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maker
[ mey-ker ]
noun
- a person or thing that makes.
- a manufacturer (used in combination):
a drugmaker; a garmentmaker.
- (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who has the hobby of creating tangible physical products, especially do-it-yourself technology and engineering projects or handmade crafts (often used attributively): The maker movement fosters hands-on creativity in a sedentary world of passive entertainment options.
Makers came together at the convention to collaborate with each other and show off their completed products.
The maker movement fosters hands-on creativity in a sedentary world of passive entertainment options.
- (initial capital letter) God.
- the party executing a legal instrument, especially a promissory note.
- Cards. the player who first names the successful bid.
- Archaic. a poet.
maker
2/ ˈmeɪkə /
noun
- a person who makes (something); fabricator; constructor
- a person who executes a legal document, esp one who signs a promissory note
- archaic.a poet Also called (esp Scot)makar
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- pre·maker noun
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
- go to / meet one's Maker, to die.
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Example Sentences
A successful trend-maker might be able to steer a conversation, but virality remains extremely difficult to predict.
John B. Stetson was born in 1830 in New Jersey, the son of a hat maker.
Available at Anova Aeropress Coffee Espresso Maker, $26 Every year, there seems to be a new favorite coffee maker.
The two U.S. entities, along with the RDIF, last year acquired a majority interest in a leading Russian tire maker, Voltyre-Prom.
There have been many reactions to the digitization of our lives, like the resurgence of vinyl and the entire Maker movement.
The glorious sun was strong in his might, and, like his Maker, warmed the northern world into exuberant life.
It would not be fair to omit the name of the first mould-maker who made the tumbler-mould in question.
It is now about three centuries since there flourished at Cremona its first great violin maker.
Oats, Captain Trevithick's head boiler-maker, was constructing the boilers; Woolf came into the yard, and examined them.
In other respects Steiner at this period was a most careful maker, and his instruments show very fine finish and workmanship.
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