materialize
/məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
American usage; Transitive verb
verb
To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
American usage; Transitive verb
verb
To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
American usage; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English material Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English materialize From material + -ize.
Usage
- American usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb