material
材料,材质,资料,物质
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : 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: 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.
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Examples
This is because all three used the same materials and pedagogical approach.
Facebook Business Suite has the potential to make them better social media marketers, which could then have a material impact on SMB sales — and survival.
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.
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.
NASA will sort out any retrieval plans for the material at a later date.
The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.
The genetic material can grow quickly, but are typically riddled with errors or defects.
Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
Where the U.S. once depended on its own forces to determine who was military material, this time the Iraqis will decide.
In any case, some enterprising independent producer might have enough material for a reality-show pilot.
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.
The sleeves of his doublet which protruded from his leather casing were of the same colour and material as his trunks.
It makes out of the savage raw material which is our basal mental stuff, a citizen.
She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination.