Material vs Mystery - What's the difference?
material | mystery |
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128
, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (senseid)Text written for a specific purpose.
(senseid)A sample or specimens for study.
*
(senseid)Cloth to be made into a garment.
*
(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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The substance that something is made or composed of.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (obsolete) To form from matter; to materialize.
* Sir Thomas Browne
Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=
, chapter=4, title= Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=5 (label) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
A secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated.
S9
As nouns the difference between material and mystery
is that material is material (matter which may be shaped or manipulated) while mystery is something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.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
(wikipedia material) (en noun)Gemstones, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
- 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.
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz
Stents to Prevent Stroke, passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.}}
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
* ----mystery
English
Noun
(mysteries)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.
citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery .}}