| Main Entry: | material |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter, fabric |
Synonyms: |
being, body, bolt, cloth, component, constituent, crop, element, entity, equipment, gear, goods, habiliments, individual, ingredient, machinery, materiel, object, outfit, paraphernalia, staple, stock, stuff, substance, supply, tackle, textile, thing |
| Notes: | germane and relevant indicate pertinence to a matter, but may not be essential; material means pertinent and necessary material is based on Latin materialis 'formed of matter'; materiel means 'personnel' or 'military arms or equipment' |
| Main Entry: | material |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written matter |
Synonyms: |
data, evidence, facts, information, notes, reading, text, work |
| Main Entry: | materials |
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Adjectives: |
flat, aeneous, aerose, air, banausic, biodegradable, cardiform, castellated, chadless, chartaceous, close, druxy, edge, electromechanical, end, half, hooked, instrumental, kiln, knotty, laniferous, ligniperdous, machinal, maduro, mechanical, mechanomorphic, merdurinous, mixed, open, pergameneous, plumb, pressure, rabbeted, raw, semidetached, semigloss, spring, sumpter, systatic, tongue, triple, vertical
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| Concept: | Materials. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
Synonyms: |
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material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick; crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber., materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff; pabulum (food); ammunition (arms); contingents; relay, reenforcement; baggage (personal property); means; calico, cambric, cashmere.
-adjectives
raw (unprepared); wooden; adobe.
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| Main Entry: | armament(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon(s) |
Synonyms: |
ammunition, arms, defense, gun, hardware, heat*, material, materiel, munitions, ordnance, protection, security, weaponry |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk; central portion |
Synonyms: |
assembly, basis, bed, box, chassis, core, corpus, crux, essence, frame, fuselage, gist, gravamen, groundwork, hull, main part, majority, mass, material, matter, pith, skeleton, staple, substance, substructure, sum, tenor, total, trunk, whole |
Antonyms: |
nothing, nothingness |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | main part of written work |
Synonyms: |
argument, burden, core, discourse, dissertation, evidence, exposition, gist, heart, material, meat, pith, sense, substance, text, thesis, treatise, upshot |
| Main Entry: | cloth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fabric |
Synonyms: |
bolt, calico, cotton, dry goods, goods, material, stuff, synthetics, textiles, tissue, twill, weave, yard goods |
| Main Entry: | commodity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | merchandise, possession |
Synonyms: |
article, asset, belonging, chattel, goods, line, material, object, produce, product, property, specialty, stock, thing, vendible, ware |
| Main Entry: | contrivance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gadget |
Synonyms: |
apparatus, appliance, brainchild, coinage, contraption, convenience, creation, device, discovery, engine, equipment, gear, gimcrack, harness, implement, instrument, invention, machine, material, mechanism, tackle, thingamabob, thingamajig, tool, utensil, whatsis, widget |