'Materialize' definitions:
Definition of 'materialize'
From: WordNet
verb
Come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized" [syn: happen, materialize, materialise] [ant: dematerialise, dematerialize]
Definition of 'Materialize'
From: GCIDE
- Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Materialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing.] [Cf. F. mat['e]rialiser.]
- 1. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. [1913 Webster]
- Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images. --Tatler. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits. [1913 Webster]
- A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being. --Epes Sargent. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Materialize'
From: GCIDE
- Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. i.
- 1. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To come into existence; as, the promised donations never materialized. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'materialize'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affect,
- appear,
- approach,
- arise,
- be found,
- be realized,
- be revealed,
- become manifest,
- become visible,
- betoken,
- betray itself,
- body,
- body forth,
- brandish,
- breathe,
- bring forth,
- bring forward,
- bring into view,
- bring out,
- bring to notice,
- chance,
- come,
- come along,
- come forth,
- come forward,
- come in sight,
- come into being,
- come into existence,
- come on,
- come out,
- come to hand,
- come to light,
- come to pass,
- concretize,
- constitute,
- corporealize,
- corporify,
- crop out,
- crop up,
- dangle,
- demonstrate,
- develop,
- disclose,
- discover itself,
- display,
- divulge,
- dramatize,
- draw on,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- embody,
- emerge,
- enact,
- enter,
- entify,
- establish,
- evidence,
- evince,
- exhibit,
- expose to view,
- express,
- exteriorize,
- externalize,
- fade in,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- form,
- found,
- give sign,
- give token,
- hang out,
- happen,
- have no secrets,
- heave in sight,
- highlight,
- hypostatize,
- illuminate,
- inaugurate,
- incarnate,
- incept,
- incorporate,
- indicate,
- install,
- institute,
- issue,
- issue forth,
- lend substance to,
- look forth,
- loom,
- make clear,
- make plain,
- manifest,
- mean,
- objectify,
- occur,
- open up,
- organize,
- outcrop,
- parade,
- peep out,
- perform,
- personalize,
- personify,
- pop up,
- present,
- present itself,
- produce,
- realize,
- rear its head,
- reembody,
- reify,
- reincarnate,
- represent,
- reveal,
- rise,
- roll out,
- see the light,
- set forth,
- set up,
- shape,
- shape up,
- show,
- show forth,
- show up,
- solidify,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- spotlight,
- spring,
- spring up,
- stream forth,
- strike the eye,
- substantialize,
- substantiate,
- substantify,
- take a stand,
- take form,
- take place,
- take shape,
- token,
- transmigrate,
- trot out,
- turn up,
- typify,
- unfold,
- wave
Words containing 'Materialize'
- Material,
- Materialism,
- Materiality,
- Materialization,
- Materialized,
- Materializing,
- Materially,
- Materialness,
- Materiate,
- Materiated,
- Materiation,
- Materious,
- Formed material,
- Material cause,
- Material evidence,
- Raw material,
- abrasive material,
- absorbent material,
- adhesive material,
- adsorbent material,
- animal material,
- bedding material,
- building material,
- coloring material,
- colouring material,
- combustible material,
- composite material,
- contrast material,
- covering material,
- dialectical materialism,
- fencing material,
- insulating material,
- material body,
- material breach,
- material possession,
- material resource,
- material witness,
- materials handling,
- packing material,
- paving material,
- philosophical materialism,
- photographic material,
- piece of material,
- plant material,
- promotional material,
- radioactive material,
- reading material,
- roofing material,
- sealing material,
- semiconducting material,
- sorbent material,
- source materials,
- upholstery material,
- waste material,
- waste of material,
- written material,
- create from raw material,
- creating from raw materials