material

materials
Noun
1. 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"
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2. 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"
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3. things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"
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4. 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"
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5. a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"
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Adjective
1. concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"
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2. derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe"
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3. 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"
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4. 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
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5. having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
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6. 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
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