materialize
Meaning
- (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
- (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
- (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
- (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
Synonyms
come into sight
come into view
become real
become visible
come in sight
make real
Translations
Frequency
Etymology
From material + -ize.
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