Material

What “Material” means

Adj

1. Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
2. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
3. Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
4. Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
5. Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.

Noun

1. A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
2. A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
3. Apparatus for doing or making something.
4. Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
5. Fabric, which can be made into a garments, curtains, etc; especially, woven fabric (cloth).

Verb

1. To form from matter; to materialize.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.

Business name ideas with “Material”

Industries where “Material” fits

We suggest this word for 12 business types and industries, including:

• Advertising Material Distribution Services
• Asphalt Shingle and Coating Materials Manufacturing
• Brick, Stone, and Related Construction Material Merchant Wholesalers
• Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing
• Materials Recovery Facilities
• Other Building Material Dealers
• Other Construction Material Merchant Wholesalers
• Other Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers
• Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing
• Plastics Materials and Basic Forms and Shapes Merchant Wholesalers
• Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers
• Roofing, Siding, and Insulation Material Merchant Wholesalers