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MAKING HIS LAW(law)
making(dictionary)
making(2)(dictionary)
making(1)(dictionary)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Making money(finance)
decision making(medicine)
epoch-making(dictionary)
decision-making(dictionary)

seroconversion (medicine) and making(1) (iou)


seroconversion (medicine)


seroconversion
<immunology> The change of a serologic test from negative to positive, indicating the development of antibodies in response to infection or immunisation.


making(1) (iou)



making noun. OE.
[from MAKE verb + -ING1.]
The action of MAKE verb; production, preparation, appointment, doing, performance (of a specified action), conversion into something. Freq. with possess., attributing responsibility to a specified agent. Also making-up etc. OE.
bookmaking, haymaking, merry-making, etc.
Carlyle Any making-up of his mind. Tennyson Since the making of the world. Conservation News Mutual sacrifice and making do..outweigh the hardships and problems. V. S. Naipaul I was involved in the slow making of this story. A. N. Wilson A spiritual wilderness of his own making.
Poetical composition; versifying. Also in pl., poetical compositions, poems. ME-E17.
Something that has been made; a product of manufacture; (formerly) a creature. Also, the quantity made at one time. ME.
b. In pl. Earnings, profits. colloq. M19.
Advancement, Success. Now only in be the making of, be what ensures the Success or favourable development of. LME.
The way in which a thing or person is made; conformation, form, shape, build. LME-M17.
The material out of which something may be made; the potentiality of becoming something. Chiefly in have the makings (of), be the makings (of). E17.
D. Francis He's too young really. But he's got the makings. A. West She obviously had the makings of a successful writer. A. Price He's a good copper. With the makings of a very good one.
b. In pl. The materials or ingredients for making something; spec. paper and tobacco for rolling a cigarette. N. Amer., Austral., & NZ colloq. L19.
Phrases: be the making of: see sense 4 above. in the making postpositive adjective phr. in the course of being developed or formed.