Material and Implement

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

• Instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end.

verb

• Apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design.
  • usage: "implement a procedure"
• Ensure observance of laws and rules.
  • usage: "Apply the rules to everyone";
  • synonyms: enforce, apply
• Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue.
  • usage: "Did he go through with the treatment"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"
  • synonyms: follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, put through, go through

• (v.t.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
• (n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; especially, an instrument, toll or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry or of war.
• (v.t.) To accomplish; to fulfill.
• (v.t.) To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.