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material

Material is the things or ideas that are used in making or doing something. The raw materials for the goods are mostly imported from Canada. After the earthquake, it took a long time to rebuild because the building materials were often unavailable. He spent a year researching and gathering material before writing the book.

material

Material things are things in the real world, often money. If something is material, it is big and important.

material

(= stuff) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object coal is a hard black material wheat is the stuff they use to make bread information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography (= fabric, cloth) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC she measured off enough material for a dress concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests material possessions material wealth material comforts things needed for doing or making something writing materials useful teaching materials derived from or composed of matter the material universe directly relevant to a matter especially a law case his support made a material difference evidence material to the issue at hand facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts a material witness concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being material needs the moral and material welfare of all good citizens — T.Roosevelt a person judged suitable for admission or employment he was university material she was vice-presidential material (= corporeal) having material or physical form or substance that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible — Benjamin Jowett (= substantial) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary the substantial world a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical most ponderous and substantial things — Shakespeare

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Simple sentences

Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
These two shirts are made from the same material.
Not material, but spiritual things determine our live.
This material will stand up to lots of washings.
This material never wears out.
This material is not suitable for a dress.
This material stretches easily.
I want a suit made of this material.
I'm going to make this material into a skirt.
I want to buy this material for a new dress. How much does it cost?
This swimming suit is made of elastic material.
Translating this material calls for a lot of patience.
This material has no give.
What's the material?
Another interesting source of energy is the heat that can be recovered from radioactive waste material.
This is a crude material imported from Malaysia.
They gave him both material and spiritual support.
She is collecting material for a book.
This packaging material provides heat insulation.
You can study IP related material during work hours when you have time to spare.
This site contains sexually explicit material and is intended for adults only.

Movie subtitles

With the vertical gun loaded and the impact chamber set, it's time to test and see if the organic material laced onto the projectile can survive a high-speed impact.
Then. what kind of material should we use for the coffin?
I'm running out of material.
Turn the material over to Division 3 and wait downstairs.
They gave it up because it destroyed the material.
But listen, Henry Frankenstein, while you were digging in your graves piecing together dead tissues, I, my dear pupil, went for my material to the source of life.
You can't mend machines without tools or material.
Confound your silly war and your war material and all the rest of it.
He wants my factories to stop producing war material.
Really, Mr. Cheyne, Harvey is great material.
We'd control every type of war material.
As basic material, you may not be bad.
What good material.
Now, that kind of material needs plenty of delicate handling.
Let's all swear to unite the East's spiritual values with the material ones of the West.
The image and sound of the documentary material were recorded on location using the Shorin system in mines, factories and other real locations.
Now we're going to see more physical effects - mostly wire effects - coming up to get material out of his room and down to the street.
I, my dear pupil, went for my material to the source of life.
You see, there's plenty of material.
We'd control every type of war material. - That's exactly it.
We've got enough on her already to hold her as a material witness.
The material is as light as silk.
The rest of the material - which is missing - must be regarded as lost for ever.
This reconstruction of the film has been based on the only existing material.
It's gonna hurt the material.
And remember, plenty of suture material.
Look at this. - What good material.
A bulletproof uniform. The material is as light as silk.
I'm sorry, madam, but you must realize the material in that dress is very unusual.
Nice material.
Very nice material.
I don't want to push you one way or the other, but if you are interested, I have some other material.
Mothers' Aid teaches Erna to make toys out of discarded material.
What puzzles me is the world is full of so much better material, why me?

News and current affairs

Ghana certainly needs to develop economically, because material wealth is required to improve health, provide education, and sustain democracy.
But, despite modest material support, the US could not sustain a government that could not sustain itself.
Moreover, the time to test readiness of the Nevada test site has been moved up from three years to two years, and funding has been provided to produce additional fissile material for new nuclear weapons.
Europol is performing a similar function with material derived from police work, and we are working to ensure synergy between these two efforts.
Secondly, the Pope recognized the most important problem of Poland and many other young democracies -- the collapse, in the face of material prosperity, of the sense of community.
Now they are ignored as we, solitarily, grub for the rewards of our material freedom.
He was equally indifferent to his people's material welfare and anything particular about the design of a viable political and economic system.
As a result, cities in those countries were flattened and people killed not only by the Nazis, but also by their Soviet ally, which invaded Poland and supplied the Wehrmacht with the material it needed for its war against the West.
Early biologists and agriculturists carried out selection for desired traits, generating poorly understood changes in the organisms' genetic material.
Internet access could provide educational material and improve schooling.
In the Guantanamo Bay case, by contrast, the Bush Administration argued that a ruling for the detainees would undermine the war effort by diverting manpower and material from the battlefield to the courtroom.
Leaving material imprints is contra-indicated.
Nor should the possibility be ruled out that Iran might be tempted to back its regional ambitions by supplying nuclear material to proxy terrorist groups.
This new, aggressive inspection strategy had dramatic consequences: Kay discovered material which confirmed that Iraq was only 12 to 18 months away from producing a nuclear device.
Shortly thereafter, researchers in the United States found a related material that superconducts above the temperature at which air liquefies.
China can purchase more industrial machinery, transport equipment, and steelmaking material, which are among its leading imports from the US.
Some of this we understand, but most of the material in the universe, and the forces associated with it, are not well explained.
Moreover, American journalists know perfectly well that they, too, traffic in classified material constantly - indeed, many prominent US reporters have built lucrative careers doing exactly what Assange is doing.
Singapore's humming economy, material comfort, and smooth efficiency seem to confirm the view of many that authoritarianism works better than democracy, at least in some parts of the world.
The captured uranium was not weapons-grade; international inspectors removed all sensitive material from Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War (which is why it was absent when the United States invaded in 2003).
Furthermore, industry should seek new applications for recycled materials, while minimizing the amount of virgin material used.
Most American journalists fully understand that Assange did not illegally obtain classified material; the criminally liable party is whoever released the material to the site.

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