Material vs Team - What's the difference?
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Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
* Whewell
Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
Significant.
* Evelyn
* John Locke
(senseid)Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
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, title= (senseid)Text written for a specific purpose.
(senseid)A sample or specimens for study.
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(senseid)Cloth to be made into a garment.
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(senseid)A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
(senseid)Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
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, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The substance that something is made or composed of.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (obsolete) To form from matter; to materialize.
* Sir Thomas Browne
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
* Macaulay
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 111:
Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
(obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
* Holland
* Dryden
(UK, legal, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
* ALEXANDER M. BURRILL, LAW DICTIONARY & GLOSSARY, vol II, 1871 URL: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022836450
To form a group, as for sports or work.
To convey or haul with a team.
As nouns the difference between material and team
is that material is material (matter which may be shaped or manipulated) while team is team.material
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
- the material elements of the universe
- Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
- You've made several material contributions to this project.
- This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
- discourse, which was always material , never trifling
- I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
Antonyms
* (wordly) spiritual * (significant) immaterialDerived terms
* material breach * material cause * material girl * material worldNoun
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- With fresh material', taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the '''material''' examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium ' material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* materialism * materialist * material culture * material science * materials science * postmaterialism * postmaterialist * raw materialSee also
* materielVerb
(materiall)- I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.
Anagrams
* ----team
English
(wikipedia team)Etymology 1
From (etyl) teme, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.
- The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
- We need more volunteers for the netball team .
- The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
- a team of ducklings about her
- a long team of snowy swans on high
- TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.
Usage notes
* When referring to the actions of a sports team, British English typically uses the third-person plural form rather than the third-person singular. However, this is not done in other contexts such as in business or politics. ** **: Manchester were unable to bring the strong team they originally intended, ** **: Leeds were champions again.Descendants
* German: (l)Verb
(en verb)- They teamed to complete the project.
- to team lumber
- (Thoreau)