Making
['meɪkɪŋ] or ['mekɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something; 'the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Make
(n.) 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.
(n.) Composition, or structure.
(n.) a poem.
(n.) 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.
(n.) External appearance; from.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
Composition, constitution, formation.
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Examples
- Won't you say yes--I will devote my life to making you very happy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A constitution of the Japanese type came into existence in 1909, making China a limited monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The stranger insisted on making Mr. Godfrey precede him; Mr. Godfrey said a few civil words; they bowed, and parted in the street. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He's good enough for the occasion: when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man--they only want a vote. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I think it would be advisable in making the change to leave Hancock where he is until Warren passes him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Presently, without preface or prelude, she said, almost in the tone of one making an accusation, Meess, in England you were a governess? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Peruvians also got to making maps and the use of counting-frames. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- See him busied at the work he likes best--making marriages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I can do dress-making very well; and I understand fine washing and ironing; and between us we can find something to live on. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Sherman paid no attention at all to the overture, but pushed forward and took the town without making any conditions whatever with its citizens. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is a poor form of social service that would exhaust the resources of science and philanthropy to care for the former without making any special provision fo r the latter. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They teach at one time that men act from class interests: but they devote an enormous amount of energy to making men conscious of their class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Poririer, a Frenchman, invented a machine for making match boxes of pasteboard. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Thou and thy vagabonds shall crown the wedding with thy merry-makings. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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