric
   • Cloth
   • Material
   • Textile
   Definitions:
   • artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • things needed for doing or making something
   Examples:
   • Writing materials
   • Useful teaching materials
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • a person judged suitable for admission or employment
   Examples:
   • He was university material
   • She was vice-presidential material
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
   Examples:
   • Material possessions
   • Material wealth
   • Material comforts
   Antonyms:
   • Unworldly
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • derived from or composed of matter
   Examples:
   • The material universe
   Antonyms:
   • IMMATERIAL
   • intangible, nonphysical
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • IMMATERIAL
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
   Examples:
   • Material needs
   • The moral and material welfare of all good citizens- T.Roosevelt
   Antonyms:
   • Mental
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Corporeal
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • having material or physical form or substance
   Examples:
   • That which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible - Benjamin Jowett
   Antonyms:
   • POREAL
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Substantial
   • Real
   • Material
   Definitions:
   • having substance or capable of being treated as fact
   • not imaginary
   Examples:
   • The substantial world
   • A mere dream, neither substantial nor practical
   • Most ponderous and substantial things- Shakespeare
   Antonyms:
   • STANTIAL