Usually means: Substance or elements used in manufacturing.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. material: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. material: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. material: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. material: Collins English Dictionary
  5. material: Vocabulary.com
  6. Material, material: Wordnik
  7. material: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. material: Wiktionary
  9. material: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. material: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. material: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. material: Dictionary.com
  13. material: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. material: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Material (Blaqk Audio album), Material (Moebius & Plank album), Material (band), Material (computer graphics), Material (disambiguation), Material (film), Material, The Material (band), The Material, The material: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Material: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. material: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. material: Rhymezone
  19. Material (nt), material, material: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. material: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. material: Free Dictionary
  22. material: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. material: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. material: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. material: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. material: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. material: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. material: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. material: Legal dictionary
  8. material: Financial dictionary
  9. Material: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. material: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. material: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. material: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. material: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Material: Backgammon

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. material: Lighting Design Glossary
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See materially as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
adjective:  Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
adjective:  (law, accounting) Significant.
noun:  Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
noun:  Text written for a specific purpose.
noun:  A sample or specimens for study.
noun:  Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric.
noun:  A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity.
noun:  Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
noun:  The substance that something is made or composed of.
noun:  (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
noun:  (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.

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