material [ mə'tiəriəl] n.材料；素材a.物质的
material [mə'tɪərɪəl] n. 材料,原料
material [mə'tiəriəl] 资料
包工包料 contract for labor and materials
来料加工 process materials supplied by clients; accept customers' materials for processing
两手抓两手都要硬 We must address ourselves to the problem of both material and spiritual civilization(both material as well as culture and ideological progress) without any letup.
两个文明一起抓 place equal emphasis on material and ethical progress
三来一补企业 "the enterprises that process raw materials on clients' demands, assemble parts for the clients and process according to the clients' samples; or engage in compensation trade."
偷工减料 use inferior materials and turn out sub-standed products
物流 logistics; the interflow of goods and materials
物质文明 material progress
物质文明建设和精神文明建设一起抓 pay attention to ethical as well as material progress
一手抓物质文明，一手抓精神文明；一手抓经济建设，一手抓民主法制；一手抓改革开放，一手抓打击犯罪惩治腐败 We must always work for material progress and at the same time for cultural and ethical progress; We should develop the economy and at the same time strengthen democracy and the legal system; We should promote reform and opening to the outside world and at the same time fight crime and punish corruption.
Overseas Building Materials and Equipment Corporation 对外建筑材料设备公司
Raw Materials Company of Chemical Industry 化工原料公司
Building Material Company 建筑材料公司
Building Material Supply Company 建筑材料供应公司
Building Material Trading Company 建材贸易公司
Building Material Service Company 建筑材料服务公司
New Building Material Company 新型建筑材料公司
Materials Company 物资公司
Material 原材料
purchased material list原材料进货单
Sanitary Materials Factory 卫生材料厂
Copper Material Factory 铜材厂
Aluminum Material Factory 铅材厂
Building Materials Factory 建材厂
Building Material Company 建筑材料公司
Building Material Supply Company 建筑材料供应公司
Building Material Trading Company 建材贸易公司
Building Material Service Company 建筑材料服务公司
New Building Material Company 新型建筑材料公司
Materials Company 物资公司
Overseas Building Materials and Equipment Corporation 对外建筑材料设备公司
Standard for Spray Application Using Flammable or Combustible Materials
易燃品喷洒装置标准
Recommended Practice on Materials, Equipment and Systems Used in Oxygen-Enriched Atmospheres
富氧环境下材料、装置和系统推荐实施规程
Standard Methods of Tests of Fire Endurance of Building Construction and Materials
建筑结构和材料耐火性测试方式
Standard Method of Test of Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials
建筑材料的表面燃烧层特性的标准测试方法
Recommended Practice for Determining Smoke Generation of Solid Materials
固体燃料发烟情况研究测试方法标准
Standard Test Method for Potential Heat of Building Materials
建筑材料的潜热性能的标准测试方法
Standard Method of Test for Determining Resistance of Mock-Up Upholstered Furniture Material Assemblies to Ignition by Smoldering Cigarettes
通过阴燃鉴定家具材料耐香烟着火性的标准测试方法
Standard Method of Test for Heat and Visible Smoke Release Rates for Materials and Products Using an Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter
用耗氧型热量计测试材料和产品的热量和可见烟发散度的标准方法
Standard Method of Test for Determining the Degrees of Combustibility of Building Materials
鉴定建筑材料可燃度的标准测试方法
Standard Test Methods for Measurement of Flammability of Materials in Cleanrooms Using a Fire Propagation Apparatus (FPA)
易燃物在无尘室里的火灾传播试验方法标准
Recommended Practice for Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents
危险品事故防范对策推荐实施规程
Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials Incidents
危险品事故专职处理人员资格标准
Standard for Competencies for EMS Personnel Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents
处理危险品事故的紧急医疗服务（EMS）人员资格标准
Explosive Materials Code
爆炸物规范
Standard for Fire Retardant Impregnated Wood and Fire Retardant Coatings for Building Materials
建筑材料阻火型木材和涂料的消防标准
Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response
危险品紧急处理系统鉴别标准
Standard for Fire Protection for Facilities Handling Radioactive Materials
放射性材料处理设备的消防标准
Standard on Vapor-Protective Ensembles for Hazardous Materials Emergencies
化学危险品蒸汽防护服装标准
Standard on Liquid Splash-Protective Ensembles and Clothing for Hazardous Materials Emergencies
化学危险品喷溅防护服装标准
Soundproof Material 隔音材料
Thermal Insulation Material 绝热材料
inspection of material 材料检验
package materials (packing supplies) 包装材料
inspection of material 材料检验
Material 原材料
No parking or materials in front of doors 门前不准停车或堆放杂物。
热核燃料 fusionable material
加工贸易 trade involving the processing of supplied raw materials
component materials and parts markets 组成材料和零部件市场
new materials 新材料
raw materials 原材料
briefing material
简介；简报资料
campaign material 宣传物品
election material 竞选资料
electioneering material 竞选资料
offending election material 违例竞选资料
publicity material 宣传资料
Many young people always go into raptures at the merely mention of buying fashion clothes. And they seem to be attracted by colorful material, various styles of fashion clothes. There is nothing, they maintain, that can't be compared with fashion clothes. In fact, fashion clothes had become indispensable part of youngster's life.
许多年轻人一提到时尚服装就兴高采烈。他们似乎被时尚服装那多彩的面料，各种不同的款式所吸引。 111. Many people seem to overlook the basic fact: the major function of clothing is to keep us warm and comfortable.
许多人似乎忽视了这个基本事实：衣服的基本功能是保持我们舒适和温暖。
Advanced composite material 先进复合材料，高级复合材料
Aeolotropic material 各向异性材料
Ablative composite material 烧蚀复合材料
Ablative insulative material 烧蚀绝热材料
Abradant material 研磨材料，磨料
Abrasion-proof material 耐磨材料
ABSM(American Bureau of Standard Materials) 美国标准材料局
Absorbent material 吸收性材料,吸收性物质，吸声材料，吸收剂
FCM(Fibrous Composite material) 纤维复合材料
Heat barrier material 隔热材料
High molecular material 高分子材料
Joint sealing material 填缝料
材料科学与工程 Materials Science and Engineering
材料物理与化学 Materials Physics and Chemistry
材料加工工程 Materials Processing Engineering
纺织材料与纺织品设计 Textile Material and Textiles Design
核燃料循环与材料 Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials
国家建筑材料工业局 State Bureau of Building Materials Industry
国际材料物理中心 International Center for Materials Physics (ICMP)
background material 背景材料
material cost 材料成本
materials industry 材料业
Material 原材料
material account 材料帐户
material cost 材料成本
material stock 材料库存
Raw material 原材料
自动愈合的防腐材料
self-healing corrosion preventative material
引爆剂
ignition material
吸波材料
absorbing material
零组件用材料 Components Materials
金属表面处理(材料) Metal Surface Treatment(Material)
车架材料 Frame Materials
This material absorbs water.
这种材料能吸水。
This material is good for the house to keep out external heat.
这材料对防止室外的热量进入屋内很有用。
The factories dumped so much waste material into the rivers that the water became polluted.
这些工厂把那么多的废物排入河中，以致于河水受到了污染。
This material is proof against fire.
这材料是防火的。
Users can download this material to a desktop.
使用者可将此资料下载到台式计算机上。
This material washes easily.
这种衣料容易洗涤。
material that spots easily
易被弄污的料子
Waste products from factories can be made into road-building material.
工厂的废品可改造成筑路材料。
Some even argue plausibly that this weakness may be irremediable : in any society that, like a capitalist society, seeks to become ever wealthier in material terms disproportionate rewards are bound to flow to the people who are instrumental in producing the increase in its wealth.
有些人甚至看似事理地认为这一弱点无可补救：在任何一个在物质财富方面追求更加富裕的社会中，比如说资本主义社会，比例不均衡的回报肯定要流向那些在创造财富增长的过程中提供设备的人。
The best evidence for the layered mantle thesis is the well-established fact that volcanic rocks found on oceanic islands, islands believed to result from mantle plumes arising from the lower mantle, are composed of material fundamentally different from that of the midocean ridge system, whose source, most geologists contend, is the upper mantle.
分层地幔的最好证据就是在海岛上发现的火山岩这一明显的事实。岛屿被认为是从低层地幔升起的地柱形成的，它构成的基本成份与海中的山脊系统根本不同，许多地质学家认为它起源于上层地幔。
Towards the end of the century there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening.
直到这个世纪末还是有大量的这样的争论，书籍是否应该作为信息来认真对待，还是有些像报纸之类的阅读材料已经在精神上有某种程度地减弱了。
Finally, other people may give us instrumental support——financial aid, material resources, and needed services-that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.
最后，其他的人给我们提供物质性支持—经济援助，物质资料和必需服务—通过帮助我们处理问题来减轻我们的压力。
Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.
回收也能够通过创造就业机会来刺激本地经济，治理污染，通过给企业提供更加精练的原材料达到减少能源消耗的目的。
Jim is going to get material for a new book.
吉姆正打算为一部新书准备材料。
Building materials are expensive.
建筑材料很昂贵。
He is collecting materials for a book.
他正在为写书搜集素材。
The storm did a great deal of material damage.
暴风雨造成了大量物质损失。
我的意思是……
What I meant was...
Do you mean fire people? (你的意思是要裁人?)
No, what I meant was we need to use cheaper materials. (不，我的意思是必须使用更便宜的材料。)
What I wanted to say was...
Thank you for your inquiry, but we cannot make you an offer right now because we are presently unable to obtain appropriate materials.
谢谢贵方询价，但我们不能马上发盘，因为目前我们得不到合适的原料。
It's impossible. You may notice that the cost of raw materials has gone up in recent years.
不可能，您可能注意到了近年来原材料的价格上涨了。
The machines will be made of the best materials and the stipulations of the contract be strictly observed.
机器将用最好的材料生产，合同的规定也将得以严格履行。
Nonferromugnetic material 非铁磁性材料
Paramagnetic material 顺磁性材料
Piezoelectric material 压电材料
Protective material 防护材料
materials handling 物料搬运
Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with
the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be
valued only by the standard of pride of place and persona l profit.
Franklin Roosevelt, American president
把物质财富当作成功的标准是错误的。我们应抛弃以名利为唯一标准来衡量公职和高级政治地位的错误观念。
美国总统罗斯福.F.
Great men are the guide posts and landmarks in the state;are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Jimmy Ellis, American boxer
伟人是一国的路标与界石；是那些认识到精神力量大于任何物质力量，用思想统治世界的人。
美国拳击运动员埃利斯.J.
Men of privilege without power are waste material , Men of enlighten-ment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish.
H.V.Dyke , American writer and ducator
享有特权而权力的人是废物。受过教育而没有影响的人是一文不值的垃圾。
美国作家、教育家戴克H V
- pull strings for someone 为某人走后门，幕后操作
In the material world, money pulls the strings.
- Fish in troubled waters 浑水摸鱼
Don't tell him that we need that material badly, He is good at fishing in troubled waters and will take advantage of it.
We are collecting this material at the point of origin.
我们正在产地收集此货。
We're prepared to purchase a shipment quantity of this material.
我们准备买足够一次装运数量的这种商品。
If you find the quality of our products unsatisfactory, we're prepared to accept return of the rejected material within a week.
如果贵方对产品质量不满意，我们将在一星期内接受退货。
Claims for incorrect material must be made within 60 days after arrival of the goods.
有关不合格材料的索赔问题必须在货到后60天内予以解决。
布料 drapery; material; cloth
材 material; timber
材料 material; datum; makings; stuff; data
器材 equipment; material
素材 material
备料 [bèi liào] /get the materials ready/prepare feed (for livestock)/
本事 [běn shì] /ability/skill/source material/original story/
边角科 [biān jiǎo kē] /leftover bits and pieces (of industrial, material)/
材 [cái] /material/
材料 [cái liào] /material/data/makings/stuff/
定购 [dìng gòu] /(v) place an order for materials/
定货 [dìng huò] /(v) place an order for materials/
读物 [dú wù] /reading material/
废品 [fèi pǐn] /(n) production rejects/(n) scrap; discarded material/
福利 [fú lì] /(material) welfare/well-being/
钢材 [gāng cái] /(n) raw steel material (sheets; ingots; etc)/
稿件 [gǎo jiàn] /(n) rough draft of a document/(n) written materials which contribute to a final document/
核武器材料 [hé wǔ qì cái liào] /nuclear weapon material/weapon's grade material/
核原料 [hé yuán liào] /nuclear material/
讲义 [jiǎng yì] /teaching materials/
教材 [jiào cái] /teaching material/
库存 [kù cún] /(n) material held in reseve; stock/
料 [liào] /material/stuff/grain/feed/to expect/to anticipate/to guess/
料子 [liào zi ] /material/
耐火 [nài huǒ] /refractory (material)/fire-resistant/
呢 [ní] /woolen material/
铺平 [pū píng] /spread out (material)/pave (the way, a road, etc.)/
器材 [qì cái] /equipment/material/
史料 [shǐ liào] /(n) historical material or data/
物品 [wù pǐn] /articles/goods/materials/
物质 [wù zhì] /matter/substance/material/materialistic/
物资 [wù zī] /goods and materials/
油料 [yóu liào] /(n) oil producer; vegetable material that can be pressed to extract oil/
原材料 [yuán cái liào] /(n) raw or unprocessed materials/
原料 [yuán liào] /raw material/
资料 [zī liào] /data/material/
Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from each other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them.
例如，以非洲和南美洲为例，由于有新的物质注入二者之间的海底，两大洲距离越来越远。
When a continental plate come to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper layer creates a broad dome.
当大陆板块漂移到热点上方，来自地球深层的物质便形成了巨大的圆顶状隆起物。
As the dome grows, it develops deep fissures (cracks); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean.
随着这个圆顶的增长，板块出现深深的裂缝。至少有几次，大陆可能会沿着其中的一些裂缝完全裂开了，因此这个热点就引发了一个新的海洋的形成。
Thus just as earlier theories have explained the mobility of the continents, so hot spots may explain their mutability (inconstancy).
这样，正像早期的理论解释了大陆的移动性一样，热点理论或许能解释大陆板块的不稳定性。
Advertising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force I can think of.
广告给社会带来的物质利益比任何我所能想到的方式都多。
Practice (or review) tends to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material.
实践（或称复习）就是建立并保持对某一任务或所学材料的记忆。
Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials on hand, and even of the production process itself.
计算机跟踪库存商品，现有原材料甚至生产过程本身。
{adj: ablative} tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
"ablative material on a rocket cone"
{adj: acquisitive} eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
"an acquisitive mind"
"an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"
<-> unacquisitive
{adj: adulterating, adulterant} making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
"the adulterating effect of extraneous materials"
<-> purifying
{adj: antipersonnel} designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction
{adj: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent} unrestrained by convention or propriety
"an audacious trick to pull"
"a barefaced hypocrite"
"the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times
"bald-faced lies"
"brazen arrogance"
"the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
{adj: blebbed, blebby} (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material
{adj: bodily} having or relating to a physical material body
"bodily existence"
{adj: bound} held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
<-> free
{adj: cementitious} like or relevant to or having the properties of cement
"the adhesion of cementitious materials"
{adj: compressible} capable of being compressed or made more compact
"compressible packing materials"
"a compressible box"
<-> incompressible
{adj: copyrighted} (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright
"permission to publish copyright material"
{adj: corporeal, material} having material or physical form or substance
"that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
<-> incorporeal
{adj: deformational} relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure
{adj: detected} perceived or discerned
"the detected micrometeoritic material"
<-> undetected
{adj: diffused} (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material
"diffused light"
{adj: discorporate, unembodied, bodiless, unbodied, disembodied} not having a material body
"bodiless ghosts"
{adj: economic, economical} of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
"economic growth"
"aspects of social, political, and economical life"
{adj: emitting} giving off light or heat or radiation
"the physical temperature of the emitting material"
{adj: essential, indispensable} absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
"essential tools and materials"
"funds essential to the completion of the project"
"an indispensable worker"
{adj: expansive} able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
"Expansive materials"
"the expansive force of fire"
<-> unexpansive
{adj: expurgated} having material deleted
"at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions"
{adj: extrusive} of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface
<-> intrusive
{adj: fictile, moldable, plastic} capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)
"plastic substances such as wax or clay"
{adj: finished} (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state
"a finished product"
<-> unfinished
{adj: fissionable, fissile} capable of undergoing nuclear fission
"a fissionable nucleous"
"fissionable material"
<-> nonfissionable
{adj: fortuitous} occurring by happy chance
"profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials"
{adj: half-bound} (of books) having the back bound in one material and the sides in another
{adj: imaginative, ingenious, inventive} (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
"an imaginative use of material"
"the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford
"an ingenious device"
"had an inventive turn of mind"
"inventive ceramics"
{adj: immaterial, nonmaterial} not consisting of matter
"immaterial apparitions"
"ghosts and other immaterial entities"
<-> material
{adj: immaterial} of no importance or relevance especially to a law case
"an objection that is immaterial after the fact"
<-> material
{adj: impervious, imperviable} not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
"a material impervious to water"
"someone impervious to argument"
<-> pervious
{adj: incorporeal, immaterial} without material form or substance
"an incorporeal spirit"
<-> corporeal
{adj: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal} lacking material form or substance; unreal
"as insubstantial as a dream"
"an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"
<-> substantial
{adj: intrusive} of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock
<-> extrusive
{adj: jerry-built, shoddy} of inferior workmanship and materials
"mean little jerry-built houses"
{adj: kinetic} relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith
"kinetic energy"
{adj: lean} lacking in mineral content or combustible material
"lean ore"
"lean fuel"
<-> rich
{adj: magnetic, magnetized, magnetised} having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel
"the hard disk is covered with a thin coat of magnetic material"
<-> antimagnetic
{adj: material} concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
"material needs"
"the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"- T.Roosevelt
{adj: material} concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
"material possessions"
"material wealth"
"material comforts"
{adj: material} derived from or composed of matter
"the material universe"
<-> immaterial
{adj: material} directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
"his support made a material difference"
"evidence material to the issue at hand"
"facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"
"a material witness"
<-> immaterial
{adj: metaphysical} without material form or substance
"metaphysical forces"
{adj: nescient, unbelieving} holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible
{adj: papery} thin and paperlike
"papery leaves"
"wasps that make nests of papery material"
{adj: permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive} spreading or spread throughout
"armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"
"the pervasive odor of garlic"
"an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"
{adj: physical} according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter)
"a reflex response to physical stimuli"
{adj: physical} concerned with material things
"physical properties"
"the physical characteristics of the earth"
"the physical size of a computer"
{adj: physical} having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses
"a physical manifestation"
"surrounded by tangible objects"
{adj: printable} fit for publication because free of material that is morally or legally objectionable
"printable language"
<-> unprintable
{adj: profitable} yielding material gain or profit
"profitable speculation on the stock market"
<-> unprofitable
{adj: refractory-lined} (of furnaces) lined with material that has a high melting point
{adj: revised} altered or revised by rephrasing or by adding or deleting material
"the amended bill passed easily"
{adj: rich} possessing material wealth
"her father is extremely rich"
"many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles"
<-> poor
{adj: saprophytic} obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material
{adj: scabrous} dealing with salacious or indecent material
"a scabrous novel"
{adj: shock-absorbent} having the capacity to absorb the energy of an impact
"the material absorbs shock and is used for shock-absorbent insoles"
{adj: sloppy} wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
"a sloppy floor"
"a sloppy saucer"
{adj: soft-nosed} (of a bullet) made of soft material that expands on impact
{adj: solid-state} characteristic of or relating to the physical properties of solid materials especially electromagnetic or thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solids
{adj: solid-state} consisting of semiconductor materials and components and related devices
{adj: sordid} meanly avaricious and mercenary
"sordid avarice"
"sordid material interests"
{adj: spiritual} lacking material body or form or substance
"spiritual beings"
"the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford
{adj: sticky} covered with an adhesive material
{adj: substantial, real, material} having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
"the substantial world"
"a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"
"most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare
<-> insubstantial
{adj: subsurface} beneath the surface
"subsurface materials of the moon"
<-> overhead, surface
{adj: supercritical} (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases
{adj: supernatural} not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material
"supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"
<-> natural
{adj: surface} on the surface
"surface materials of the moon"
<-> subsurface, overhead
{adj: synecdochic, synecdochical} using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it
"to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech"
{adj: temporal} of the material world
"temporal possessions of the church"
{adj: thermoplastic} having the property of softening or fusing when heated and of hardening and becoming rigid again when cooled
"thermoplastic materials can be remelted and cooled time after time without undergoing any appreciable chemical change"
<-> thermosetting
{adj: thermosetting, thermoset} having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured
"the phenol resins and plastics were the original synthetic thermosetting materials"
<-> thermoplastic
{adj: transcendental} of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
{adj: undercoated, undersealed} (of motor vehicles) having a coating of tar or other rustproof material applied to the underside
{adj: uneconomical, wasteful} inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
"a clumsy and wasteful process"
"wasteful duplication of effort"
"uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
{adj: unexpurgated} not having material deleted
"volumes of the best plays, unexpurgated"- Havelock Ellis
{adj: valuable} having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange
"another human being equally valuable in the sight of God"
"a valuable diamond"
<-> worthless
{adj: volcanic} relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
"volcanic steam"
"volcanic islands such as Iceland"
"a volcanic cone is a conical mountain or hill built up of material from volcanic eruptions"
{adj: woven} made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole
"woven fabrics"
"woven baskets"
"the incidents woven into the story"
"folk songs woven into a symphony"
<-> unwoven
{adv: glacially} by a glacier
"glacially deposited material"
{adv: magnetically} by the use of magnetism
"magnetically contaminated material"
{adv: materially} with respect to material aspects
"psychologically similar but materially different"
{n: Brinell number} measure of the hardness of a material
{n: HAZMAT} an abbreviation for `hazardous material' used on warning signs
"NO HAZMATS IN TUNNEL"
{n: Hadean, Hadean time, Hadean eon, Hadean aeon, Priscoan, Priscoan eon, Priscoan aeon} the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life
{n: Human Genome Project} an international study of the entire human genetic material
{n: Judaica} historical and literary materials relating to Judaism
{n: Microtaggant} (trademark) a microscopic and traceable identification particle used to trace explosives or other hazardous materials or to prevent counterfeiting
{n: Plasticine} a synthetic material resembling clay but remaining soft; used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling (especially in schools)
{n: Schiaparelli, Elsa Schiaparelli} fashion designer born in Italy who was noted for her use of synthetic materials and brilliant colors (1896-1973)
{n: Teflon, polytetrafluoroethylene} a material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided
{n: Victoriana} collection of materials of or characteristic of the Victorian era
{n: Williams syndrome} a rare congenital disorder associated with deletion of genetic material in chromosome 7; characterized by mental deficiency and some growth deficiency and elfin faces but an overly social personality and a remarkable gift for vocabulary
{n: abrasive, abradant, abrasive material} a substance that abrades or wears down
{n: absorbate} a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed
{n: absorbent material, absorbent} a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
{n: absorber} (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation
{n: acetone, propanone, dimethyl ketone} the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics
{n: adhesive material, adhesive agent, adhesive} a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together
{n: adsorbate} a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed
{n: adsorbent, adsorbent material} a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance
{n: adulteration, debasement} being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating
{n: agglomerator} a device that causes material to gather into rounded balls
"a sonic agglomerator"
{n: almoner, medical social worker} an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients
{n: ammunition} any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction
{n: amplification, elaboration} addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
"a few remarks added in amplification and defense"
"an elaboration of the sketch followed"
{n: anastylosis} the archeological reassembly of ruined monuments from fallen or decayed fragments (incorporating new materials when necessary)
{n: animal material} material derived from animals
{n: animal product} a product made from animal material
{n: appendix} supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book
{n: applique} a decorative design made of one material sewn over another
{n: apposition} (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
{n: assets} anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
{n: athenaeum, atheneum} a place where reading materials are available
{n: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try} earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
"made an effort to cover all the reading material"
"wished him luck in his endeavor"
"she gave it a good try"
{n: audiovisual, audiovisual aid} materials using sight or sound to present information
"language tapes and videocassettes and other audiovisuals"
{n: avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity} extreme greed for material wealth
{n: backlog} an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
{n: bacteriostat} a chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth
{n: ballast} any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
{n: band, banding, stripe} an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
{n: band, ring} a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
{n: bandage, patch} a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
{n: band} a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
{n: band} a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else
{n: beaver, castor} a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
{n: bedding material, bedding, litter} material used to provide a bed for animals
{n: belting} the material of which belts are made
{n: belt} endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys
{n: billionaire} a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars
{n: bimetal} material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals
{n: biomass} plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
{n: black wattle, Acacia auriculiformis} Australian tree that yields tanning materials
{n: blacktop, blacktopping} a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock
{n: blanket stitch} strong reinforcing stitch for edges of blanket and other thick material; similar to buttonhole stitch
{n: blank} a piece of material ready to be made into something
{n: board} a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose
"he nailed boards across the windows"
{n: bobbin, spool, reel} a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
{n: bonding} (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel
{n: bowdlerization, bowdlerisation} written material that has been bowdlerized
{n: brace} either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
{n: bracket, angle bracket} either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material
{n: bracket, square bracket} either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material
{n: breeder reactor} a nuclear reactor that produces more fissile material than it burns
{n: bricks and mortar} building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between then
{n: brick} rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
{n: brocade} thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern
{n: buff, buffer} an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
{n: buffing wheel} a wheel that is covered with soft material
{n: building block} a block of material used in construction work
{n: building material} material used for constructing buildings
{n: building supply store, building supply house} a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures
{n: carving} a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape
{n: casemaking clothes moth, Tinea pellionella} the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins
{n: catalysis, contact action} acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction
"of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced"
{n: cement} a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
{n: cement} any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
{n: cement} something that hardens to act as adhesive material
{n: ceramic ware} utensils made from ceramic material
{n: ceramic} an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures
{n: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble} material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
{n: charcoal, fusain} a stick of black carbon material used for drawing
{n: charcoal, wood coal} a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
{n: charcoal} a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material
{n: chemical property} a property used to characterize materials in reactions that change their identity
{n: chipboard, hardboard} a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin
{n: clot, coagulum} a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
{n: collector} a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
{n: coloring material, colouring material, color, colour} any material used for its color
"she used a different color for the trim"
{n: combustible, combustible material} a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power
{n: command} availability for use
"the materials at the command of the potters grew"
{n: comment, commentary} a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
"he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"
{n: composite material} strong lightweight material developed in the laboratory; fibers of more than one kind are bonded together chemically
{n: compositor, typesetter, setter, typographer} one who sets written material into type
{n: compromise verdict} a verdict resulting from improper compromises between jurors on material issues
{n: compulsory process} the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court
{n: concrete mixer, cement mixer} a machine with a large revolving drum in which cement is mixed with other materials to make concrete
{n: concrete} a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
{n: conductance unit} a measure of a material's ability to conduct an electrical charge
{n: conductance} a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance
{n: constructivism} an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
{n: containment} (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
{n: contrast medium, contrast material} a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
{n: cooking utensil, cookware} a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking
{n: copy, written matter} matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials
{n: copy} material suitable for a journalistic account
"catastrophes make good copy"
{n: core} a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
{n: core} the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
{n: corkboard} a heat-insulating building material consisting of cork granules that are made into sheets by compressing and baking
{n: counter, heel counter} a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
"a counter may be used to stiffen the material around the heel and to give support to the foot"
{n: counterglow, gegenschein} a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space
{n: covering material} a material used by builders to cover surfaces
{n: creating from raw materials} the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it
{n: critical mass} the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction
{n: crucible, melting pot} a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions
{n: cutin} (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids
{n: cutwork} embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away
{n: damp-proof course, damp course} a course of some impermeable material laid in the foundation walls of building near the ground to prevent dampness from rising into the building
{n: dark ground illumination, dark field illumination} a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background
{n: darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid} sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
{n: daub} material used to daub walls
{n: debridement} surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing
{n: dehiscence} (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound
{n: dentine, dentin} a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth
{n: dermoid cyst} a cystic tumor (usually benign) with a wall lined with epithelium and a cavity containing other material
{n: desktop publishing} (computer science) the use of microcomputers with graphics capacity to produce printed materials
{n: destruction fire} fire delivered for the sole purpose of destroying material objects
{n: detritus} loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks
{n: development, developing} processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
"the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"
{n: diamagnetism} phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet
{n: diatomaceous earth, diatomite, kieselguhr} a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material
{n: digester} autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested
{n: drain} tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
{n: draper} a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)
{n: dredge} a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
{n: dredging bucket} a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed
{n: drill} a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
{n: dump, garbage dump, trash dump, rubbish dump, wasteyard, waste-yard, dumpsite} a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
{n: duplicator, copier} apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material
{n: dust} fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
"the furniture was covered with dust"
{n: dust} free microscopic particles of solid material
"astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust"
{n: earth, ground} the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
"they dug into the earth outside the church"
{n: ease, comfort} a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
"a life of luxury and ease"
"he had all the material comforts of this world"
{n: economic geology} the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials
{n: economic process} any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth
{n: editorial department} the department of a publishing business that edits material for publication
{n: elastic bandage} a bandage containing stretchable material that can apply local pressure
{n: elastic} a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material
{n: elastomer} any of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed)
{n: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistance, resistivity, ohmic resistance} a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
{n: elution} the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions
{n: esophageal smear} alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the esophagus
{n: fabric, cloth, material, textile} artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
"the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"
"woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"
"she measured off enough material for a dress"
{n: fabrication, manufacture} the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
"the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"
"an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"
"manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
{n: face veil} a piece of more-or-less transparent material that covers the face
{n: fair use} the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties
{n: fatigue} used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress
"metal fatigue"
{n: feedstock} the raw material that is required for some industrial process
{n: fell, felled seam} seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
{n: fencing material, fencing} material for building fences
{n: ferromagnetism} phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed
{n: fiber, fibre, vulcanized fiber} a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
{n: fiberglass, fibreglass} a covering material made of glass fibers in resins
{n: field press censorship} security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces
{n: fieldstone} stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material
{n: figure, fig} a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
"the area covered can be seen from Figure 2"
{n: filling, fill} any material that fills a space or container
"there was not enough fill for the trench"
{n: film, photographic film} photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
{n: film, plastic film} a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
{n: filter tip} an air filter on the end of a cigarette; contains material that filters the smoke
{n: fire, flame, flaming} the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
"fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
{n: floccule, floc} a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid
{n: flooring} building material used in laying floors
{n: fluff} any light downy material
{n: fluorescent lamp} lamp consisting of a tube coated on the inside with a fluorescent material; mercury vapor in the tube emits ultraviolet radiation that is converted to visible radiation by the fluorescent material
{n: foam} a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture
{n: freeze-drying, lyophilization, lyophilisation} a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
{n: frill, flounce, ruffle, furbelow} a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
{n: furnace lining, refractory} lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
{n: gagman, gagster, gagwriter} someone who writes comic material for public performers
{n: gastric smear} alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the stomach
{n: georgette} a thin silk dress material
{n: girdle, cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth} a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
{n: greed} excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
{n: grinding wheel, emery wheel} a wheel composed of abrasive material; used for grinding
{n: groundmass} the matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded
{n: guar, cluster bean, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, Cyamopsis psoraloides} drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material
{n: gusset, inset} a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment
{n: half binding} book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another
{n: heat of sublimation} heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state
{n: heat of vaporization, heat of vaporisation} heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature
{n: helmet} a protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows
{n: hematochrome} a reddish coloring material found in some algae
{n: homogenate} material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed)
"liver homogenate"
{n: hoop, ring} a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
"there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse"
{n: horn} the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
{n: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh} alternative names for the body of a human being
"Leonardo studied the human body"
"he has a strong physique"
"the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
{n: humate} material that is high in humic acids
{n: hyaline, hyalin} a glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
{n: hypertext} machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected
"Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper"--Ted Nelson
{n: hypostatization, hypostatisation, reification} regarding something abstract as a material thing
{n: hysteresis} the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field
{n: identical twin, monozygotic twin, monozygous twin} either of two twins developed from the same fertilized ovum (having the same genetic material)
{n: identification particle} a tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture
{n: idol, graven image, god} a material effigy that is worshipped
"thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"
"money was his god"
{n: ileocecal valve} valve between the ileum of the small intestine and the cecum of the large intestine; prevents material from flowing back from the large to the small intestine
{n: impregnation} material with which something is impregnated
"the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"
{n: impurity, dross} worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
"there were impurities in the water"
{n: in-basket, in-tray} a wood or metal receptacle placed on your desk to hold your incoming material
<-> out-basket
{n: incompatibility} (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
{n: incrustation, encrustation} a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay
{n: induction heating} the heating of a conducting material caused by an electric current induced in it
{n: industrial engineering, industrial management} the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways
{n: insulating material, insulant, insulation} a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity
{n: insulation} the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
{n: insulator, dielectric, nonconductor} a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity
<-> conductor
{n: intangible, intangible asset} assets that are saleable though not material or physical
{n: inventory} (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
{n: issue, publication} the act of issuing printed materials
{n: jag} a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
{n: jerry-builder} someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit
{n: kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk} material for starting a fire
{n: knacker} someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
{n: labor of love, labour of love} productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation
{n: laminate} a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers
{n: land, ground, soil} material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
"the land had never been plowed"
"good agricultural soil"
{n: lath and plaster} a building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster
{n: leaf, folio} a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
{n: leotard, unitard, body suit, cat suit} a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance
{n: leukorrhea, leucorrhea} discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection
{n: library, depository library} a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study
{n: library} a building that houses a collection of books and other materials
{n: life buoy, lifesaver, life belt, life ring} a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material
{n: light-emitting diode, LED} diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
{n: linage, lineage} a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
{n: linage, lineage} the number of lines in a piece of printed material
{n: lining, facing} providing something with a surface of a different material
{n: linin} an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
{n: litmus, litmus test} a coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions; used as a very rough acid-base indicator
{n: loam} a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
{n: logistics} handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed
{n: looseness} freedom from restraint
"the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
{n: lumber, timber} the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
{n: lysogeny, lysogenicity} the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material
"when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny"
{n: machine tool} a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials
{n: mackinaw, Mackinaw coat} a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material
{n: magnetic mine} (nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship)
{n: mailing list} a list of names and addresses to which advertising material is mailed
{n: man-made fiber, synthetic fiber} created from natural materials or by chemical processes
{n: manure} any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material
{n: marble} a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
{n: margin of safety, safety margin, margin of error} the margin required in order to insure safety
"in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress"
{n: material breach} a breach serious enough to destroy the value of the contract and to give a basis for an action for breach of contract
{n: material resource} assets in the form of material possessions
{n: material witness} a witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter
{n: material, stuff} the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
"coal is a hard black material"
"wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
{n: materialism, philistinism} a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
{n: materials handling} act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices
{n: material} a person judged suitable for admission or employment
"he was university material"
"she was vice-presidential material"
{n: material} information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
"the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"
{n: material} things needed for doing or making something
"writing materials"
"useful teaching materials"
{n: mattress} a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
{n: mat} a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
{n: mechanic's lien} lien to secure payment for work and materials in erecting or repairing a building or other structure
{n: meconium} thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child
{n: membrane} a thin pliable sheet of material
{n: microfiche} small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material
{n: microfilm} film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material
{n: mill, grinder, milling machinery} machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
{n: millionaire} a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars
{n: mineral wool, rock wool} a light fibrous material used as an insulator
{n: molecular genetics} the branch of genetics concerned with the structure and activity of genetic material at the molecular level
{n: monad, monas} a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive
{n: monetary value, price, cost} the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
"the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"
"he puts a high price on his services"
"he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
{n: mordant} a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process
{n: multi-billionaire} a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at many billions of dollars
{n: myxoma} a benign tumor of connective tissue containing jellylike material
{n: nail} a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
{n: necktie, tie} neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
"he stood in front of the mirror tightening his necktie"
"he wore a vest and tie"
{n: nitrification} the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants)
{n: nitrogen oxide} any of several oxides of nitrogen formed by the action of nitric acid on oxidizable materials; present in car exhausts
{n: nova} a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
{n: nuclear medicine} the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells
{n: nuclear terrorism} the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials
"assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism"
{n: nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals} a source of materials to nourish the body
{n: nylons, nylon stocking, rayons, rayon stocking, silk stocking} women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)
{n: oral smear} alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the mouth
{n: orchotomy} surgical incision into the testis to obtain material for analysis (as in cases of abnormally low sperm count)
{n: ossification} the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
{n: out-basket, out-tray} a wood or metal receptacle placed on your desk to hold your outgoing material
<-> in-basket
{n: outwardness} concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts)
"hearty showmanship and all-round outwardness"
<-> inwardness
{n: outwardness} concern with outward things or material objects (especially the body and its appearance) as opposed to the mind and spirit
"hearty showmanship and all-around outwardness"
<-> inwardness
{n: packaging} material used to make packages
{n: packing material, packing, wadding} any material used especially to protect something
{n: pad, inkpad, inking pad, stamp pad} a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp
{n: padding, cushioning} artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
{n: paper} a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
{n: paraduodenal smear, duodenal smear} alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the duodenum
{n: paramagnetism} materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed
{n: parenthesis} either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
{n: patchwork, patchwork quilt} a quilt made by sew patches of different materials together
{n: patchwork} sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern
{n: paved surface} a horizontal surface covered with paving material
{n: paving material} material used for pavement
{n: paving, pavage} the act of applying paving materials to an area
{n: paving, pavement} material used to pave an area
{n: pestle, muller, pounder} a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
{n: petrifaction, petrification} the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
{n: phase, form} (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
"the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"
{n: phlogiston} a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
{n: photograph, photo, exposure, pic} a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
{n: photographic paper, photographic material} light-sensitive paper on which photograph can be printed
{n: pick} a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
"he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks"
{n: piece of cloth, piece of material} a separate part consisting of fabric
{n: plainness} the state of being unmixed with other material
"the plainness of vanilla ice cream"
{n: plant material} material derived from plants
{n: plant product} a product made from plant material
{n: plastic bag} a bag made of thin plastic material
{n: plastic explosive, plastique} an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy
{n: plasticizer, plasticiser} a substance added to plastics or other materials to make them more pliable
{n: plastic} generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
{n: playback} electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material
{n: polypropylene, polypropene} a polymer of propylene used as a thermoplastic molding material
{n: poverty, poorness, impoverishment} the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
<-> wealth
{n: power drill} a power tool for making holes in hard materials
{n: press, mechanical press} any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
{n: printing} the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution
{n: procurement, procurance, procural} the act of getting possession of something
"he was responsible for the procurement of materials and supplies"
{n: production cost} combined costs of raw material and labor incurred in producing goods
{n: promotion, publicity, promotional material, packaging} a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
"the packaging of new ideas"
{n: property, belongings, holding, material possession} something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
"that hat is my property"
"he is a man of property";
{n: punctuation} the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases
{n: purity, pureness} being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material
<-> impurity
{n: quality of life} your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)
"the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life"
{n: quilting} a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric
{n: radioactive dating} measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon 14) that an object contains; can be used to estimate the age of the object
{n: radioactive material} material that is radioactive
{n: radioactive waste} useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed
{n: radiocarbon dating, carbon dating, carbon-14 dating} a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14; believed to be reliable up to 40,000 years
{n: rad} a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
{n: railing} material for making rails or rails collectively
{n: rain-wash} the washing away of soil or other loose material by rain
{n: raw material, staple} material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
{n: reading, reading material} written material intended to be read
"the teacher assigned new readings"
"he bought some reading material at the airport"
{n: recycling plant} a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials
{n: recycling} the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
{n: red fire} combustible material (usually salts of lithium or strontium) that burns bright red; used in flares and fireworks
{n: reed, vibrating reed} a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
"the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
{n: reflection, reflexion} the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)
"he studied his reflection in the mirror"
{n: regosol} a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand
{n: rehash} old material that is slightly reworked and used again
"merely a dull rehash of his first novel"
{n: reluctivity} (physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it
{n: resilience, resiliency} the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
{n: reverberatory furnace} a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace
{n: ribbon, typewriter ribbon} a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
{n: ribbon} notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
{n: ribonucleic acid, RNA} (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell
"ribonucleic acid is the genetic material of some viruses"
{n: rice paper} a thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree
{n: rich person, wealthy person, have} a person who possesses great material wealth
{n: rock, stone} material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
"that mountain is solid rock"
"stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
{n: roofing material} building material used in constructing roofs
{n: roofing} material used to construct a roof
{n: rotogravure} printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press
{n: rubber eraser, rubber, pencil eraser} an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
{n: rubber, natural rubber, India rubber, gum elastic, caoutchouc} an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
{n: rubber, synthetic rubber} any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber
{n: rubbish, trash, scrap} worthless material that is to be disposed of
{n: rudaceous rock} a sedimentary rock formed of coarse-grained material
{n: safety glass, laminated glass, shatterproof glass} glass made with plates of plastic or resin or other material between two sheets of glass to prevent shattering
{n: sand} a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
{n: sari, saree} a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body
{n: sclerometer} a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point
{n: scow} a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold
{n: screed} an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete
{n: sealant, sealer} a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface)
{n: sealing material} any substance used to seal joints or fill cracks in a porous surface
{n: seed lac} granular material obtained from stick lac by crushing and washing
{n: self-feeder, feeder} a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material
"the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock"
{n: semiconductor device, semiconductor unit, semiconductor} a conductor made with semiconducting material
{n: semiconductor, semiconducting material} a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities
{n: sensationalist, ballyhoo artist} someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention
{n: sequin, spangle, diamante} adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing
{n: sewing basket} a workbasket in which sewing materials can be stored
{n: sexploitation} the commercial exploitation of sex or sexuality or explicit sexual material
"sexploitation by advertisers is notorious"
{n: shell} the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
{n: shim} a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
{n: shingle, shake} building material used as siding or roofing
{n: shoe} footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material
{n: shovel} a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
{n: shrinking, shrinkage} process or result of becoming less or smaller
"the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"
{n: siding} material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof
{n: sieve, screen} a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
{n: silicon carbide} an extremely hard blue-black crystalline compound (SiC) used as an abrasive and a heat refractory material; crystals of silicon carbide can be used as semiconductors
{n: size, sizing} any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
"size gives body to a fabric"
{n: skimming} the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid
{n: small print, fine print} material printed in small type
"he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print"
{n: solar house} a house designed to use solar radiation for heating; usually has large areas of glass in front of heat-absorbing materials
{n: solid-state physics} the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals; superconductivity; photoconductivity
{n: somatic cell nuclear transplantation, somatic cell nuclear transfer, SCNT, nuclear transplantation} moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another
{n: sorbate} a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption
{n: sorbent, sorbent material} a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption
{n: source materials} publications from which information is obtained
{n: spark} a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction
{n: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan} the male reproductive cell; the male gamete
"a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material"
{n: staff} building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration
{n: stain} (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
{n: standard of living, standard of life} a level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group
"they enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country"
"the lower the standard of living the easier it is to introduce an autocratic production system"
{n: stationer, stationery seller} a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies
{n: sticks and stone} a general term for building materials
{n: stiffener} material used for stiffening something
{n: stockpiling} accumulating and storing a reserve supply
"the stockpiling of war materials"
{n: stomacher} garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century
{n: stone} building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
"he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
{n: storage} the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
{n: strap} an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position
{n: stratum} one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
{n: strickle} a tool used to level off grain or other granular material in a measure
{n: strip, slip} artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
{n: stuffer} an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail
{n: summary judgment, summary judgement, judgment on the pleadings, judgement on the pleadings} a judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law
{n: surcoat} a loose outer coat usually of rich material
{n: surface} the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
"there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"
"the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"
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