Main entry: fabric, material, cloth, textile
Definition: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
Usage: 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
Main entry: material
Definition: things needed for doing or making something
Usage: writing materials; useful teaching materials
Main entry: material
Definition: information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
Usage: the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography
Main entry: material
Definition: a person judged suitable for admission or employment
Usage: he was university material; she was vice-presidential material
Definition: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
Usage: coal is a hard black material; wheat is the stuff they use to make bread
Main entry: real, material, substantial
Definition: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
Usage: the substantial world; a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical; most ponderous and substantial things- Shakespeare
Main entry: material
Definition: derived from or composed of matter
Usage: the material universe
Main entry: corporeal, material
Definition: having material or physical form or substance
Usage: that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible - Benjamin Jowett
Main entry: material
Definition: directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
Usage: 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
Main entry: material
Definition: concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
Usage: material needs; the moral and material welfare of all good citizens- T.Roosevelt
Main entry: material
Definition: concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
Usage: material possessions; material wealth; material comforts