Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
material needs
Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
material cause
A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.
To form from matter; to materialize.
From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”...
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A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
boy/girlfriend material
Apparatus for doing or making something.
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.
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.