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MAKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A business engaged in manufacturing some product
Synonyms:
maker; manufacturer; manufacturing business
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("maker" is a kind of...):
business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maker"):
armorer; armourer (a manufacturer of firearms)
bottler (a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages)
auto maker; auto manufacturer; automaker; car maker; car manufacturer; carmaker (a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles)
computer business (a business that manufactures and sells computers)
Derivation:
make (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
Synonyms:
Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
God; Supreme Being (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Maker"):
Blessed Trinity; Holy Trinity; Sacred Trinity; Trinity (the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead)
hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ (any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who makes things
Synonyms:
maker; shaper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("maker" is a kind of...):
creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maker"):
patternmaker (someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking))
perfumer (a person who makes (and sells) perfumes)
piano maker (a person who makes pianos)
saddler (a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses)
sailmaker (a maker of sails)
shirtmaker (a maker of shirts)
spinner; spinster; thread maker (someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads))
steelmaker; steelman; steelworker (a worker engaged in making steel)
tentmaker (someone who makes or repairs tents)
toolmaker (someone skilled in making or repairing tools)
vintner; wine maker; winemaker (someone who makes wine)
violin maker (someone who makes violins)
horologer; horologist; watchmaker (someone who makes or repairs watches)
wigmaker (someone who makes and sells wigs)
needleworker (someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle)
manufacturer; producer (someone who manufactures something)
maltman; maltster (a maker of malt)
jeweler; jeweller; jewelry maker (someone who makes jewelry)
ironworker (a person who makes articles of iron)
hatmaker; hatter; milliner; modiste (someone who makes and sells hats)
glassmaker (someone who makes glass)
author; generator; source (someone who originates or causes or initiates something)
candymaker; confectioner (someone who makes candies and other sweets)
cobbler; shoemaker (a person who makes or repairs shoes)
chandler (a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints)
beer maker; brewer (someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water)
bookmaker (a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books)
belt maker (a maker of belts)
basketmaker; basketweaver (someone skilled in weaving baskets)
Instance hyponyms:
Adolphe Sax; Sax (a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894))
Derivation:
make (create or manufacture a man-made product)
make (make by combining materials and parts)
Context examples:
EXAMPLE(S): healthcare provider, adjudication committee, family member, radiologist, vendor (may provide a uniform assessment for all sites participating in a study), heart rate monitor, pace maker.
(Evaluator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Given the name Nemesis, this theoretical trouble maker has been proposed as a reason behind an apparent 27-million-year cycle of extinctions on Earth, including the one that saw off most of the dinosaurs.
(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It provides policy-oriented solutions for decision-makers in taking adaptation and mitigation actions.
(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)
The technology has the support of Japanese car maker Toyota and South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company.
(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)
His deliberate aim in life seemed to be that of a maker of laughter.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was the maker of the track, a large female lynx.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
For information to be useful, not only does it need to be made available at the right time to those who need it such as policy makers, program planners, and health professionals, and patients but it has to be in the right form.
(Information Dissemination, NCI Thesaurus)
Driven primarily by voltage-gated Ca+2 action potentials originating in sinoatrial pace-maker cells, Cardiac Muscle Contraction involves shortening of the gap junction-linked nonsyncytial striated heart myocytes in the atrial and ventricular chambers that forces movement of the blood through the circulatory system.
(Cardiac Muscle Contraction, NCI Thesaurus)
But he, on the other hand, a wit in his own class, a gay quizzer and laughter-maker at dances and Sunday picnics, had found the making of fun and the breaking of good- natured lances simple enough in this environment.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
