artifact vs building material

building material vs artifact

artifact and building material both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
artifact	Yes	No	No	No
building material	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, building material is a hyponym of artifact; that is, building material is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than artifact:

artifact: a man-made object taken as a whole
building material: material used for constructing buildings

Other hyponyms of artifact include article, facility, Americana, anachronism, antiquity, block, button, commodity, good, trade good, cone, covering, creation, decker, decoration, ornament, ornamentation, electroplate, excavation, duplicate, extra, cloth, fabric, material, textile, facility, installation, fixture, float, insert, inset, instrumentality, instrumentation, means, bed, layer, lemon, stinker, line, marker, mystification, opening, cushioning, padding, plaything, toy, ready-made, restoration, flat solid, sheet, sphere, square, squeaker, slip, strip, construction, structure, surface, thing, track, way, weight, pavement, paving, paving material.

artifact (noun)	building material (noun)
a man-made object taken as a whole	material used for constructing buildings

Difference between artifact and building material

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