Material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing.

synonym: staple.

Roget 674: non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation; inculture^†, inconcoction^†, improvidence.    immaturity, crudity; rawness etc. adj.; abortion; disqualification.    [Absence of art] nature, state of nature; virgin soil, unweeded garden; neglect etc. 460.    rough copy etc. (plan) 626; germ etc. 153; raw material etc. 635.    improvisation etc. (impulse) 612.    ... show more

Roget 635: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery etc. 384; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber.    materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum etc. (food) 298; ammunition etc. (arms) 727; contingents; relay, reinforcement, reenforcement^†; baggage etc. (personal property) 780; means etc. 632; calico, cambric, cashmere.    ... show more

Dutch: grondstof, materiaal, materie
Polish: surowiec