Synonyms: 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
Synonyms: material
Definition: things needed for doing or making something
Usage: writing materials; useful teaching materials
Similar words: equipment
Definition: an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: info, information
Definition: a message received and understood
Synonyms: material
Definition: a person judged suitable for admission or employment
Usage: he was university material; she was vice-presidential material
Similar words: applicant, applier
Definition: a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission
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
Similar words: substance
Definition: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
Usage: DNA is the substance of our genes
Synonyms: material
Definition: derived from or composed of matter
Usage: the material universe
Similar words: physical
Definition: having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses
Usage: a physical manifestation; surrounded by tangible objects
Similar words: physical
Definition: concerned with material things
Usage: physical properties; the physical characteristics of the earth; the physical size of a computer
Definition: having material or physical form or substance
Usage: that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible - Benjamin Jowett
Similar words: bodily
Definition: having or relating to a physical material body
Usage: bodily existence
Similar words: bodied, incarnate, embodied, corporal, corporate
Definition: possessing or existing in bodily form
Usage: what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind- Shakespeare; an incarnate spirit; `corporate' is an archaic term
Similar words: reincarnate
Definition: having a new body
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: crucial
Definition: having crucial relevance
Usage: crucial to the case; relevant testimony
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: physical
Definition: involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit
Usage: physical exercise; physical suffering; was sloppy about everything but her physical appearance
Synonyms: material
Definition: concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
Usage: material possessions; material wealth; material comforts
Similar words: secular, worldly, temporal
Definition: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
Usage: worldly goods and advancement; temporal possessions of the church