happen, materialize, materialise
(verb) come into being; become reality; “Her dream really materialized”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
materialize (third-person singular simple present materializes, present participle materializing, simple past and past participle materialized)
(transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
(intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
(transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
Source: Wiktionary
Ma*te"ri*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Materialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing.] Etym: [Cf. F. matérialiser.]
1. To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. Having wich 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)
Definition: 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.
Definition: To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 May 2024
(verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not; “he is masquerading as an expert on the internet”; “This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
