realia
/reɪˈɑːlɪə
/ /rɪˈeɪlɪə /noun [mass noun]
Objects and material from everyday life used as teaching aids: the industrial English language course makes extensive and varied use of realia, such as specifications, extracts from company brochures, manuals, diagrams, etc....
- Teachers can provide this support by using the chalkboard, realia, and other visual aids.
- The trajectory of Ronell's writing is hard to chart because the centrifugal force of her thematic materials accelerates them into collisions with realia, whence new particles emerge.
- It also displays the tension between a traditional lexicon and evolving technology, where the obsolescence of a piece of equipment or a practice may leave specific terms without an underpinning in realia.
Origin
1950s: from late Latin, neuter plural (used as a noun) of realis 'relating to things' (see real1).
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- polychromatophile
- polychromatophilia
- polychromatophilic
- polychrome
- polychromic
- polychromism
- polychromist
- stick in one's throat (or craw)
- stick insect
- stick-in-the-mud
- stick it to
- stickleback
- stickler
- sticklike
- stick-nest rat
- stick one (or it) on
- stick one's neck out
- stick (or poke) one's bib in
- stick out
- stick out a mile
- stick out for
- stick out like a sore thumb
- stickpin
- sticks and stones may break my bones but names (or words) will never hurt me