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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

materialize

English answer:

appear

Added to glossary by Dan Dascalescu
Jul 28, 2003 17:06
21 yrs ago
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English term

materialize

Non-PRO English Other
I heard stories about people who could levitate, I heard of people who had been buried underground for weeks on end. When I got there, I found all of this happening all over the place, with people materializing everywhere.

Harrison on trip to India

What does materialize here refer to?
Responses
5 +37 appear / assume material form
4 +2 become visible
4 +1 with people arriving (colloquial)
4 to people

Responses

+37
3 mins
Selected

appear / assume material form

Such people are said to be capable of disappearing (dematerializing) from one place and appearing (materializing) in another one.
Reference:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=materialize&r=67

Peer comment(s):
agree Marian Greenfield
1 min
Hi! If you'd like this question to have the most agrees on ProZ, please agree below :-)
agree J. Leo (X)
2 mins
"Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?" :-)
agree Paula Vaz-Carreiro
2 mins
1, 2, 3!
agree Alaa Zeineldine : appear as if from nowhere
4 mins
"As I lay in my bed at night i look up into the sky at all the stars and think to myself... WHERE IS MY ROOF!?" :-)
agree Teresa Reinhardt
8 mins
Thank you all!
agree jerrie
20 mins
5
agree Natalia Koltsova
26 mins
Oops, that '5' above should be '6', and this is 7!
agree Marion Burns
41 mins
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
agree Christopher Crockett : Literally.
43 mins
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.
agree DGK T-I
52 mins
10
agree Catherine Norton
54 mins
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -- Alexander Graham Bell
agree Syeda Tanbira Zaman
1 hr
12
agree Fuad Yahya
1 hr
Wow! So many agrees! Keep them up :-) BTW, is there a record for the number of agrees?
agree Jack Doughty : Can't leave you with unlucky number 13!
1 hr
Thanks Jack and thank you all! If every English pro would agree, we'd have a list of English pros on this page :-)
agree Steffen Walter
2 hrs
Thanks Steffen! It's gettin' funny :-)
agree Kathrin.B
2 hrs
16
agree awilliams
3 hrs
"Fear nothing but fear itself!"
agree Yelena.
3 hrs
"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere"
agree Daniel Mencher
4 hrs
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." (Hannah More)
agree Özden Arıkan : suddenly a voice "materialized" in my room: "go there, round it up, round it up!"
5 hrs
19
agree António Ribeiro : One more!!!
9 hrs
Thanks António, this is the 20th!
agree Monika Coulson : Totally agree :)
10 hrs
"Self-confidence is not everything, just that there's nothing much outside of it." (Gloria Steinem)
agree RHELLER : Dan Dan the funny man :-)
11 hrs
:-)
agree Claudia Alvis : Let's keep it going.
12 hrs
"The things that come to those who wait...
agree Francesca Siotto
13 hrs
...may be the things left by those who got there first."
agree Andrzej Lejman
14 hrs
-- Should be credited to Abraham Lincoln.
agree PAS : well, here you go...
14 hrs
..Lincoln's advisors were telling him the time wasn't right for him to run for President and that "good things come to those who wait."...
agree Pee Eff (X)
14 hrs
...Lincoln then made the above statement, decided to run for President, and the rest is history.
agree vixen : Here's one more...
15 hrs
28!
agree Will Matter
15 hrs
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
agree Matthew Coulson
16 hrs
"It's not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better." -- Alberta Lee Cox
agree agtranslat : 30 definetely not enough
18 hrs
Definitely not enough! :-)
agree langnet : One more...
19 hrs
There are three types of people - the will's the won'ts and the can'ts...
agree Bin Zhang
23 hrs
...The will's accomplish everything, the won'ts won't do anything and the can'ts will not try anything.
agree CHENOUMI (X) : I'm the 35th as of 7/29/03. You're missing 20 more "agrees" to beat the record of 54 to date!
1 day 6 hrs
35, everybody, this is 35! Sorry for miscounting Xola's answer as the 19th, is was actually the 20th!
agree Tanja Abramovic (X) : here's one more ...
6 days
agree Alejandro Moreno-Ramos : 37
2102 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+2
8 mins

become visible

they say some people can become visible (in flesh) somewhere else, different from the place they are actually staying. Sometimes they materialise merely out of air ( or imagination, or nowhere, etc.)
Peer comment(s):
agree Dan Dascalescu : martsina, care for an 'agree' exchange? We're aiming for the answer with the most agrees and there are already 14! :-)
1 hr
certainly I agree,take my 15th> just was not on the net :-)
agree NancyLynn
8 days
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4 hrs

to people

the verb materialize here clearly refers to people, meaning people appeared everywhere.
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+1
15 hrs

with people arriving (colloquial)

Hope it helps. Good luck, Lacrimosa!
Re.: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English by A. S. Hornby ISBN 0 19 431101 5.
Peer comment(s):
agree Bin Zhang
7 hrs
Thanx, Bin Zhang!
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