material vs text file

material

noun
  • Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book. 

  • All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard. 

  • The substance that something is made or composed of. 

  • Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something. 

  • Text written for a specific purpose. 

  • A sample or specimens for study. 

  • Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric. 

  • An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display. 

  • A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity. 

adj
  • Significant. 

  • Having to do with matter; consisting of matter. 

  • Worldly, as opposed to spiritual. 

text file

noun
  • A data file containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting 

  • A data file in a character encoding that allows it to be read in non-specialised text editor. 

How often have the words material and text file occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )