Pronunciations
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/məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/
Verb
To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
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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.
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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.
To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
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To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
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To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
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Verb
come into being; become reality
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Her dream really materialized