Major vs Material - What's the difference?
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(en noun), or, when used as a title before a person's name , Major
a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel
Of great significance or importance.
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, title= Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
Of full legal age; having attained majority.
(music) Of a scale which follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
(music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
(music) Containing the note which is a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
(US, Canada, Australia, and, New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
(US, Canada, Australia, and, New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
A person of legal age.
(logic) The major premise.
(Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".
A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.
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to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university
Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
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Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
Significant.
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* John Locke
(senseid)Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
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(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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, 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
As an adjective major
is .As a noun material is
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Alternative forms
* majour (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* (abbreviation)Noun
(wikipedia major)- He used to be a major in the army.
- This is Major Jones.
Usage notes
When used as a title, it is always capitalized. : Example: Major Jane Payne. The rank corresponds to pay grade O-4. Abbreviations: Maj. and MAJ.Etymology 2
(etyl) , from Proto-Indo-European *ma?-yes-'' "greater", comparative of ''*ma?-, *me?- , "great".Adjective
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- the major part of the assembly
- a major scale.
Derived terms
* majorlyAntonyms
* minorNoun
(en noun)- Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major .
- She is a math major .
- He says Ninja Tune retains the master and publishing rights on most of its catalog, making it easy to license quickly. Yet as majors jump on the videogame bandwagon, he fears indies may lose that outlet.
Antonyms
* (a person of legal age) minorVerb
(en verb)- I have decided to major in mathematics.
Anagrams
* ----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.