Materialize vs Crystallize - What's the difference?
materialize | crystallize |
To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
* Epes Sargent
To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
(transitive, chemistry, physics) to make something form into crystals
to assume a crystalline form
to give something a definite or precise form
to take a definite form
to coat something with crystals, especially with sugar
In transitive terms the difference between materialize and crystallize
is that materialize is to regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter while crystallize is to coat something with crystals, especially with sugar.In intransitive terms the difference between materialize and crystallize
is that materialize is to take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere while crystallize is to take a definite form.materialize
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Alternative forms
* materialise (UK )Verb
(materializ)- It is asserted that in a series of sittings extending through several months a female spirit form, temporarily materialized and not distinguishable from a human being, repeatedly came from a cabinet into the light
crystallize
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Alternative forms
* crystalize * (non-Oxford British spelling) crystallise, crystaliseVerb
(crystalliz)- I crystallized the copper sulphate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.
- The copper sulphate crystallized from solution.
- After some thought, I crystallized my ideas for the paper.
- My ideas crystallized overnight.
- We crystallized the fruit by coating in sugar.
