英和和英

語源

From material +‎ -ize.

発音

• IPA: /məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/

動詞

materialize (third-person singular simple present materializes, present participle materializing, simple past and past participle materialized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
2. (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
   • 1875, Epes Sargent, The Proof Palpable of Immortality:

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

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

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

   • 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?:

     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 […]

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

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

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

派生語