Word Meanings - SIGNIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.

• Make-up
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
• Signify
  To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• KNOWNOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The party originat
• KNOWNOTHINGISM
  The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.
• Makable
  Capable of being made.
• Making-iron
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Makaron
  See Macaroon, 2.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• MAKEBELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
• Othergates
  In another manner.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.

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