Dictionary

materialize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/
• (Southern-England) audio

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.

Meanings

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[…] 1875, Epes Sargent, The Proof Palpable of Immortality:
   • Don’t you find, that things fail to materialize? Nothing materializes! Everything withers in the bud. 1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love:
   • 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 […] 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?:
   • And the citationality of these acts—and the calibration of such citationalities to each other—materializes as the very media forms in question. 2016, Constantine V. Nakassis, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India, page 230:
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.

Forms

Deriveds

materializer · rematerialize · materializable · dematerialize · unmaterialized

Synonyms

incorporate

Translations (38)

bg материализирам се (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · pl zmaterializować (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · nl materialiseren (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · io korpeskar (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · vo stöfikön (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · pl materializować się (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · ru материализоваться (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · ja 現る (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · bn বাস্তবায়িত (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · fi materialisoida (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · pt materializar (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · da materialisere (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · sv materialisera (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · de materialisieren (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · de sich materialisieren (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · fi materialisoitua (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · pt materializar (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · sv materialisera (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · ca materialitzar (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · fi aineellistaa (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · ca materialitzar (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · cs zhmotnit se (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · da materialisere (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · io materiigar (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · ar تَجَسَّدَ (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · fi aineellistua (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · ja 現れる (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · bg материализирам (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · bn মাটিআরিআলাইজ্ (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · vo stöfükön (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · bn মাটিআরিআলাইজ্ (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · pl materializować (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · es materializar (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · ar جَسَّدَ (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · fr matérialiser (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · cs zhmotnit (to cause to take physical form or to appear) · es materializarse (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere) · pl zmaterializować się (to take physical form or to appear seemingly from nowhere)