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materializes

materializes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about materializes

What is materializes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Materializes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of materialize.

Words near materializes in the dictionary

  1. materializations
  2. materialize
  3. materialized
  4. materializer
  5. materializers
  6. materializes
  7. materializing
  8. materialled
  9. materialling
  10. materially
  11. materialman

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