Material and Reference

Material

Material noun - The basic elements from which something can be developed.

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Reference and material are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reference" instead a noun "Material".

Reference noun - Something mentioned in a text as providing related and especially supporting information.

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Material and reference are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Material" instead a noun "Reference".

good	good material	good reference
similar	similar material	similar reference
common	common material	common reference
original	original material	original reference
Other adjectives: actual, big, little, bad, sexual, early, explicit, later, earlier.

Apocalypse Now contains a nice reference to its source material, Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Source: Recursive Canon
Some card effects reference characters or character relationships in their source material.

Source: Tabletop Game / Weiss Schwarz
He settles for focusing instead on the raw numbers of captured Soviet personnel and material without reference to the Soviets' ability to replace it, something many ex-Wehrmacht generals do in their own postwar memoirs.

Source: World War II / War In Europe And Africa

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Reference and Material. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/material/reference

Material & Reference. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/material/reference>.

Reference or Material. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/material/reference.

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