Definition of material

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Material (n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

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Serge :: Serge (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes..
Excavation :: Excavation (n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
Slash :: Slash (n.) A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings..
Pi–a Cloth :: Pi–a cloth () A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow..
Incorporealism :: Incorporealism (n.) Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
Stalagmitic :: Stalagmite (n.) A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material..
Shoddy :: Shoddy (v. t.) A fibrous material obtained by deviling, or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo..
Railing :: Railing (n.) Rails in general; also, material for making rails..
Service :: Service (n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc..
Sculpture :: Sculpture (n.) The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials..
Lithography :: Lithography (n.) The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic..
Mosaic :: Mosaic (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients..
Incorporeal :: Incorporeal (a.) Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial.
Wadding :: Wadding (n.) A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made..
Jerry-built :: "Jerry-built (a.) Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses..
Chest :: Chest (n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth..
Sheeting :: Sheeting (n.) The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets..
Repair :: Repair (n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city..
Incorporate :: Incorporate (v. t.) To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work..
Cutin :: Cutin (n.) The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork..
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