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Results for: "material"

Translating from English to Catalan

Translations:

material — matter, substance
→ material m
→ matèria
material — cloth, fabric
→ drap
→ roba
material — related to matter
→ material

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (5)

1. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;
- Example: "coal is a hard black material"
- Example: "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
[syn: material, stuff]

2. information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form;
- Example: "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"

3. artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;
- Example: "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"
- Example: "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"
- Example: "she measured off enough material for a dress"
[syn: fabric, cloth, material, textile]

4. things needed for doing or making something;
- Example: "writing materials"
- Example: "useful teaching materials"

5. a person judged suitable for admission or employment;
- Example: "he was university material"
- Example: "she was vice-presidential material"


ADJECTIVE (6)

1. concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests;
- Example: "material possessions"
- Example: "material wealth"
- Example: "material comforts"

2. derived from or composed of matter;
- Example: "the material universe"

3. directly relevant to a matter especially a law case;
- Example: "his support made a material difference"
- Example: "evidence material to the issue at hand"
- Example: "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"
- Example: "a material witness"

4. concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being;
- Example: "material needs"
- Example: "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"- T.Roosevelt

5. having material or physical form or substance;
- Example: "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett;
[syn: corporeal, material]

6. having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary;
- Example: "the substantial world"
- Example: "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"
- Example: "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare
[syn: substantial, real, material]