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makingnoun often makings pl.the basic elements from which something can be developedshe has all the makings of an excellent leader, but she needs some experience first material, raw material, stuff, substance, timber possibility, potential, potentialitymatter, metal to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materialswill you help me make the dough for the cookies? fabricating, fashioning, forming, framing, manufacturing, producing assembling, building, constructing, erecting, making up, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up, structuring, throwing upcrafting, handcraftinghewingforging, molding, shapingcobbling (together or up), knocking out, patching (together), throwing upprefabricatingcreating, inventing, minting, originatingestablishing, fathering, instituting, organizingconcocting, contriving, cooking (up), designing, devising, imagining, thinking (up)conceiving, envisaging, picturing, visualizingrefashioning, remaking, remanufacturing putting together disassembling, dismantling, taking apartbreaking up, dismemberingabolishing, annihilating, demolishing, destroying, devastating, eradicating, exterminating, extinguishing, flattening, pulverizing, razing, ruining, shattering, smashing, wreckingblowing up, exploding to obtain (as a goal) through effortwe finally made it! achieving, attaining, bagging, chalking up, clocking (up)(chiefly British), gaining, hitting, logging, notching (up), racking up, ringing up, scoring, winning acquiring, capturing, carrying, drawing, garnering, getting, landing, obtaining, procuring, realizing, securingamounting (to), approaching, equaling(or equalling), matching, measuring up (to), meeting, rivaling(or rivalling), touching, tying(or tieing)beating, excelling, outdoing, surpassing, topping falling short (of), missingfailing (at)losing to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over begetting, breeding, bringing, bringing about, bringing on, catalyzing, causing, creating, doing, drawing on, effecting, effectuating, engendering, generating, inducing, invoking, occasioning, producing, prompting, resulting (in), spawning, translating (into), working, yielding conducing (to), contributing (to)deciding, determiningbeginning, establishing, fathering, founding, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, instituting, introducing, launching, pioneering, setting, setting up, startingadvancing, cultivating, developing, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promotingenacting, rendering, turning out bringing forth, giving rise to impeding, limiting, restrictingclamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, dampening, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressingarresting, checking, controlling, curbing, inhibiting, reining (in), restraining, retardingcanning(slang), killing, snuffing (out), stillingabolishing, demolishing, destroying, extinguishing, liquidating, quenching to carry through (as a process) to completionone person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting accomplishing, achieving, bringing off, carrying off, carrying out, committing, compassing, doing, executing, following through (with), fulfilling, negotiating, performing, perpetrating, prosecuting, pulling off, putting through bringing about, effecting, effectuating, implementingacing, nailingengaging (in), practicing(also practising)working (at)reduplicating, reenacting, repeatingactualizing, attaining, realizingcompleting, ending, finishing, winding up going through failingskimping, slighting, slurring to cause (a person) to give in to pressuremade him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around blackjacking, coercing, compelling, constraining, dragooning, driving, forcing, impelling, impressing, muscling, obligating, obliging, pressing, pressuring, sandbagging browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cowing, hectoring, intimidatingblackmailing, high-pressuring, menacing, shaming, terrorizing, threateningdraggingbadgering, harassing, hounding twisting one's arm allowing, letting, permittingarguing, convincing, inducing, moving, persuading, prevailing (on or upon), satisfying, talking (into), winning (over) to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurementI make that to be about six feet long calculating, calling, conjecturing, estimating, figuring, gauging(also gaging), guessing, judging, placing, putting, reckoning, supposing concluding, deducing, extrapolating, gathering, inferring, reasoning, understanding calibrating, measuring, scalingcomputing, working out to form by putting together parts or materialsmake a model airplane assembling, building, confecting, constructing, erecting, fabricating, making up, piecing, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up carpentering, fashioning, forging, framing, hammering, handcrafting, manufacturing, molding, producing, shapingprefabricatingbeginning, coining, creating, generating, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, inventing, originatingconstituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizingconceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), designing, devising, imagining, thinking (up)reassembling, rebuilding, reconstructing, redeveloping, reedifying(British), retrofittingjerry-building, rigging (up), throwing upcombining, uniting putting together demounting, disassembling, dismantling, dismembering, knocking down, striking, taking down, tearing down demolishing, destroying, devastating, flattening, leveling(or levelling), pulling down, pulverizing, razing, ruinating, ruining, shattering, smashing, wreckingblowing up, explodingdetaching, disengagingdisconnecting, disjoining, disuniting, dividing, separating to give the impression of beingthe family made merry despite their financial worries acting, appearing, coming across (as), coming off (as), feeling, looking, seeming, sounding dissembling, pretendingrecalling, resembling, suggestinghinting, implying, insinuating to go on a specified course or in a certain directionthe baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug bearing, heading aiming, bending, directing, pointing, turningbeelining, lighting out, putting, putting out, setting off, setting out, striking, taking offfacing, orienting, steeringabout-facing, backing, coming about, coming round, cutting, inclining, putting about, reversing, swerving, tacking, turning back, veering, wheeling, yawing to put into effect through legislative or authoritative actionthe legislature failed to make any new laws last session constituting, enacting, laying down, legislating, ordaining, passing reenacting, repassingbringing about, effectingallowing, authorizing, permitting, sanctioningdecreeing, dictating, proclaimingadministering, executingapproving, confirming, ratifying repealing, rescinding, revoking abolishing, abrogating, annulling, canceling(or cancelling), invalidating, killing, nullifyingoverturning, reversing, voiding to receive as return for effortI make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here acquiring, attaining, bagging, bringing in, capturing, carrying, coming by, drawing, earning, gaining, garnering, getting, knocking down, landing, obtaining, procuring, pulling down, realizing, reaping, securing, winning clearing, grossing, nettingaccomplishing, achieving, notching (up), scoringaccumulating, amassing, drawing, racking upcatching, picking upannexing, occupying, taking overreacquiring, reattaining, recapturing, regaining, remaking forfeiting, losing according, giving, granting, payinggiving up, handing over, parting (with), relinquishing, surrendering, yielding to have a clear idea ofwhat do you make of the latest information? appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching, catching on (to), cognizing, compassing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, discerning, getting, grasping, grokking, intuiting, knowing, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, seizing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging, understanding absorbing, digesting, taking inrealizingfathoming, penetrating, piercing picking up on missing misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misinterpreting, misperceiving, misreading, mistaking, misunderstanding chiefly dialectto position (something) so as to prevent passage through an openingmake the gate when ye leave closing, shutting, steeking(chiefly Scottish) barring, battening (down), bolting, chaining, fastening, latching, lockingplugging, sealing, stopperingsecuringbanging, clapping, slamming opening unbarring, unbolting, unchaining, unfastening, unlatching, unlocking, unsealing in the 12th century |