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Showcase vs Materialized - What's the difference?

showcase | materialized |

As verbs the difference between showcase and materialized

is that showcase is to display, demonstrate, show, or present while materialized is (materialize).

As a noun showcase

is a case for displaying merchandise or valuable items.

showcase

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A case for displaying merchandise or valuable items.
  • A setting, occasion, or medium for exhibiting something or someone, especially in an attractive or favorable aspect.
  • Synonyms

    * (case for displaying) vitrine, display case * (setting for exhibiting in favorable aspect) flagship (especially of a store)

    Verb

    (showcas)
  • To display, demonstrate, show, or present.
  • :I think the demonstration really showcases the strengths of the software.
  • * 2012 August 24, Yoram Hazony, “The God of Independent Minds”, The Wall Street Journal :
  • Today's debates over the place of religion in modern life often showcase the claim that belief in God stifles reason and science.

    materialized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (materialize)

  • materialize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * materialise (UK )

    Verb

    (materializ)
  • To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
  • * Epes Sargent
  • 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
  • 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.