'Making' definitions:
Definition of 'making'
From: WordNet
noun
The act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making" [syn: devising, fashioning, making]
noun
An attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something; "her qualifications for the job are excellent"; "one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree"; "she has the makings of fine musician" [syn: qualification, making]
noun
(usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something; "the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake"
Definition of 'Making'
From: GCIDE
- Making \Mak"ing\, n.
- 1. The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Composition, or structure. [1913 Webster]
- 3. a poem. [Obs.] --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
- 4. That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him. [1913 Webster]
- 5. External appearance; from. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'making'
From: GCIDE
- make \make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. made (m[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. making.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak?n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh?n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. Match an equal.]
- 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. [1913 Webster]
- He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii. 4. [1913 Webster] (b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. [1913 Webster]
- And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] (c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. --Judg. xvi. 25. [1913 Webster]
- Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix. 4. [1913 Webster]
- I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. (e) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. [1913 Webster]
- He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (f) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. (h) To put in a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. [1913 Webster]
- Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. [1913 Webster]
- Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex. ii. 14. [1913 Webster]
- See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. [1913 Webster]
- He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. --Baker. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted. [1913 Webster]
- I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv. 10. [1913 Webster]
- They should be made to rise at their early hour. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. [1913 Webster]
- And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham makes a hearty meal. [1913 Webster]
- The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. "And make the Libyan shores." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- To make a bed, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order.
- To make a card (Card Playing), to take a trick with it.
- To make account. See under Account, n.
- To make account of, to esteem; to regard.
- To make away. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. --Burton. [1913 Webster] (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller.
- To make believe, to pretend; to feign; to simulate.
- To make bold, to take the liberty; to venture.
- To make the cards (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack.
- To make choice of, to take by way of preference; to choose.
- To make danger, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
- To make default (Law), to fail to appear or answer.
- To make the doors, to shut the door. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To make free with. See under Free, a.
- To make good. See under Good.
- To make head, to make headway.
- To make light of. See under Light, a.
- To make little of. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily.
- To make love to. See under Love, n.
- To make meat, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.]
- To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial.
- To make much of, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly.
- To make no bones. See under Bone, n.
- To make no difference, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference.
- To make no doubt, to have no doubt.
- To make no matter, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference.
- To make oath (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law.
- To make of. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. "Makes she no more of me than of a slave." --Dryden.
- To make one's law (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge.
- To make out. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) to gain sight of; to recognize; to discern; to descry; as, as they approached the city, he could make out the tower of the Chrysler Building. (c) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (d) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. (d) to write out; to write down; -- used especially of a bank check or bill; as, he made out a check for the cost of the dinner; the workman made out a bill and handed it to him.
- To make over, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee.
- To make sail. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail.
- To make shift, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.].
- To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward.
- To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion.
- To make suit to, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court.
- To make sure. See under Sure.
- To make up. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. [1913 Webster]
- He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. [1913 Webster] (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up.
- To make up a face, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision.
- To make up one's mind, to reach a mental determination; to resolve.
- To make way, or To make one's way. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way.
- To make words, to multiply words. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'making'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accession,
- acquirement,
- acquisition,
- addition,
- anatomy,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- arrangement,
- assembly,
- attainment,
- batch,
- build,
- building,
- casting,
- coming by,
- composition,
- conformation,
- constitution,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cultivation,
- devising,
- dragging down,
- earnings,
- elaboration,
- erection,
- extraction,
- fabric,
- fabrication,
- fashion,
- fashioning,
- forging,
- form,
- format,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- frame,
- framing,
- gaining,
- getting,
- getting hold of,
- getup,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- lot,
- machining,
- make,
- makeup,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- mining,
- mold,
- molding,
- moneygetting,
- moneygrubbing,
- moneymaking,
- obtainment,
- obtention,
- organic structure,
- organism,
- organization,
- pattern,
- patterning,
- physique,
- plan,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- processing,
- procural,
- procurance,
- procuration,
- procurement,
- producing,
- production,
- raising,
- refining,
- run,
- securement,
- setup,
- shape,
- shaping,
- smelting,
- structure,
- structuring,
- tectonics,
- texture,
- tissue,
- trover,
- warp and woof,
- weave,
- web,
- winning,
- workmanship
Words containing 'Making'
- Make,
- Maked,
- On the make,
- To make as if,
- To make at,
- To make of,
- To make off,
- To make out,
- To make over,
- To make up,
- To make up for,
- To make up to,
- To make up with,
- To make with,
- make as if,
- make do,
- make for,
- make it,
- make off,
- make out,
- make over,
- make the most of,
- make up,
- make up to,
- makings,
- Glass making,
- Leasing making,
- Make and break,
- Making-up,
- To make a bed,
- To make a book,
- To make a card,
- To make a choice of,
- To make a circuit,
- To make a face,
- To make a fool of,
- To make a lip,
- To make a march,
- To make a move,
- To make a point,
- To make a point of,
- To make a stand,
- To make account,
- To make account of,
- To make as though,
- To make away,
- To make away with,
- To make believe,
- To make bold,
- To make book,
- To make choice of,
- To make conscience of,
- To make dainty,
- To make danger,
- To make default,
- To make fast,
- To make free with,
- To make friends with,
- To make fun of,
- To make game of,
- To make good,
- To make haste,
- To make head,
- To make head against,
- To make it strange,
- To make it tough,
- To make it wise,
- To make land,
- To make light of,
- To make little of,
- To make love,
- To make love to,
- To make meat,
- To make merry,
- To make mischief,
- To make money,
- To make much of,
- To make nice of,
- To make no bones,
- To make no difference,
- To make no doubt,
- To make no matter,
- To make nothing of,
- To make oath,
- To make pourparty,
- To make prize of,
- To make ready,
- To make room,
- To make sail,
- To make scruple,
- To make shift,
- To make ship,
- To make sternway,
- To make strange,
- To make suit to,
- To make sure,
- To make terms,
- To make the best of,
- To make the cards,
- To make the doors,
- To make time,
- To make up a face,
- To make use of,
- To make water,
- To make way,
- To make way with,
- To make words,
- To meddle and make,
- decision making,
- film making,
- lace making,
- make a deal,
- make a face,
- make a killing,
- make a motion,
- make a point,
- make a point of,
- make a show of,
- make a stink,
- make advances,
- make allowance for,
- make amends,
- make an example of,
- make an impression,
- make believe,
- make bold,
- make clean,
- make clear,
- make full,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- make good,
- make grow,
- make happy,
- make haste,
- make hay,
- make headway,
- make known,
- make light of,
- make love,
- make merry,
- make money,
- make no bones about,
- make noise,
- make nothing of,
- make pass,
- make peace,
- make plain,
- make possible,
- make pure,
- make relaxed,
- make reparation,
- make reparations,
- make sense,
- make sure,
- make the grade,
- make the scene,
- make unnecessary,
- make water,
- make way,
- make whoopie,
- make-do,
- make-up,
- making known,
- making love,
- making water,
- movie making,
- photoplate making,
- to make moot,
- wine making,
- Love-making,
- Make-believe,
- Make-game,
- Make-peace,
- Making-iron,
- Mischief-making,
- Money-making,
- To make a clean breast,
- To make a dead set,
- To make a good board,
- To make a matter of conscience,
- To make bad weather,
- To make both ends meet,
- To make common cause with,
- To make ducks and drakes,
- To make fair weather,
- To make foul water,
- To make good weather,
- To make one a compliment,
- To make one's compliments to,
- To make one's election,
- To make one's hand,
- To make one's law,
- To make one's manners,
- To make one's mark,
- To make one's peace with,
- To make one's way,
- To make short boards,
- To make the heart bleed,
- To make up one's mind,
- custom-make,
- epoch-making,
- film-make,
- make a clean breast of,
- make a federal case,
- make ends meet,
- make up one's mind,
- make vibrant sounds,
- make-belief,
- make-work,
- policy-making,
- tailor-make,
- To make a thing one's business,
- To make one's self at home,
- To make one's self scarce,
- To make one's self strange,
- To make one's self understood,
- To make the face to shine upon,
- non-profit-making,
- slave-making ant,
- nonprofit non-profit-making,
- The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed