(a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
(a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
(a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
(a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
(n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
(v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.
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.
Stationery
Definition:
(n.) The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
(a.) Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The payments were made for ICT hardware, software, associated support services, marketing and company stationery.
(2) Thin stationery paper is used as the absorbent material which controls sedimentation speed and minimizes cellular loss.
(3) Doctor, nurse, chiropodist, dietitian, clerical officer, building and stationery costs were included in the evaluation.
(4) Simple things like buying stationery to sharing grounds and office space are good places to look."
(5) Daft deal Photograph: Debbie Wilbur Three for the price of two is the kind of deal you see all the time, but Asda has gone a little bit further with this offer of three pencil sharpeners for the price of four – it's even included other stationery in the promotion.
(6) His rain-dependent crops were failing anyway, and he hoped to start a stationery shop in a near by town with the money.
(7) The supermarket said electrical goods, homewares, flowers, stationery and toys were particularly buoyant.
(8) Stationery and Reprographics Officer, Royal Household.
(9) Gone are the days when winning The Apprentice meant a lifetime spent buffing Lord Sugar's paperclip collection while weeping with glee in a stationery cupboard off the A1023.
(10) It's a type of benefit on offer for 16- to 18-year-olds in further education from low-income families intended to help pay for essential resources that parents are unable to fund, such as books, stationery and travel cards.
(11) Two groups were allowed to keep their stationery, and two groups were not.
(12) We discuss how pupils have to choose what uniform to wear, what books to read, what sports to play, even what stationery to use, and I think of Julia insisting on wearing her school skirt, and Tom’s football-boot pencil case.
(13) Three-quarters (77%) were providing school bags and stationery; almost half (46%) have provided basic items of clothing like underwear; almost a quarter (24%) have provided laundry facilities; 15% were providing shower facilities, and more than half (54%) were providing free after-school clubs and help with transport.
(14) A “Dora the Explorer” stationery set jostles for space with a white plastic Christmas tree, crammed sideways into a box on the floor.
(15) Of those schools having to make savings, 49% said they were restricting the use of basic resources such as stationery.
(16) Purchasing books, stationery and equipment cost parents an average of £60 a child.
(17) If in the past Anderson has made esoteric references, including to J-cloths and stationery, his backstage explanation was strikingly simple this time.
(18) Palmer said: "Overall, the sectors that are most vulnerable include those affected by shoppers moving to online or digital formats, such as specialists in music, games, books, news and stationery along with the specialists that are most affected by the convenience and price-driven offering of the supermarkets, which includes chemists, health and beauty, and alcohol retailers."
(19) It is a great deal of money, but the MoJ never acknowledges that barristers earn fees, not salaries, and fees have to cover every cost incurred, from shoe leather to stationery to the hours spent in preparation.
(20) This former home of the HMSO government stationery department is one of Norwich's forgotten modernist icons – as is the Hollywood Cinema upstairs, which screened the premiere of Alpha Papa and where Alan himself declared "I love Norwich!"