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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: make - maladive</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="makeable"> makeable, adjective. =makable.</DL> <A NAME="makebate"> makebate or makebait, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a person or thing that causes great trouble, leads to fighting, or the like. </DL> <A NAME="makebelieve"> make-believe, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. pretense. Ex. Fairies live in the land of make-believe. His friendships with important people are all make-believe. <DD> 2. a person who pretends; pretender. <DD>adj. pretended; imaginary. Ex. Children often have make-believe playmates. </DL> <A NAME="makedo"> make-do, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a temporary substitute, usually of an inferior kind. <DD>adj. used as a make-do; characterized by makeshift methods. Ex. When ... prices steadily mounted to their peak, thousands of careful housewives adopted ... a make-do policy (London Daily Mail). </DL> <A NAME="makefast"> makefast, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a buoy, piling, or other mooring, to which a ship can be tied. </DL> <A NAME="makeorbreak"> make-or-break, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be either a complete success or a complete failure. Ex. a make-or-break year for the British economy (Manchester Guardian Weekly). </DL> <A NAME="makepeace"> make-peace, noun. =peacemaker.</DL> <A NAME="maker"> maker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person or thing that makes; manufacturer. Ex. Who was the maker of this stove? <DD> 2. (Law.) a person who signs a promissory note or other document. Ex. The maker should have a lawyer examine any document that he does not completely understand (Robert W. Merry). <DD> 3. the player who first names the trump in card games; declarer. <DD> 4. (Archaic.) a poet. </DL> <A NAME="maker"> Maker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> God. Ex. And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,--Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). expr. gone to (meet or join) one's Maker, dead. Ex. The old man has gone to his Maker. </DL> <A NAME="makeready"> makeready or make-ready, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the preparation of a form for printing by leveling the type or plates with underlays or overlays to insure an even impression or arranging negatives of film for making plates. <DD> 2. the underlays or overlays used. </DL> <A NAME="makerup"> maker-up, noun, pl. makers-up.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (British.) a maker or manufacturer of garments. <DD> 2. a person who makes up type, pictures, or film for printing. </DL> <A NAME="makeshift"> makeshift, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun something made to use for a time instead of the right thing; temporary substitute. Ex. When the electric lights went out, we used candles as a makeshift. Spools and buttons were the child's makeshifts for toys. <DD>adj. 1. used for a time instead of the right thing. Ex. drowsing in the scant shade of makeshift awnings (Mark Twain). <DD> 2. characterized by makeshifts. Ex. makeshift endeavors. </DL> <A NAME="makeshifty"> makeshifty, adjective. =makeshift.</DL> <A NAME="makest"> makest, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> archaic form of the second person singular of make. </DL> <A NAME="maketh"> maketh, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) makes. </DL> <A NAME="makeup"> makeup or make-up, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the way in which a thing is made up or put together. Ex. The novelty of the orchestra's size and makeup ... (Maclean's). (SYN) composition, constitution. <DD> 2. nature; disposition. Ex. People of a nervous makeup are excitable. <DD> 3a. the way in which an actor is dressed and painted in order to look his part. <DD> b. the clothes, cosmetics, wigs, or other costume used by an actor to look his part. <DD> 4. rouge, lipstick, powder, cream, or other preparation to adorn the face; cosmetics. Ex. When you have plenty of makeup on, you always get served faster (New Yorker). <DD> 5a. the arrangement of type, pictures, and illustrations in a book, paper, or magazine. <DD> b. the result of this. Ex. That book has good makeup. <DD> 6. an examination, course, or procedure, taken to make up for having missed or failed a previous one. Ex. Make-up injections will be given to another 300 children at the health center (New York Times). <DD> 7. a person who makes up pages of type; compositor. </DL> <A NAME="makeup"> makeup or make-up man,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a man whose business is making up actors and actresses or other people appearing before an audience. <DD> 2. a man who arranges type, pictures, and illustrations in a book, paper, or magazine. </DL> <A NAME="makeweight"> makeweight, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. anything added to make up for some lack. Ex. Even a "good" Budget next month may prove no more than a temporary makeweight (Sunday Times). (SYN) offset. <DD> 2. something put on a scale to complete a required weight; counterpoise. </DL> <A NAME="makework"> make-work, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun (U.S.) 1. the contriving of unnecessary activity; featherbedding. <DD> 2. the providing of work for unemployed people. <DD>adj. 1. of or used for unnecessary work. <DD> 2. devised to make jobs. Ex. Top Administration planners view a huge make-work program as the last ditch move to perk up the economy (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="makimono"> makimono, noun, pl. -nos.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Japanese picture or writing on silk, paper, or other material that is kept rolled up, and not suspended as a kakemono. </DL> <A NAME="making"> making, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the cause of a person's success; means of advancement. Ex. Early hardships were the making of him. <DD> 2. Often, makings. the material needed. <DD> 3. the qualities needed. Ex. I see in him the making of a hero. <DD> 4. something made. <DD> 5. the amount made at one time. expr. in the making, in the process of being made; not fully developed. Ex. Our plans are still in the making. expr. makings, (U.S. Slang.) paper and tobacco for rolling cigarettes. Ex. He had the makings for a whole pack. </DL> <A NAME="mako"> mako, noun, pl. -kos. =mako shark.</DL> <A NAME="makoshark"> mako shark,<DL COMPACT><DD> a shark of warm waters that reaches a length of 12 feet and is highly regarded as a game fish. </DL> <A NAME="makuta"> makuta, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of likuta. </DL> <A NAME="mal"> mal-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) bad or badly; poor or poorly; unlawful; not ______. Ex. Malodorous = smelling bad. Maladjusted = badly adjusted. Malnutrition = poor nutrition. Malcontent = not content. <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, male-. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="mal"> Mal.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. Malachi (book of the Old Testament). <DD> 2. Malayan. </DL> <A NAME="malabsorption"> malabsorption, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) poor or abnormal absorption of food by the body. Ex. malabsorption of carbohydrates. </DL> <A NAME="malaccacane"> Malacca cane,<DL COMPACT><DD> a light walking stick made of the stem of an East Indian rattan palm. </DL> <A NAME="malaccapern"> Malacca pern,<DL COMPACT><DD> a pern of the East Indies that hunts at dusk and can catch a bat on the wing. </DL> <A NAME="malaceous"> malaceous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or belonging to a group of plants now generally classified with the rose family, as the apple and pear. </DL> <A NAME="malachi"> Malachi, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a Hebrew prophet who lived about 450 B.C. He was the last of the Minor Prophets. <DD> 2. the last book of the Old Testament, attributed to him. (Abbr:) Mal. </DL> <A NAME="malachias"> Malachias, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Malachi in the Douay Bible. </DL> <A NAME="malachite"> malachite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a green mineral that is an ore of copper and is used for ornamental articles. It is a basic carbonate of copper. </DL> <A NAME="malacological"> malacological, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with malacology. </DL> <A NAME="malacologist"> malacologist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in malacology. </DL> <A NAME="malacology"> malacology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of zoology that deals with mollusks. </DL> <A NAME="malacopterygian"> malacopterygian, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes, in older classifications. </DL> <A NAME="malacostracan"> malacostracan, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with a subclass of crustaceans usually having many appendages on the thorax and abdomen. Lobsters, crabs, and shrimps belong to this subclass. <DD>noun a malacostracan crustacean. </DL> <A NAME="malacostracous"> malacostracous, adjective. =malacostracan.</DL> <A NAME="maladaptation"> maladaptation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> poor adaptation; lack of adaptation. Ex. But there is a direct maladaptation between our inherited nature and culture that brings social disorganization (Ogburn and Nimkoff). </DL> <A NAME="maladapted"> maladapted, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =maladjusted. Ex. ... the "maladapted" delinquent (Listener). <DD> 2. poorly adapted; ill-suited. Ex. work maladapted to the assembly line. </DL> <A NAME="maladaptive"> maladaptive, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> poorly adapting; exhibiting maladaptation. Ex. a maladaptive response to stress. </DL> <A NAME="maladive"> maladive, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or affected with sickness; sickly. Ex. The magnificent Prescott [a singer] is nearly overgrown by a chorus of maladive voices, like a tree engulfed by poison ivy (New Yorker). </DL> <A HREF="maladjus.dic">NEXT</A>