making
n.
act of one who makes; something made, something manufactured; process of manufacturing; means by which success is achieved
make
v.
construct from separate pieces; manufacture; cause to be; force; appoint; amount to; prepare; do; earn; perform; arrange; arrive in time; reach; become; estimate, judge; go in a certain direction
Make
Make (magazine)
making (de)
n.
making
Making
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Make
(n.)
The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.
(n.)
That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.
(n.)
External appearance; from.
(n.)
Composition, or structure.
(n.)
a poem.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Make
<
programming,
tool> The
Unix tool to automate the recompilation, linking etc. of programs, taking account of the interdependencies of
modules and their modification times. Make reads instructions from a "makefile" which specifies a set of targets to be built, the files they depend on and the commands to execute in order to produce them.
Most
C systems come with a make. There is also one produce by
GNU.
["Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs", A.I. Feldman, TR No 57, Bell Labs Apr 1977].
(1995-01-05)
(c) Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe