materialize
To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
Verb
- To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
- 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?:
- To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
- To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
Origin
Etymology tree English material Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English materialize From material + -ize.
Forms
Derived
dematerialize materializable materializer rematerialize unmaterialized