Material and Object

material

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"

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

object

A tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow.
- usage: "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"
- synonyms: physical object
The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable. )
- usage: "the sole object of her trip was to see her children"
- synonyms: aim, objective, target
Grammar) a constituent that is acted upon. (
- usage: "the object of the verb"
The focus of cognitions or feelings.
- usage: "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
Computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer. (
- usage: "in object-oriented programming, objects include data and define its status, its methods of operation and how it interacts with other objects"

Express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent.
- usage: "She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with"; "When asked to drive the truck, she objected that she did not have a driver's license"
Be averse to or express disapproval of.
- usage: "My wife objects to modern furniture"

(v.t.) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
(v.t.) That which is set or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc.
(v.t.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
(v.t.) A word, phrase or clause toward which an action is directed or is considered to be directed; as, the object of a transitive verb.
(a.) Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.
(v.t.) That by which the mind or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause.
(v.t.) That which is put or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark.
(v.i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.
(v.t.) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary