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Definition of Material
Material

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.

Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.

Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.

The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

To form from matter; to materialize.

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Material Quotations

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
Steve Buscemi

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
Alfred Marshall

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.
Jim Hodges

Material Translations

material in Afrikaans is materieel
material in Dutch is stoffelijk, materieel
material in Finnish is kangas
material in German is Werkstoff, Material, Material
material in Italian is stoffa, materiale, materia, stoffa
material in Latin is materia
material in Spanish is pa o, material


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