Material and Solid

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

• Matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure.
• The state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape.
  • synonyms: solidness, solid state
• A three-dimensional shape.

adjective

• Characterized by good substantial quality.
  • usage: "solid comfort"; "a solid base hit"
• Of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous.
  • usage: "ice is water in the solid state"
• Entirely of one substance with no holes inside.
  • usage: "a solid block of wood"
• Of one substance or character throughout.
  • usage: "solid gold"; "carved out of solid rock"
• Uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks.
  • usage: "a solid line across the page"; "solid sheets of water"
• Providing abundant nourishment.
  • usage: "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day"
  • synonyms: hearty, satisfying, square, substantial
• Of good quality and condition; solidly built.
  • usage: "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"
  • synonyms: strong, substantial
• Not soft or yielding to pressure.
  • usage: "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground"
  • synonyms: firm
• Having three dimensions.
  • usage: "a solid object"
• Impenetrable for the eye.
  • usage: "solid blackness"
• Financially sound.
  • usage: "the bank is solid and will survive this attack"
• Of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial.
  • usage: "work of solid scholarship"; "based on solid facts"
• Meriting respect or esteem.
  • usage: "an upstanding member of the community"
  • synonyms: upstanding
• Of the same color throughout.
  • usage: "solid color"
  • synonyms: self-colored, self-coloured
• Acting together as a single undiversified whole.
  • usage: "a solid voting bloc"
  • synonyms: unanimous, whole

• (a.) Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
• (a.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
• (a.) Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
• (n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
• (n.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
• (a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
• (a.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
• (a.) Having the constituent parts so compact or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay or to incompact, like sand.
• (a.) United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.
• (a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
• (a.) Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.
• (a.) Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
• (a.) Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.