materialize

present singular third person materializes · participle present materializing · participle past materialized · past materialized · alternative materialise

1. BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitiveTo cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

   Synonyms: incorporate

2. BritishEnglishOxfordUSintransitiveTo take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.

   Don’t you find, that things fail to materialize? Nothing materializes! Everything withers in the bud.

   1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love

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   a spirit form, temporarily materialized, and undistinguishable from a human being in the flesh, has come forth in the light[…]

   1875, Epes Sargent, The Proof Palpable of Immortality

   Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed, with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere […]

   1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?

   And the citationality of these acts—and the calibration of such citationalities to each other—materializes as the very media forms in question.

   2016, Constantine V. Nakassis, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India, page 230

3. BritishEnglishOxfordUSintransitiveTo become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
4. BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitiveTo regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
5. BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitivecomputingTo perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.