materialize

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
24
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/

Definition of materialize

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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verb

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive)To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
    “a spirit form, temporarily materialized, and undistinguishable from a human being in the flesh, has come forth in the light[…]”
    “Don’t you find, that things fail to materialize? Nothing materializes! Everything withers in the bud.”
    “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 […]”
    “And the citationality of these acts—and the calibration of such citationalities to each other—materializes as the very media forms in question.”
  3. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive)To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
  4. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
  5. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From material + -ize.

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