different between appliance vs material

English

Etymology

Recorded since the 1560s. From the English apply +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??pla??ns/
• Rhymes: -a??ns

Noun

appliance (countable and uncountable, plural appliances)

1. An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end (often specified), especially:
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,^[1]

     Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose

     To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;

     And in the calmest and most stillest night,

     With all appliances and means to boot,

     Deny it to a king?

   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, Part 2, Chapter 16,^[2]

     “ […] Oh, the pipe! won’t you have it lit again, father?” said Eppie, lifting that medicinal appliance from the ground.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, Chapter 3, p. 20,^[3]

     […] sleeping life waiting to be spread and dispersed, every seed armed with an appliance of dispersal, twisting darts and parachutes for the wind, little spears and balls of tiny thorns, and all waiting for animals and for the wind, for a man’s trouser cuff or the hem of a woman’s skirt […]

   1. A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electrically or by another small motor, used in homes to perform domestic functions (household appliance) and/or in offices.

   2. An attachment, a piece of equipment to adapt another tool or machine to a specific purpose.
2. (obsolete) The act of applying.

   Synonym: application

   • 1658, Elias Ashmole, The Way to Bliss, London: Nath. Brook, Book 2, Chapter 2 “Of Health,” p. 75,^[4]

     […] there be three things, and every one full of under-branches belonging to this Art and way of Healing: The first is knowledge of the Diseases: the second is the Remedies against them: and the third of the appliance of Remedies; All which should be traversed in this Discourse.
3. (obsolete) A means of eliminating or counteracting something undesirable, especially an illness.

   Synonyms: cure, medicine, remedy

   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 3,^[5]

     […] Diseases desperate grown

     By desperate appliance are reliev’d,

     Or not at all.

   • 1617, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, A Fair Quarrel, London: I.T., Act II, Scene 1,^[6]

     Physician. Now I haue found you out, you are in loue.

     Jane. I thinke I am, what your appliance now?

     Can all your Paracelsian mixtures cure it,

     ’T must be a Surgeon of the Ciuill Law,

     I feare that must cure me.

   • c. 1775, Thomas Hull, Moral Tales in Verse, London: George Cawthorn, 1797, Volume 2, “The Advantages of Repentance,” pp. 161-162,^[7]

     With charitable care

     They rais’d him up, and, by appliance meet,

     Quicken’d the pulse, and bade it flow anew.

   • 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (translator), The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Purgatory, Canto 30,^[8]

     So low he fell, that all appliances

     For his salvation were already short,

     Save showing him the people of perdition.

4. (obsolete, rare) Willing service, willingness to act as someone wishes.

   Synonym: compliance

   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,^[9]

     And hearing your high majesty is touch’d

     With that malignant cause wherein the honour

     Of my dear father’s gift stands chief in power,

     I come to tender it and my appliance

     With all bound humbleness.

Hyponyms

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Spanish

Etymology

From English appliance.

Noun

appliance m (plural appliances)

1. (rare) appliance

   Synonym: electrodoméstico

English

Etymology

From Middle English material, from Late Latin m?teri?lis, from Latin m?teria (“wood, material, substance”), from m?ter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??t??i.?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??t?????l/
• Hyphenation: ma?te?ri?al

Adjective

material (comparative more material, superlative most material)

1. Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
   • 1913, Alfred Bowyer Sharpe, Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Evil

     the material elements of the universe

2. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.

   Antonym: spiritual

3. (law, accounting) Significant.

   • discourse, which was always material, not trifling

   • I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.

   Antonym: immaterial

Synonyms

• (related to matter): See also Thesaurus:substantial
• (worldly): mundane
• (significant): See also Thesaurus:pertinent

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

material (countable and uncountable, plural materials)

2. Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
4. Text written for a specific purpose.

6. A sample or specimens for study.
8. Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric.

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

10. The people collectively who are qualified for a certain position or activity.

12. Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
13. The substance that something is made or composed of.
14. (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard.

Usage notes

• Sense 4 ("cloth" or "fabric") rather awkwardly uses material to refer to a holonym (or subgroup, or, in this case, a more specific iteration) of itself. "Fabric" or "cloth" are more specific (or put another way, less vague) choices of word than "material" when referring to a textile.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:material

Derived terms

Related terms

• matter

Translations

See also

• materiel

Verb

material (third-person singular simple present materials, present participle materialling, simple past and past participle materialled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.

Anagrams

• Armalite

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin materialis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m?.t?.?i?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma.te.?i?al/

Adjective

material (masculine and feminine plural materials)

1. material (clarification of this definition is needed)

Noun

material m (plural materials)

1. material (clarification of this definition is needed)

Related terms

• matèria

Further reading

• “material” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin materialis.

Noun

material

1. material

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Galician

Noun

material m (plural materiais)

1. material

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch materiaal, from Middle Dutch materiael, from Middle French material, from Old French material, from Latin m?teri?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma.te?ri.al]
• Hyphenation: ma?té?ri?al

Noun

material (plural material-material, first-person possessive materialku, second-person possessive materialmu, third-person possessive materialnya)

1. material: matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.

Related terms

Further reading

• “material” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• materiel, materiall, materyal, materyall, matryal

Etymology

From Latin m?teri?lis; equivalent to matere +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat?ri?a?l/, /ma?t?ri?a?l/, /ma?t??rial/, /mat?ri???l/, /ma?t??ri?l/

Adjective

material (plural and weak singular materiale)

1. Extant in matter or having physical form; material.
2. Not supernatural or spiritual; regular, conventional, worldly.
3. Being the physical attributes or properties of a thing.
4. Affecting or modifying physical matter or attributes.
5. (rare) Prominent, significant.

Descendants

• English: material

References

• “m??teri?l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-12.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin materiale.

Noun

material n (definite singular materialet, indefinite plural material or materialer, definite plural materiala or materialene)

1. alternative form of materiale

Derived terms

• råmaterial

References

• “material” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin m?teri?lis, from Latin m?teria (“wood, material, substance”), from m?ter (“mother”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma.te.?i.?aw/, /ma.te.??jaw/
• Hyphenation: ma?te?ri?al

Noun

material m (plural materiais)

1. material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)
2. material (sample or specimens for study)
   1. footage (amount of film produced)
   2. (education) resources used in class
3. tackle; supplies; gear; rig (objects collected for use in a particular activity)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:material.

Adjective

material m or f (plural materiais, comparable)

1. (chemistry) material (relating to or composed of matter)
2. (religion) material; worldly (relating to physical rather than spiritual matters)

   Synonym: terreno

3. (of a person, derogatory) materialistic; consumeristic (obsessed with consumer goods)

   Synonyms: materialista, consumista

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:material.

Derived terms

• materialismo
• materialista
• materialmente

Related terms

• matéria

Further reading

• “material” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French matériel, from Latin materialis.

Noun

material n (plural materiali)

1. material

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin m?teri?lis.

Adjective

material (plural materiales)

1. material

Noun

material m (plural materiales)

1. material

Derived terms

• materialmente
• material particulado

Related terms

• materialismo
• materialista
• materia

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

material n

1. a material
2. a matter, a subject (of study)

Declension

Related terms

• bildmaterial
• forskningsmaterial
• informationsmaterial
• materialförvaltare
• materialism
• materialist
• materialkategori
• materialprovning
• materialtyp
• materiel
• materiell
• textmaterial
• tidningsmaterial

Further reading

• material in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)