1. • noun - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
   • noun - information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
   • noun - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
   • noun - things needed for doing or making something
   • noun - a person judged suitable for admission or employment
   • adj - concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
   • adj - derived from or composed of matter
   • adj - directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
   • adj - concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
   • adj - having material or physical form or substance
   • adj - having substance or capable of being treated as fact
2. • The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made.
   • Something, such as an idea or information, that is to be refined and made or incorporated into a finished effort: material for a comedy.
   • Yard goods or cloth.
   • A person who is qualified or suited for a position or activity: The members of the board felt that she was vice-presidential material.
   • Of, relating to, or composed of matter.
   • Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; bodily: “the moral and material welfare of all good citizens” (Theodore Roosevelt).
   • Of or concerned with the physical as distinct from the intellectual or spiritual: “Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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   • Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, rather than the form.
3. • n - the substance of which anything is or may be composed

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