Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of one that makes.
- noun The process of coming into being.
- noun The means of gaining success or realizing potential.
- noun Something that is made, especially a quantity made at one time.
- noun The abilities or qualities needed for development.
- noun The material or ingredients needed for making something.
- noun Informal The paper and tobacco for rolling a cigarette.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
- noun What has been made, especially at one time: as, a making of bread.
- noun Composition; structure; make.
- noun Material from which anything may be made; anything capable of being developed into something more advanced.
- noun Poetical composition; poetry.
- noun Fortune; means or cause of success.
- noun plural In coal-mining, the slack and dirt made in holing, kirving, or undercutting the coal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction
- noun Composition, or structure.
- noun obsolete a poem.
- noun That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made.
- noun obsolete External appearance; from.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Process of growth or development.
- verb Present participle of
make .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something
- noun (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something
- noun the act that results in something coming to be
Etymologies
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Examples
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_ -- In making this dial you need have no regard to the latitude of the situation, for that is to be considered in the _placing_, and not in the _making_ of it. 1st.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 Various
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Thats such a thing as I never heared of before, said uncle Pullet, who had been making haste with his lozenge in order to express his amazement, making away with a note!
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I do not understand in what the discovery consisted; there may be a secret method of making an artificial composition, but how can you talk of _making_ a substance which naturally exists?
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Case responded by moving partners between offices, making lateral hires (which is ongoing) and making up five across its global network.
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Perhaps it is a double entendre, but with author Sheila Kohler's original location being transported to the UK in the film, there is little chance of the title making real sense unless you read the book -- something I plan on doing soon, even if my damned Kindle does not consider it as important as say, Chelsea, Chelsea Bang Bang...
Melody Breyer-Grell: Cracks is Girls Gone Wild ala The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (in a Good Way) Melody Breyer-Grell 2011
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Perhaps it is a double entendre, but with author Sheila Kohler's original location being transported to the UK in the film, there is little chance of the title making real sense unless you read the book -- something I plan on doing soon, even if my damned Kindle does not consider it as important as say, Chelsea, Chelsea Bang Bang...
Melody Breyer-Grell: Cracks is Girls Gone Wild ala The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (in a Good Way) Melody Breyer-Grell 2011
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"Much of the jargon making the crossover to real life is shorthand for new concepts, such as skin-in-the-game and subsidiarization, which everyone struggles to pronounce," Ms. Tahyar says.
Regulators Serve Up Alphabet Soup Jean Eaglesham 2011
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He laughed, but broke off abruptly, the sudden change in his expression making Beth frown.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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He laughed, but broke off abruptly, the sudden change in his expression making Beth frown.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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They seemed to tunnel through her with their sorrow, something about their expression making it seem as though Poe were silently beseeching the onlooker for something.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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