the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
anything that serves as crude or raw matter to be used or developed: Wood pulp is the raw material from which paper is made.
any constituent element.
a textile fabric: material for a dress.
a group of ideas, facts, data, etc., that may provide the basis for or be incorporated into some integrated work: to gather material for a history of North Carolina; to write material for a comedy show.
materials,the articles or apparatus needed to make or do something: writing materials.
a person considered as having qualities suited to a particular sphere of activity: The boy's teachers did not think he was college material.
adjective
formed or consisting of matter; physical; corporeal: the material world.
relating to, concerned with, or involving matter: material forces.
pertaining to the physical rather than the spiritual or intellectual aspect of things: material comforts.
pertaining to or characterized by an undue interest in corporeal things; unspiritual.
of substantial import; of much consequence; important: Your support will make a material difference in the success of our program.
pertinent or essential (usually followed by to): a question not material to the subject at hand.
Law. likely to influence the determination of a case: material evidence.
Philosophy. of or relating to matter as distinguished from form.
Origin of material
1300–50; Middle English <Late Latin māteriālis of, belonging to matter. See matter, -al1
matelote, mater, mater dolorosa, materfamilias, materia alba, material, material cause, material culture, material implication, materialism, materialist
This is because all three used the same materials and pedagogical approach.
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The purse-size bag is made with whitewater-raft-shell material and eschews the typical roll-top or waterproof zipper for a double seal using strong magnets and Velcro.
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First, the placement of the audit report to be discussed on our committee’s website is behind some 300 pages of other material, as if someone were trying to bury it.
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NASA will sort out any retrieval plans for the material at a later date.
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The problem, of course, is that politicized ideas—religious and otherwise—are entangled with material problems.