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materialize - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cause to become real or actual.
- intransitive verb To cause to become materialistic.
- intransitive verb To come into existence; become real.
- intransitive verb To appear, especially suddenly: synonym: appear.
- intransitive verb To take physical form or shape. Used especially of a spirit or ghost.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give a material form or bodily existence to; make physically perceptible; embody in any manner. See II.
- To give the character of metaphysical materialism to; render materialistic.
- To reduce to a material basis or standard; treat as pertaining only to matter; give a material character to; make material, low, coarse, sensual, etc.: as, to
materialize thought, morality, or mythology; to materialize one's ideas or enjoyments. - To become material; assume a material form; in recent spiritualistic use, to assume, as a spirit or immaterial entity, a form which is perceptible by the senses, or one that is visible, tangible, and (in the case of supposed spirits) capable of physical exertion.
- To take form or shape; come into perceptible existence; become real: as, the project has not yet materialized.
- Also spelled
materialise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb colloq. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
- intransitive verb To come into existence.
- transitive verb To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
- transitive verb To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- transitive verb To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests.
- transitive verb (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, US To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
- verb intransitive, US To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
- verb Alternative spelling of
materialise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb come into being; become reality
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Will Keep Its Secrets To mark the 84th anniversary of Harry Houdini's death, one of the magician's most famous props will materialize from a New York City magic shop as a key part of a new exhibit.
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On the other hand, regarding fiction writing in general -- art doesn't materialize from a vacuum.
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Then – boom – a strong concept seemed to materialize from the ether.
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I had seen a story materialize from a mere phone call and followed it first hand, all the way to the op-ed page of the Post.
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I had seen a story materialize from a mere phone call and followed it first hand, all the way to the op-ed page of the Post.
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I had seen a story materialize from a mere phone call and followed it first hand, all the way to the op-ed page of the Post.
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I had seen a story materialize from a mere phone call and followed it first hand, all the way to the op-ed page of the Post.
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I had seen a story materialize from a mere phone call and followed it first hand, all the way to the op-ed page of the Post.
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I had seen a story materialize from a mere phone call and followed it first hand, all the way to the op-ed page of the Post.
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I had seen a story materialize from a mere phone call and followed it first hand, all the way to the op-ed page of the Post.
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Words with the same meaning
- affect
- appear
- approach
- arise
- be found
- be realized
- be revealed
- become manifest
- become visible
- betoken
- betray itself
- body
- body forth
- brandish
- breathe
- bring forth
- bring forward
- bring into view
- bring out
- bring to notice
- chance
- come
- come along
- come forth
- come forward
- come in sight
- come into being
- come into existence
- come on
- come out
- come to hand
- come to light
- come to pass
- concretize
- constitute
- corporealize
- corporify
- crop out
- crop up
- dangle
- demonstrate
- develop
- disclose
- discover itself
- display
- divulge
- dramatize
- draw on
- effect
- effectuate
- embody
- emerge
- enact
- enter
- entify
- establish
- evidence
- evince
- exhibit
- expose to view
- express
- exteriorize
- externalize
- externate
- externize
- fade in
- flaunt
- flourish
- form
- found
- give sign
- give token
- hang out
- happen
- have no secrets
- heave in sight
- highlight
- hypostatize
- illuminate
- inaugurate
- incarnate
- incept
- incorporate
- indicate
- install
- institute
- issue
- issue forth
- lend substance to
- look forth
- loom
- make clear
- make plain
- manifest
- materiate
- mean
- objectify
- occur
- open up
- organize
- outcrop
- parade
- peep out
- perform
- personalize
- personify
- pop up
- precipitate
- present
- present itself
- produce
- realize
- rear its head
- reembody
- reify
- reincarnate
- represent
- reveal
- rise
- roll out
- see the light
- set forth
- set up
- shape
- shape up
- show
- show forth
- show up
- solidify
- speak out
- speak up
- spotlight
- spring
- spring up
- stream forth
- strike the eye
- substantialize
- substantiate
- substantify
- take a stand
- take form
- take place
- take shape
- token
- transmigrate
- trot out
- turn up
- typify
- unfold
- wave
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