Material and Learning

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

• The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge.
  • usage: "the child's acquisition of language"
  • synonyms: acquisition
• Profound scholarly knowledge.
  • synonyms: eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, scholarship, encyclopedism, encyclopaedism

verb

• Gain knowledge or skills.
  • usage: "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate"
  • synonyms: learn, larn, acquire
• Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.
  • usage: "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
  • synonyms: learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see
• Commit to memory; learn by heart.
  • usage: "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet"
  • synonyms: memorize, memorise, con, learn
• Be a student of a certain subject.
  • usage: "She is reading for the bar exam"
  • synonyms: learn, study, read, take
• Impart skills or knowledge to.
  • usage: "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat"
  • synonyms: teach, learn, instruct
• Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort.
  • usage: "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
  • synonyms: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Learn.
• (n.) The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.
• (n.) The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.