materialize Hear it!

materialize Definition

ma·teri·al·ize (mə tir′ē əl īz′)

transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing

  1. to give material form or characteristics to; represent in material form
  2. to make (a spirit, etc.) appear in bodily form
  3. to make materialistic

intransitive verb

  1. to become fact; develop into something real or tangible; be realized a plan that never materialized
  2. to take on, or appear in, bodily form: said of spirits, etc.
  3. to appear suddenly or unexpectedly

materialize Related Forms

ma·te′ri·ali·za′·tion noun

materialize Synonyms

materialize

v.

  1. To become matter

    be realized, form, take on form, take form, become real, actualize, reify, become embodied, be incarnate, coalesce, become concrete, metamorphose, reintegrate; see also form 4.

    Antonyms dissolve*, disintegrate*, disperse. *

  2. To develop

    unfold, emerge, evolve; see develop 3, grow 2.

materialize Usage Examples

Object

  • view: We can further have second level materialized views at various branch offices in each country which are based on their country materialized view.
  • site: A materialized view site can only updates its master site.
  • spirit: Only the fire of love has the power to penetrate through the darkness of the human version of materialized spirit.
  • thought: He conceded that " there is a tendency in the use of machinery to materialize the thoughts " .
  • tuple: Case 1 in Figure 4.6 shows a join between two tables that produces the correct materialized tuple for an S user.
  • object: They helped Blavatsky to materialize objects from space and perform other miracles.

Adjective complement

due: In certain hair loss pattern, surgical hair transplants can never materialize due to the lack of natural hair from the individual donor.

Modifying Another Word

  • suddenly: At a much lower level, a large rectangular object suddenly materialized.
  • never: Thus, with the same old familiar faces marching in the streets, the projected People's uprising never materialized.
  • fully: He said for example: " If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.
  • actually: Only half the jobs expected to be created actually materialized.
  • then: If the money does materialize then the next challenge is to ensure it gets to the right people in the right form.
  • not: Enlarge Image In the early months of the war the expected air attacks did not materialize.

Used with why or when

when: On 25 May, the threatened attack materialized when a mob of about nine hundred colliers and weavers entered the city.

Present participle complement

leave: Copy of the which only put materialize leaving her the crown odyssey.

Preposition: in

front: A sort of lip materializes in front of the Cyclidium, and the little swimmer is smoothly and swiftly sucked inside.

Preposition: under

napkin: A strange solid form materializes under an ungimmicked cloth napkin, and then just mysteriously melts away.