单词 | materialize |
释义 | materializev. I. Senses relating to material or physical form. 1. transitive. To make material or represent in material form; to give or ascribe a physical existence to; to invest with material attributes. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > render material [verb (transitive)] immerse1605 clod1610 material1643 corporify1644 terrestrify1646 corporize1691 materialize1710 terrestrialize1829 reify1854 thingify1871 sensualize1884 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 154. ⁋6 Virgil..having with wonderful Art and Beauty materializ'd (if I may so call it) a Scheme of abstracted Notions. 1713 A. Pope & R. Steele in Guardian 28 Sept. 1/2 By this means we materialize our Ideas, and make them as lasting as the Ink and Paper. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vii. 517 As the Peripaletic system has a tendency to materialize the mind..so the Cartesian has a tendency to spiritualize body. 1843 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 8 Apr. in Amer. Notebks. (1972) vi. 370 I had the glimmering of an idea, and endeavored to materialize it in words. 1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation iii. 50 Those who would materialize spirit. 1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) ii. 76 He insists on having all things materialised before his eyes in Nature. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson ii. 7 All the colours of the rainbow, materialised by modistes, were there. 1955 P. Heron Changing Forms Art 99 The measure of Picasso's genius lies not so much in his having the freedom of remote regions of mind and spirit as in his power to materialize his sense of what he finds there. 2. a. transitive. Spiritualism. To cause (a spirit, etc.) to appear in bodily form. In extended use (esp. in Conjuring): to make something (seem to) appear. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [verb (transitive)] > cause to materialize materialize1840 precipitate1891 1840 R. Browning Sordello v. 178 Were you the first who got, to use plain speech, The Multitude to be materialized? 1881 Dr. Gheist 39 Mr. Faxton firmly believed..that the spirits of the dead may become materialised. 1882 Conf. Medium 46 Bunches of artificial flowers were either materialised or levitated. 1885 J. G. Whittier Let. June in Writings (1889) VI. 314 A Newbury minister..rode..over to Hampton to lay a ghost who had materialized himself. 1969 A. MacLean Puppet on Chain iv. 60 With the masonic legerdemain known only to doormen, he materialised a taxi out of nowhere. 1983 A. Mason Illusionist i. 15 He had astonished thousands by materialising objects out of nothing. 1986 Sci. Amer. Aug. 10/1 I shall assume here that the magician can materialize at least a microcomputer. b. intransitive. Spiritualism. To assume a bodily form. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [verb (intransitive)] > of spirit: take bodily form materialize1884 1884 B. Matthews in Harper's Mag. May 911/1 The..ghosts..gave dark séances and manifested and materialized. 1926 A. Conan Doyle Hist. Spiritualism I. xii. 268 A giant Indian named Santum and an Indian squaw named Honto, who materialized so completely and so often that the audience may well have been excused if they forgot sometimes that they were dealing with spirits at all. 1990 L. Picknett Encycl. Paranormal 16/1 The dead materialised in full form, often reeking of the grave. c. intransitive. Chiefly colloquial (originally U.S.). To come into perceptible existence; to become actual fact; to arrive, appear, or be present when expected; to turn up. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] becomec888 i-tidec888 falleOE ywortheOE i-limp975 belimpOE i-timeOE worthOE tidea1131 goa1200 arearc1275 syec1275 betide1297 fere1297 risea1350 to come aboutc1350 overcomea1382 passa1393 comea1400 to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400 eschew?a1400 chevec1400 shapec1400 hold1462 to come (also go) to pass1481 proceed?1518 occura1522 bechance1527 overpass1530 sorta1535 succeed1537 adventurec1540 to fall toc1540 success1545 to fall forth1569 fadge1573 beword?1577 to fall in1578 happen1580 event1590 arrive1600 offer1601 grow1614 fudge1615 incur1626 evene1654 obvene1654 to take place1770 transpire1775 to go on1873 to show up1879 materialize1885 break1914 cook1932 to go down1946 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > come into perceptible existence or materialize [verb (intransitive)] sprout1563 eventualize1853 materialize1885 1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains i. 18 Some fifteen or twenty hounds that suddenly materialized among the bee-hives and the althea bushes. 1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 741 Year after year passed and these promises failed to materialise. 1900 Spectator 6 Oct. 445 Out of the mist of notes and protocols..a policy seems gradually to be materialising. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxiii. 369 The velvet carpet with the pink roses and the pink silk curtains of Anne's early visions had certainly never materialized. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 160 I was always being promised things which never materialized. 1994 P. Grescoe Blood Vessel 15 A tuxedoed waiter materialized at her elbow. 3. intransitive. Science Fiction. To appear in a (reconstituted) physical form after travelling through space or time by means of a matter transmitter or similar device. Also transitive. ΚΠ 1927 B. Witwer in Amazing Stories July 371/2 Some weeks previously I had finally succeeded in transmitting a small wooden ball by radio. Perhaps I should say that I had ‘dissolved’ it into its vibrations, for it was not until this later day that I had been able to materialize or ‘receive’ it after it had been ‘sent’. 1937 E. F. Russell & L. T. Johnson in Astounding Stories July 143/1 ‘How did you know that I am a time traveler?’ I demanded. ‘Because your time-traveling device materialized out of thin air before the eyes of half a hundred citizens’. 1964 G. Roddenberry in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ (1968) 48 We get our first look at this procedure, too, as it beams them to materialize on the planet surface far below. 1992 N. Stephenson Snow Crash 34 You can't just materialize anywhere in the Metaverse, like Captain Kirk beaming down from on high. 2003 T. Campbell My Big Toe 143 Warp speed is perhaps not important if you can simply materialize yourself and your spaceship from any space-time-reality to any other space-time-reality. 4. intransitive. Particle Physics. Of photons: to be transformed into particles with rest mass. Usually with into. ΚΠ 1971 Sci. Amer. July 98/1 Positron-electron annihilation can also yield a single virtual photon that, if it has sufficient energy, can then materialize directly into another particle-antiparticle pair. 1983 Sci. Amer. July 101/3 Sometimes an electron and a positron will annihilate each other to form a photon, which can materialize into a quark-antiquark pair. 1998 Astrophysical Jrnl. 497 563 These relativistic electrons/positrons scatter background photons to produce high-energy γ-rays that can materialize as pairs by colliding with background photons. II. Senses relating to materialism. 5. transitive. To make materialistic. Also intransitive: to favour materialistic views. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > come into perceptible existence or materialize [verb (intransitive)] > be materialistic materialize1820 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > render material [verb (transitive)] > make materialistic carnalize1685 sensualize1775 materialize1820 1820 [see materializing n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1836 Fraser's Mag. 13 249 The public mind is not yet so thoroughly materialised by long dealing with..exact sciences [etc.]. 1840 W. E. Gladstone Church Princ. 182 Those who materialise in religion. 1842 C. G. F. Gore Fascination 144 A soul materialized by gluttony. 1867 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. iv. 280 That disposition to materialize spiritual truth, which seems to be..natural to the mind of man. 1882 M. Arnold Irish Ess. 121 The system..tends to materialize our upper class, vulgarize our middle class, brutalize our lower class. Derivatives maˈterialized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > making material > made material corporized1662 corporified1680 materialized1845 reified1896 corporealized- the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [adjective] > of or relating to materialization (of spirit) > materialized materialized1845 1845 Ladies' Repository May 143 How can the spiritual be grafted on materialized faculties and affections? 1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. iv The gold which modern society finds to be more precious than..all that was held precious in less materialised times. 1985 O. Imasogie Afr. Trad. Relig. (ed. 2) iii. 36 These egunguns or masquerades are supposed to be ‘materialized’ spirits of the dead. maˈterializing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > making material corporificative1651 corporifying1662 corporealizing1797 materializing1817 reificatory1935 the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > a spiritual body > causing to appear materializing1817 1817–19 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1998) IV. 786 The Wierd [sic] Sisters..—the Fates, the Furies, and the materializing Witches being the elements. 1820 A. Ranken Hist. France VIII. iv. 370 The Epicurean or materialising tendencies of his immediate predecessor Gassendi. 1874 W. E. Gladstone in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 677 The materializing tendencies of the age. 1956 R. M. Lester Towards Hereafter i. 25 This..is very far advanced above the usual type of materializing phenomena of the present day. 1980 D. Bolinger Language vii. 59 Once he names and reports it, Bentham's axiom comes into play: the name certifies the reality. We call this reification, the materializing of abstractions. 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