materialize
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- materialise (non-Oxford British English)
Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]materialize (third-person singular simple present materializes, present participle materializing, simple past and past participle materialized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
- (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
- 1875, Epes Sargent, The Proof Palpable of Immortality:
- a spirit form, temporarily materialized, and undistinguishable from a human being in the flesh, has come forth in the light […]
- 1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love:
- Don’t you find, that things fail to materialize? Nothing materializes! Everything withers in the bud.
- 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?:
- Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed, with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere […]
- 2016, Constantine V. Nakassis, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India, page 230:
- And the citationality of these acts—and the calibration of such citationalities to each other—materializes as the very media forms in question.
- (intransitive) To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
- (transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- (transitive, databases) To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
Translations
[edit]to cause to take physical form or to appear
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to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere
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