materialize
Pronunciation: /məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/
The English word “materialize” has 5 meanings listed here.
verb
- To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
- To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
- 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.
Etymology
From material + -ize.
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More English words
- materialistically
- materiality
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- materialized
- materializer
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