Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Material Witness

Definition: Material Witness

Material Witness

Noun

1. A witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms within Context: Material Witness

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Evidence

Witness, indicator, hostile witness; eyewitness, earwitness, material witness, state's evidence; deponent; sponsor; cojuror.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Modern Usage: Material Witness

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Material Witness (1965)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: Material Witness

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: Material Witness

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Ghana

The Government did not pursue prosecution of the journalists and publisher involved in the broadcast of the tapes; however, it did call one journalist in for questioning as a material witness. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Material Witness

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

material witness

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Material Witness

Language Translations for "material witness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

témoin-clé. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aterialmay itnessway.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

важный свидетель. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Misspellings: Material Witness

Misspellings

"Material Witness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: material wittnes, material wittness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Anagrams: Material Witness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-s-t-t-w"

-3 letters: antirealisms, antirealists, materialises, materialists, materialness, mistranslate.

-4 letters: altimetries, antirealism, antirealist, martensites, materialise, materialist, maternities, mentalities, mineralises, streamlines, wintertimes.

-5 letters: aerialists, aliterates, alternates, altimeters, animaliers, antielites, artemisias, assimilate, earwitness, eliminates, enamelists, estaminets, intimaters, itinerates, lamaseries, limewaters, linearises, martensite, meltwaters, mentalists, mesnalties, metalwares, metritises, mineralise, ministates, misentries, misrelates, miswritten, nasalities, natalities, reanimates, reinstates, retaliates, saintliest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.