What is the meaning of material?

noun

• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
  • usage: "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
  • synonyms: stuff
• Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form.
  • usage: "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"
• Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.
  • usage: "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
  • synonyms: fabric, cloth, textile
• Things needed for doing or making something.
  • usage: "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"
• A person judged suitable for admission or employment.
  • usage: "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"

adjective

• Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests.
  • usage: "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"
• Derived from or composed of matter.
  • usage: "the material universe"
• Directly relevant to a matter especially a law case.
  • usage: "his support made a material difference"; "evidence material to the issue at hand"; "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"; "a material witness"
• Concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being. "material needs"; "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens- T. Roosevelt
• Having material or physical form or substance."that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
  • synonyms: corporeal
• Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary."the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things- Shakespeare
  • synonyms: substantial, real