单词 | materialize |
释义 | materialize (once / 2838 pages) v When you materialize, you show up suddenly after being missing, unborn, or unseen. Think of Harry Potter removing his invisibility cloak. He materializes. Living things aren't the only things that materialize. Car keys and reading glasses materialize when you've been searching for them for a while and then they are suddenly there on the table. If you're lucky an unexpected business deal will materialize. Like material, the word is related to the Latin word meaning "matter." Matter, is, of course, all the stuff of this earth, anything and everything that takes form. So to materialize is to take form. WORD FAMILYmaterialize: dematerialize, materialization, materialized, materializes, materializing+/dematerialise: dematerialised, dematerialises/dematerialize: dematerialized, dematerializes, dematerializing/immaterial: immaterialise, immateriality, immaterialize, immaterially/immaterialise: immaterialised/immaterialize: immaterialized, immaterializes/material: immaterial, materialise, materialism, materiality, materialize, materially, materials, nonmaterial/materialisation: materialisations/materialise: dematerialise, materialisation, materialised, materialises, materialising/materialism: materialisms, materialist, materialistic/materialist: materialists/materialistic: materialistically/materiality: materialities/materialization: materializations USAGE EXAMPLESBut Dayton vetoed the package due to a costly wording error, and plans to revive it in special session never materialized. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Not surprisingly, the supposed connection between greater prosperity and democratic politics failed to materialize. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) In 1957, the New York Times opined in a front-page article, “It is highly improbably that the Second Avenue subway will ever materialize.’ Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) v come into being; become reality Her dream really materialized Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper happen, materialise dematerialise, dematerialize become immaterial; disappear appear, come out be issued or published come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place come to pass |
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