Materialize

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.

整理:劳埃德

• Further interesting experiments showed that the expected large leakage of current from the rails in wet weather did not materialize. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

校对:谢尔曼