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materialise

materialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize.

Meaning of materialize

Verb

materialize (third-person singular simple present materializes, present participle materializing, simple past and past participle materialized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
    Synonyms:
    incorporate
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
    • a spirit form, temporarily materialized, and undistinguishable from a human being in the flesh, has come forth in the light[…]1875, Epes Sargent, The Proof Palpable of Immortality
  3. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
  4. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
  5. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.

Forms of materialise

third-person singular presentmaterialises
present participlematerialising
past participlematerialised
pastmaterialised

Origin of materialise

From material + -ise; compare with French matérialiser.

Words formed from materialise

Questions about materialise

What is materialise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Materialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize.

Words near materialise in the dictionary

  1. material witness
  2. material witnesses
  3. material-handling
  4. materialisation
  5. materialisations
  6. materialise
  7. materialised
  8. materialiser
  9. materialisers
  10. materialises
  11. materialising

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