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# maker

«maker» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person, company or machine that makes something, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (maker, makers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A maker is a person, company or machine that makes something, like a toy maker or a coffee maker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#m1)

2) A maker is also a person who likes building and inventing things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a person or machine that makes things at a rate (a toy maker makes 8 toys an hour): total = rate × time; two makers together make the sum of their rates. In design and technology: makers build, test and improve. Everyday life: an ice maker, a bread maker, a coffee maker. Phrases: toy maker, cake maker, film maker, peacemaker, troublemaker, decision maker.

### examples

- A toy maker makes 8 toys an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x1)
- The ice maker makes 24 cubes each time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x2)
- Each cake maker bakes 5 cakes a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x3)
- A coffee maker costs $40. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x4)
- Dad turned on the coffee maker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x5)
- The violin maker carved the wood by hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x6)
- A troublemaker is someone who causes trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x7)
- At the makers' fair children showed robots they built. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x8)
- Vans was a giant, and a bottle-maker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/#x9)

### note

Often joined to another word: troublemaker, peacemaker, filmmaker. Makers often come with a rate: total = rate × time. Trap: two makers together make the sum of their rates.

### In the corpora

- [Until the film makers announce it, who plays James Bond is only guessing by fans and betting sites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/19/)
- [Ratings are decided by trained examiners who follow published rules, not by the film makers, and not by guessing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/17/)
- [A royalty is money paid to music makers when their work is used.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/8/)
- [The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in which the film makers pushed lemmings over a cliff.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/8/)
- [Animal myths travel the same way, from storytellers to cartoon makers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «maker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.