materialize

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Meaning

To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.

To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.

To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.

To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.

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To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external. Fernando Pessoa

Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor. Alexis de Tocqueville

We live in troubled and dangerous times. But if we make the right choices, America's future will be even better than our past and better than our present. On the other hand, if we make improvident choices, the bright horizon I foresee will never materialize. Mitt Romney

Your dream is a reality that is just waiting for you to materialize it! Steve Maraboli

Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize. Mignon McLaughlin

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows. Colin Quinn

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