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 ma·te·ri·al·ize /məˈtɪriəˌlaɪz/
 (vt.)賦與實質,使體現,物質化(vi.)成有形,體現,實現

 Ma·te·ri·al·ize v. t. [imp. & p. p. Materialized p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing ]
 1. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
    Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images.   --Tatler.
 2. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
 3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
 4. Spiritualism To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.
    A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being.   --Epes Sargent.

 Ma·te·ri·al·ize, v. i.
 1. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]
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 materialize
      v : come into being; become reality; "Her dream really
          materialized" [syn: happen, materialise] [ant: dematerialize,
           dematerialize]