MAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does MAK mean? 

• MAK (noun)
  The noun MAK has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda

  Familiarity information: MAK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

MAK; Maktab al-Khidmat

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

 Context examples 

P38 MAK is involved in regulation of Hsp27 and MAPKAP-2 and several transcription factors including ATF2, STAT1, Max/Myc complex, MEF-2, ELK-1, and indirectly CREB via activation of MSK1.

(p38 MAPK Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes MAPK/MAK/MRK overlapping kinase protein, is involved in the induction of intracellular oxidative stress and a pro-inflammatory status in response to activation by advanced glycation end products.

(MOK wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

There was nothing like them in these parts, nor ever had been; they had liked learning, all three, almost from the time they could speak; and they had always been "of a mak' of their own."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mak' 'em into pies.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)