(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.
Unworldly
Definition:
(a.) Not worldly; spiritual; holy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Honeychile Rider is even more unworldly, depicted in Dr No as part intuitive animal, part innocent child.
(2) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
(3) After all, they had a stating pitcher rotation that featured Pedro Martinez, only a few years removed from the most dominant stretches any starting pitcher has had in baseball history, and a newly signed Curt Schilling, who was second only to an unworldly Johann Santana in that year's Cy Young voting.
(4) With the potential to provide an estimated 5% of the UK's electricity , it's a challenge which has drawn generations of inventive minds, only too keen to get stuck into the public debate before the sheer enormity of the problems – technical, political and environmental – push it to back to the realm of unworldly pipedream for another generation.
(5) There is, nevertheless, something unworldly about him.
(6) How could anyone, cut off from the rest of humanity for more that a quarter of a century, be anything but unworldly, particularly in the handling of money?
(7) The editor admitted that part of the reason for the scandal was that he and almost all his senior executives were so hopelessly unworldly about the city’s large African-American population that they could not judge the veracity of Cooke’s article.
(8) Although highly cerebral, Letwin is regarded as slightly unworldly and his dealings with the media have not always worked out well.
(9) With this as his stake money, he parlayed his way into a takeover of the Golden Nugget casino, then in old, unworldly hands.
(10) Glasman, who lives with his wife and four children in a crowded flat over a clothes shop in Stoke Newington in north London – his title is Baron Glasman of Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill – looked every inch the unworldly academic when he was ennobled.
(11) He said that although the Doha group were in some ways forward-thinking, they were also often unworldly and simplistic.
(12) Surely someone like Emily Brontë , whose stock market investments on her family's behalf belie her unworldly image, or George Eliot , with her appetite for large advances and interest in Germany, might be a more business-friendly choice of novelist?
(13) "Anyone who proposed giving government guarantees to retail depositors and other creditors, and then suggested that such funding could be used to finance highly risky and speculative activities, would be thought rather unworldly.