Maunfactured

Definition

material /mǝ'tÇǝriǝl/ n ၁။ [C,U] ပစၥည္း။ အထည္။ အလားအလာ ရိွသူ။ raw materials for industry (eg oil, metals, etc) ❍ building materials (eg bricks, sand, glass, etc) ❍ writing materials (eg pens, paper, ink) ❍ We only use highquality material for our products. ❍ ( fig ) He is not managerial material (ie will not become a good manager). ၂။ [U,C] အထည္။ အသား။ အစ။ enough material to make a skirt and blouse ❍ cotton/woollen material ❍ sell dressmaking materials. ၃။ [U] စာအုပ္၊ ေဆာင္းပါး စသည္အတြက္ အခ်က္အလက္ ကုန္ၾကမ္း။ She's collecting material for a newspaper article. adj ၁။ ႐ုပ္ဝတၳဳ၊ အထည္ ကိုယ္ျဒပ္ရိွေသာ။ ႐ုပ္။ the material world. Compare IMMATERIAL ၂ ၂။ ႐ုပ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ။ our material needs (eg food and drink) ❍ material wealth/goods ❍ You think too much of material comforts. Compare SPIRITUAL ၁ ၃။ ~ (to sth) ( fml or law ) အေရးႀကီးေသာ။ အဓိကက်ေသာ။ material evidence ❍ Is this point material to your argument? Compare IMMATERIAL ၁ ❏ materially /-iǝli/ adv ပစၥည္းဥစၥာအားျဖင့္ (သို႔) အေျခခံအားျဖင့္။ materially deprived (ie poor) ❍ That does not materially affect my argument (ie in a significant way).

Examples

1. Her dress was made of a thin lacy material.
2. Heavy material for making curtains
3. Brick was used as the main building material for local churches.
4. Radioactive/organic material
5. All waste material is recycled where possible.
6. Newspaper articles are a good source of material for stories.
7. The concert will include material from their new album.
8. Publicity material
9. Staff are expected to produce their own teaching materials.
10. He wasn’t really officer material.