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materialize

English translation: appear

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English term or phrase:materialize
Selected answer:appear
Entered by: Dan Dascalescu

17:06 Jul 28, 2003
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: materialize
I heard stories about people who could levitate, I heard of people who had been buried underground for weeks on end. When I got there, I found all of this happening all over the place, with people materializing everywhere.

Harrison on trip to India

What does materialize here refer to?
Lacrimosa
Local time: 11:37
appear / assume material form
Explanation:
Such people are said to be capable of disappearing (dematerializing) from one place and appearing (materializing) in another one.
Selected response from:

Dan Dascalescu
United States
Local time: 02:37
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +37appear / assume material form
Dan Dascalescu
4 +2become visible
martsina
4 +1with people arriving (colloquial)
Сергей Лузан
4to people
Federica Masante


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +37
appear / assume material form


Explanation:
Such people are said to be capable of disappearing (dematerializing) from one place and appearing (materializing) in another one.


    Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=materialize&r=67
Dan Dascalescu
United States
Local time: 02:37
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in pair: 6

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marian Greenfield
1 min
  -> Hi! If you'd like this question to have the most agrees on ProZ, please agree below :-)
agree  J. Leo (X)
2 mins
  -> "Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?" :-)
agree  Paula Vaz-Carreiro
2 mins
  -> 1, 2, 3!
agree  Alaa Zeineldine: appear as if from nowhere
4 mins
  -> "As I lay in my bed at night i look up into the sky at all the stars and think to myself... WHERE IS MY ROOF!?" :-)
agree  Teresa Reinhardt
8 mins
  -> Thank you all!
agree  jerrie
20 mins
  -> 5
agree  Natalia Koltsova
26 mins
  -> Oops, that '5' above should be '6', and this is 7!
agree  Marion Burns
41 mins
  -> You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
agree  Christopher Crockett: Literally.
43 mins
  -> Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.
agree  DGK T-I
52 mins
  -> 10
agree  Catherine Norton
54 mins
  -> "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -- Alexander Graham Bell
agree  Syeda Tanbira Zaman
1 hr
  -> 12
agree  Fuad Yahya
1 hr
  -> Wow! So many agrees! Keep them up :-) BTW, is there a record for the number of agrees?
agree  Jack Doughty: Can't leave you with unlucky number 13!
1 hr
  -> Thanks Jack and thank you all! If every English pro would agree, we'd have a list of English pros on this page :-)
agree  Steffen Walter
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Steffen! It's gettin' funny :-)
agree  Kathrin.B
2 hrs
  -> 16
agree  awilliams
3 hrs
  -> "Fear nothing but fear itself!"
agree  Yelena.
3 hrs
  -> "Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere"
agree  Daniel Mencher
4 hrs
  -> "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." (Hannah More)
agree  Özden Arıkan: suddenly a voice "materialized" in my room: "go there, round it up, round it up!"
5 hrs
  -> 19
agree  António Ribeiro: One more!!!
9 hrs
  -> Thanks António, this is the 20th!
agree  Monika Coulson: Totally agree :)
10 hrs
  -> "Self-confidence is not everything, just that there's nothing much outside of it." (Gloria Steinem)
agree  RHELLER: Dan Dan the funny man :-)
11 hrs
  -> :-)
agree  Claudia Alvis: Let's keep it going.
12 hrs
  -> "The things that come to those who wait...
agree  Francesca Siotto
13 hrs
  -> ...may be the things left by those who got there first."
agree  Andrzej Lejman
14 hrs
  -> -- Should be credited to Abraham Lincoln.
agree  PAS: well, here you go...
14 hrs
  -> ..Lincoln's advisors were telling him the time wasn't right for him to run for President and that "good things come to those who wait."...
agree  Pee Eff (X)
14 hrs
  -> ...Lincoln then made the above statement, decided to run for President, and the rest is history.
agree  vixen: Here's one more...
15 hrs
  -> 28!
agree  Will Matter
15 hrs
  -> "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
agree  Matthew Coulson
16 hrs
  -> "It's not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better." -- Alberta Lee Cox
agree  agtranslat: 30 definetely not enough
18 hrs
  -> Definitely not enough! :-)
agree  langnet: One more...
19 hrs
  -> There are three types of people - the will's the won'ts and the can'ts...
agree  Bin Zhang
23 hrs
  -> ...The will's accomplish everything, the won'ts won't do anything and the can'ts will not try anything.
agree  CHENOUMI (X): I'm the 35th as of 7/29/03. You're missing 20 more "agrees" to beat the record of 54 to date!
1 day 6 hrs
  -> 35, everybody, this is 35! Sorry for miscounting Xola's answer as the 19th, is was actually the 20th!
agree  Tanja Abramovic (X): here's one more ...
6 days
agree  Alejandro Moreno-Ramos: 37
2102 days
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
become visible


Explanation:
they say some people can become visible (in flesh) somewhere else, different from the place they are actually staying. Sometimes they materialise merely out of air ( or imagination, or nowhere, etc.)

martsina
Israel
Local time: 12:37
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Dan Dascalescu: martsina, care for an 'agree' exchange? We're aiming for the answer with the most agrees and there are already 14! :-)
1 hr
  -> certainly I agree,take my 15th> just was not on the net :-)
agree  NancyLynn
8 days
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to people


Explanation:
the verb materialize here clearly refers to people, meaning people appeared everywhere.

Federica Masante
Local time: 11:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
with people arriving (colloquial)


Explanation:
Hope it helps. Good luck, Lacrimosa!
Re.: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English by A. S. Hornby ISBN 0 19 431101 5.

Сергей Лузан
Russian Federation
Local time: 12:37
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 49

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bin Zhang
7 hrs
  -> Thanx, Bin Zhang!
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