Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
- S: (n) 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"
- S: (n) material (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"
- S: (n) fabric, cloth, material, textile (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"
- S: (n) material (things needed for doing or making something) "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"
- S: (n) material (a person judged suitable for admission or employment) "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"
- S: (adj) material (concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests) "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"
- S: (adj) material (derived from or composed of matter) "the material universe"
- S: (adj) material (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"
- S: (adj) material (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
- S: (adj) corporeal, material (having material or physical form or substance) "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
- S: (adj) substantial, real, material (having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary) "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "The wind was violent and felt substantial enough to lean against"