noun. The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made.

noun. Something, such as an idea or information, that is to be refined and made or incorporated into a finished effort.

noun. Tools or apparatus for the performance of a given task.

noun. Yard goods or cloth.

noun. A person who is qualified or suited for a position or activity.

adjective. Of, relating to, or composed of matter.

adjective. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; bodily.

adjective. Of or concerned with the physical as distinct from the intellectual or spiritual.

adjective. Being both relevant and consequential; crucial: synonym: relevant.

adjective. Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, rather than the form.

To render material; materialize.

Consisting of matter; of a physical nature; not spiritual: as, material elements; a material body.

Relating to or connected with matter; concerned with organic nature; affecting corporeal things or interests: as, material existence or well-being.

Hence Corporeal; sensuous; sensual; gross: as, material delights.

Pertaining to the matter or subject; of substantial import or consequence; essential; necessary; important.

Full of matter, or of solid sense and observation.

In philosophy, consisting in or pertaining to matter in the Aristotelian sense, and not to form; arising from matter of positive fact, and not from logical implication; referring to the object as it exists, and not to distinctions originating in the mind; relating to a word as an object, and not to its meaning.

In the law of evidence, of legal significance in the cause; having such a relation to the question in controversy that it may or ought to have some influence on the determination of the cause. See immaterial issue, under issue.

The material modes affect the matter of the enunciation, viz. either the subject or the predicate. For example, in this enunciation, A good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep, the word bonus or good is the mode of the subject. In this, A rhetorician speaks ornately and copiously, ornately and copiously are the modes of the predicate. Burgersdicius, tr. by a Gentleman.

noun. Component or contributory matter or substance; that of or with which any corporeal thing is or may be constituted, made, or done: as, the materials of the soil or of disintegrated rocks; wool is the material of cloth; building- or writing-materials; war-material.

noun. A constituent principle or element; that which composes or makes a part of anything: as, the material of one's thoughts; the materials of a drama.

noun. The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

noun. any crude, unfinished, or elementary materials that are adapted to use only by processes of skilled labor. .

transitive verb. To form from matter; to materialize.

adjective. Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical.

adjective. Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.

adjective. Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of consequence; not be dispensed with; important; significant.

adjective. Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.

adjective. See under Cause.

adjective. evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis.

adjective. Having to do with matter.

adjective. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.

adjective. Significant.

noun. Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.

noun. Text written for a specific purpose.

noun. A sample or specimens for study.

noun. Cloth to be made into a garment.

noun. A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.

verb. To form from matter; to materialize.

adjective. directly relevant to a matter especially a law case

noun. things needed for doing or making something

noun. artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

adjective. concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being

noun. information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form

noun. a person judged suitable for admission or employment

noun. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

adjective. having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary

adjective. having material or physical form or substance

adjective. concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

adjective. derived from or composed of matter

"If the pigeonholes are arranged in alphabetical order, for example, he may find all related material, _provided he knows the name of every related group of material_, even though very similar things may bear names as far apart as A and Z."

immaterial  mental  moral  spiritual  

considerable  important  material acceptation  material being  material cause  

bodied  bodily  corporal  corporate  crucial  

material breach  material girl  material science  material world  materials science  

applicant  applier  

antibacterial  arterial  bacterial  biomaterial  cereal  

Spam  appearance  battalions'  corn  equipment  

Adamic  Circean  Formica  Masonite  Philistine  

matter