Definitions for materials

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materials ma·te·ri·al

Spelling: [muh-teer-ee-uh l]

IPA: /məˈtɪər i əl/

Materials is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 823 anagrams from letters in materials (aaeilmrst).

Definitions for materials

noun

1. the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed:
2. anything that serves as crude or raw matter to be used or developed:
3. any constituent element.
4. a textile fabric:
5. a group of ideas, facts, data, etc., that may provide the basis for or be incorporated into some integrated work:
6. materials, the articles or apparatus needed to make or do something:
7. a person considered as having qualities suited to a particular sphere of activity:

adjective

1. formed or consisting of matter; physical; corporeal:
2. relating to, concerned with, or involving matter:
3. pertaining to the physical rather than the spiritual or intellectual aspect of things:
4. pertaining to or characterized by an undue interest in corporeal things; unspiritual.
5. of substantial import; of much consequence; important:
6. pertinent or essential (usually followed by to):
7. Law. likely to influence the determination of a case:
8. Philosophy. of or relating to matter as distinguished from form.

Origin of materials

1300-50; Middle English Late Latin māteriālis of, belonging to matter. See matter, -al¹

Examples for materials

It is not so much a book as it is materials for ornamenting a book.

Mention some of the materials that may be put into the stock pot.

Most people could agree on whether a given configuration of materials is a functioning vehicle or a useless set of parts.

There has been staggering loss of life and measureless wastage of materials.

The Indian rarely needs to hunt for the materials he requires.

How do you find the materials, and how do you manage to get them across New York to the sites?

The collective stresses that it has no intentions of museum-izing the materials it has gathered.

Standards are a little sloppier when it comes to Christian materials.

“Our volunteers donate their time, materials, and use of their 3-D printers to create them,” Jen Owen, a member of e-NABLE, said.

He had his materials to work upon, and may have done the best that any one could with them.