To be of importance; to matter.
To carry out an action, the result of which is a significant change, or an altered circumstance.
To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.