What's the difference between happen and materialize?

Happen


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
  • (v. i.) To take place; to occur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (3) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (4) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
  • (5) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
  • (6) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (7) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
  • (8) "David Cameron has lost control of what's happening in the NHS.
  • (9) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
  • (10) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (11) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (12) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (14) At present, fewer than 20% do so, with more than half of all deaths happening in hospital and the rest in hospices or care homes.
  • (15) It mostly happens to strong men whose biceps muscle are contracted and overstretched unexpectedly.
  • (16) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
  • (17) There is no evidence to support the move to seven-day services, there is no evidence of what is going to happen if we divert our resources away from the week to weekends.
  • (18) Some factors of resistance (such as side benefits) happen in reactive and neurotic depressions and are independent of the pharmacological action.
  • (19) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
  • (20) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?

Materialize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
  • (v. t.) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
  • (v. t.) To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
  • (v. t.) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.
  • (v. i.) To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (2) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
  • (3) Significant amounts of 35S-labeled material were lost during the alkali treatment.
  • (4) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (5) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
  • (6) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
  • (7) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
  • (8) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (9) The base materials caused more pulpal inflammation than the control material, Kalzinol, although by an indirect mechanism.
  • (10) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
  • (11) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
  • (12) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
  • (13) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
  • (14) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
  • (15) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
  • (16) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (17) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
  • (18) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
  • (19) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
  • (20) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.

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