How to pronounce “material”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
• Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
• (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
• (especially law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
• Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
• (obsolete) Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
• (obsolete) In an important degree.
• [Noun]
• A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
• (sometimes collective, preceded by a qualifying word) A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
• (usually plural) Apparatus for doing or making something.
• Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
• Cloth to be made into a garment; woven fabric.
• The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
• (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
• (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
• (Ireland, now rare) The ingredients for making whisky punch.
• (rare) The materiel of an army.
• (obsolete) Things that are material.
• [Verb]
• (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.

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