Material and Basic

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

• (a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
• (a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
• (v.t.) To form from matter; to materialize.
• (a.) Hence: Pertaining to or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
• (a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
• (n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

noun

• A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use.
• Usually plural. ( a necessary commodity for which demand is constant)
  • synonyms: staple

adjective

• Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
  • usage: "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
• Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
  • usage: "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
  • synonyms: canonic, canonical
• Serving as a base or starting point.
  • usage: "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
  • synonyms: introductory
• Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .

• (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
• (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
• (a.) Having the base in excess or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

• Name Meaning: Diminutive of Basil: Royal. Kingly. St Basil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. This name was introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. Derived from the same Greek word as the plant name basil
• Name Origin: Greek