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material

US: /məˈtɪɹiəɫ/

UK: /mətˈi‍əɹɪə‍l/

English Vietnamese dictionary

material /mə'tiəriəl/

tính từ
- vật chất
  - material world: thế giới vật chất
- (thuộc) thân thể, (thuộc) xác thịt
- hữu hình, cụ thể, thực chất
  - a material being: vật hữu hình
- quan trọng, trọng đại, cần thiết
  - food is most material to man: thức ăn hết sức cần thiết đối với con người

danh từ
- chất, tài liệu, nguyên liệu, vật liệu
  - raw materials: nguyên liệu
  - materials for a book: tài liệu để viết một cuốn sách
- vải

Advanced English dictionary

noun, adjective
+ noun
1 [U, C] cloth used for making clothes, curtains, etc.
Synonym: FABRIC
a piece of material + 'What material is this dress made of?' 'Cotton.'
2 [C, U] a substance that things can be made from: building materials (= bricks, sand, glass, etc.) + Oil is the raw material for plastic.
3 [C, usually pl., U] things that are needed in order to do a particular activity: teaching materials + The company produces its own training material. + (figurative) The teacher saw her as good university material (= good enough to go to university).
4 [U] information or ideas used in books, etc: She's collecting material for her latest novel.
5 [U] items used in a performance: The band played all new material at the gig.
+ adjective
1 [only before noun] connected with money, possessions, etc. rather than with the needs of the mind or spirit: material comforts + changes in your material circumstances
Antonym: SPIRITUAL
2 [only before noun] connected with the physical world rather than with the mind or spirit: the material world
Antonym: IMMATERIAL
3 ~ (to sth) (formal or law) important and needing to be considered: material evidence + She omitted information that was material to the case.
See also - IMMATERIAL
materially adverb: Materially they are no better off. + Their comments have not materially affected our plans (= in a noticeable or important way).

Thesaurus dictionary

1 substance, matter, stuff, fabric:

It is hard to tell what material this is made of.

2 cloth, fabric, textile, stuff:

This material is too sheer for a dress.

3 constituents, elements, components:

We import the raw materials and make the finished product here.

4 information, data, facts, statistics, figures, documents, documentation, papers, notes, resources, means, research, apparatus, supplies:

I have not yet gathered enough material for the article.

adj.

5 physical, tangible, concrete, solid, real, substantive, substantial, palpable, corporeal, bodily:

It was many years before scientists could persuade people that air is a material substance

6 consequential, important, significant, serious, substantial:

How could one horseshoe nail be material in the outcome of a battle?

7 worldly, earthly, mundane, temporal, non-spiritual, secular, lay, materialistic:

He ponders the abstract, not the base, material things of everyday life.

Collocation dictionary

¹ substance

ADJ.

combustible, flammable, hazardous, inflammable, radioactive, toxic | recyclable | man-made

² things for making sth

ADJ.

raw

Higher raw material costs have pushed up the price of many manufactured goods.

| industrial | building

a storeroom full of building materials

| drawing, writing

Prisoners were not allowed writing materials.

³ cloth

ADJ.

thick, thin | coarse, fine | woven

QUANT.

length, piece, roll, scrap, strip

A patchwork quilt is a good way of using up scraps of material.

⁴ written matter

ADJ.

fascinating, good, relevant, useful | source

The letter were used as source material in this new biography.

He was convicted of importing indecent material.

VERB + MATERIAL

collect, find, gather, get hold of

He's collecting material for a new book on space travel. I can't find any relevant material on him in the library.

| contain, include

This new biography contains a wealth of previously unpublished material.

| produce, publish

PREP.

~ for

useful material for a documentary

| ~ on

original material on the First World War

Concise English dictionary

materialsmətɪrɪəl /'tɪər
noun
+the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
+information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
+things needed for doing or making something
+artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
+a person judged suitable for admission or employment
adj.
+concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
+derived from or composed of matter
+directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
+concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
+having material or physical form or substance
+having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary