materialize

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: ma=te=ri=al=ize
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

materialize, v. t. [Cf. F. matérialiser.].

•  To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.  [1913 Webster]

  "Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images."  [1913 Webster]
•  To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.  [1913 Webster]
•  To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.  [1913 Webster]

  "A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being."  [1913 Webster]

materialize, v. i. 

•  To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.  [1913 Webster]
•  To come into existence; as, the promised donations never materialized.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

materialize, v. (also -ise)
1 intr. become actual fact.
2 a tr. cause (a spirit) to appear in bodily form. b intr. (of a spirit) appear in this way.
3 intr. colloq. appear or be present when expected.
4 tr. represent or express in material form.
5 tr. make materialistic.

Derivative

materialization n.

THESAURUS

materialize

affect, appear, approach, arise, be found, be realized, be revealed, become manifest, become visible, betoken, betray itself, body, body forth, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, chance, come, come along, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come into being, come into existence, come on, come out, come to hand, come to light, come to pass, concretize, constitute, corporealize, corporify, crop out, crop up, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, discover itself, display, divulge, dramatize, draw on, effect, effectuate, embody, emerge, enact, enter, entify, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose to view, express, exteriorize, externalize, fade in, flaunt, flourish, form, found, give sign, give token, hang out, happen, have no secrets, heave in sight, highlight, hypostatize, illuminate, inaugurate, incarnate, incept, incorporate, indicate, install, institute, issue, issue forth, lend substance to, look forth, loom, make clear, make plain, manifest, mean, objectify, occur, open up, organize, outcrop, parade, peep out, perform, personalize, personify, pop up, present, present itself, produce, realize, rear its head, reembody, reify, reincarnate, represent, reveal, rise, roll out, see the light, set forth, set up, shape, shape up, show, show forth, show up, solidify, speak out, speak up, spotlight, spring, spring up, stream forth, strike the eye, substantialize, substantiate, substantify, take a stand, take form, take place, take shape, token, transmigrate, trot out, turn up, typify, unfold, wave

ROGET THESAURUS

materialize

Beginning

VB begin, start, commence, conceive, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter, set out, embark in, incept, initiate, launch, inaugurate, inchoate, rise, arise, originate, usher in, lead off, lead the way, take the lead, take the initiative, head, stand at the head, stand first, stand for, lay the foundations, found, set up, set on foot, agoing, set abroach, set the ball in motion, apply the match to a train, broach, open up, open the door to, get underway, set about, get to work, set to work, set to, make a beginning, make a start, handsel, take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first turf, break ground, break the ice, break cover, pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon, open fire, open the ball, ventilate, air, undertake, come into existence, come into the world, make one's debut, take birth, burst forth, break out, spring up, spring forth, crop up, pop up, appear, materialize, begin at the beginning, begin ab ovo, begin again, begin de novo, start afresh, make a fresh start, take it from the top, shuffle the cards, reshuffle the cards, resume, recommence.

Visibility

VB be become visible, appear, open to the view, meet the eye, catch the eye, basset, present itself, show manifest itself, produce itself, discover itself, reveal itself, expose itself, betray itself, stand forth, stand out, materialize, show, arise, peep out, peer out, crop out, start up, spring up, show up, turn up, crop up, glimmer, loom, glare, burst forth, burst upon the view, burst upon the sight, heave in sight, come in sight, come into view, come out, come forth, come forward, see the light of day, break through the clouds, make its appearance, show its face, appear to one's eyes, come upon the stage, float before the eyes, speak for itself, attract the attention, reappear, live in a glass house, expose to view.