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making - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | making |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination |
| Synonyms: | building, composition, conception, construction, designing, fabrication, origination, performing, planning, producing, production, authoring, causation, constituting, contriving, devising, fancying, fashioning, forging, formulation, occasioning, shaping |
| Main Entry: | making |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | preparing |
| Synonyms: | building, manufacturing, originating, producing, accomplishing, composing, constructing, creating, effecting, executing, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, generating, shaping |
| Main Entry: | making |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | totaling |
| Synonyms: | producing, reckoning, adding up to, aggregating, completing, computing, concluding, consisting of, constituting, summing |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, build |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, adjust, arrange, assemble, beget, brew, bring about, cause, compose, conceive, constitute, construct, cook, cook up*, draw on, dream up, effect, engender, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, generate, hatch, initiate, invent, knock off*, manufacture, mold, occasion, originate, parent, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, secure, shape, spawn, synthesize, whip, dash off, get ready, give rise to, lead to, tear off, throw together, whip out |
| Antonyms: | crush, destroy, raze, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | induce, compel |
| Synonyms: | bring about, cause, coerce, constrain, drive, effect, force, horn in, impel, impress, initiate, interfere, meddle, oblige, press, require, secure, start, tamper, concuss, dragoon, pressurize, prevail upon, shotgun |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade, halt, prevent, stop |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | designate, appoint |
| Synonyms: | advance, assign, constitute, create, delegate, elect, finger, install, invest, name, nominate, ordain, proffer, select, tap, tender |
| Antonyms: | demote, renounce |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enact, execute |
| Synonyms: | act, carry on, carry out, conduct, declare, decree, do, draft, draw up, effect, establish, fix, form, formulate, frame, legislate, pass, perform, practice, prepare, prosecute, wage, carry through, engage in |
| Antonyms: | deny, disallow, refuse, refute, veto |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add up to; constitute |
| Synonyms: | amount to, compose, compound, comprise, construct, embody, equal, fabricate, form, make up, mix, organize, put together, represent, structure, synthesize, texture, come to |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate, infer |
| Synonyms: | calculate, collect, conclude, deduce, deduct, derive, draw, figure, gather, gauge, judge, reckon, suppose, think, dope out |
| Antonyms: | calculate, measure |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | earn, acquire |
| Synonyms: | bring in, clear, gain, get, harvest, hustle, net, obtain, pull, pull down*, rate, realize, reap, receive, secure, sock*, take in, bring home bacon, clean up* |
| Antonyms: | lose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrive, aim at |
| Synonyms: | advance, attain, bear, catch, go, head, light out, meet, move, proceed, progress, reach, strike out, take off, arrive at, arrive in time, break for, get to, set out |
| Antonyms: | fail |
| Main Entry: | component |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part, element |
| Synonyms: | constituent, factor, fixings, ingredient, item, making, peripheral, piece, segment, unit, makings, plug-in |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | ingredient |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | component of concoction |
| Synonyms: | additive, constituent, element, factor, fixing, fundamental, innards, integral, making, part, part and parcel, piece, integrant |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | manufacture/manufacturing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | production of processed goods |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, assembly, completion, composition, construction, creation, doing, fabrication, formation, making, preparing, produce, assembling, casting, composing, erection, finishing, forging, mass-production, tooling |
| Main Entry: | output |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something produced |
| Synonyms: | achievement, amount, crop, gain, harvest, making, manufacture, manufacturing, producing, product, production, productivity, profit, take, turnout, yield |
| Antonyms: | input |
| Main Entry: | production |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creating of goods, result |
| Synonyms: | assembly, bearing, blossoming, construction, creation, direction, fabrication, generation, giving, making, management, manufacture, manufacturing, origination, preparation, presentation, producing, provision, reproduction, return, yielding, authoring, elongation, engendering, extention, formulation, fructification, lengthening, prolongation, protraction, rendering, staging |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | manufacturing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | production |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, assembly, completion, composition, construction, creation, doing, fabrication, formation, making, manufacture, preparing, produce, assembling, casting, composing, erection, finishing, forging, mass-production, tooling |
| Main Entry: | receiving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taking |
| Synonyms: | drawing, gathering, getting, making, accepting, acquiring, bringing in, collecting, earning, inheriting |
| Antonyms: | giving, awarding, disbursing |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, building |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, assembly, build, cast, composition, conception, constitution, contour, cut, development, disposition, edifice, elevation, fabric, fabrication, figuration, figure, form, format, formation, foundation, improvisation, invention, makeup, making, manufacture, mold, origination, outline, plan, planning, shape, structure, system, turn, type, erecting, erection, fabricating, prefab, prefabrication, putting up, raising, rearing, roadwork, systematization |
| Antonyms: | destruction, disorganization, ruin, ruins, disfigurement |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, making, origination, procreation, production, formulation, laying down, nascency, nativity, setting up, siring |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
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