material

Definitions of material in various dictionaries:

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

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

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

noun - things needed for doing or making something

noun - a person judged suitable for admission or employment

adj - concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

adj - derived from or composed of matter

adj - directly relevant to a matter especially a law case

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

adj - having material or physical form or substance

adj - having substance or capable of being treated as fact

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

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

Yard goods or cloth.

A person who is qualified or suited for a position or activity: The members of the board felt that she was vice-presidential material.

Of, relating to, or composed of matter.

Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; bodily: “the moral and material welfare of all good citizens” (Theodore Roosevelt).

Of or concerned with the physical as distinct from the intellectual or spiritual: “Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

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

noun - the substance of which anything is or may be composed

MATERIAL - Material is a broad term for a chemical substance or mixture of substances that constitute a thing. In the metaphysical sense, materials can be anyth...