MATERIAL


Meaning of MATERIAL in English

n. & adj.

--n.

1. the matter from which a thing is made.

2 cloth, fabric.

3 (in pl.) things needed for an activity (building materials; cleaning materials; writing materials).

4 a person or thing of a specified kind or suitable for a purpose (officer material).

5 (in sing. or pl.) information etc. to be used in writing a book etc. (experimental material; materials for a biography).

6 (in sing. or pl., often foll. by of) the elements or constituent parts of a substance.

--adj.

1. of matter; corporeal.

2 concerned with bodily comfort etc. (material well-being).

3 (of conduct, points of view, etc.) not spiritual.

4 (often foll. by to) important, essential, relevant (at the material time).

5 concerned with the matter, not the form, of reasoning.

Derivatives:

materiality n.

Etymology: ME f. OF materiel, -al, f. LL materialis f. L (as MATTER)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.