material
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Is material a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.Examples: "material cause"; "the material aspect of being"
2. (especially law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.Examples: "found a material difference between two things"; "You've made several material contributions to this project."; "This is the most material fact in this lawsuit."Antonyms: immaterialespecially
3. (obsolete) Full of substance or otherwise meaning.Synonyms: bulky, massive, solid, meatyobsolete
4. (obsolete) In an important degree.obsolete
noun (English)
1. (sometimes collective, preceded by a qualifying word) A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.Examples: "boy/girlfriend material"; "marriage material"; "We have lots of presidential material in various public offices."collectivecountablesometimesuncountable
2. (usually plural) Apparatus for doing or making something.Examples: "Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."countablepluraluncountableusually
3. (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.countableuncountable
4. (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.countableuncountable
5. (Ireland, now rare) The ingredients for making whisky punch.Synonyms: mattsIrelandarchaiccountableuncountable
6. (rare) The materiel of an army.countablerareuncountable
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.Examples: "I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life."obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary