MAKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Makin mean? 

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

1. battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Makin; Tarawa; Tarawa-Makin

Instance hypernyms:

amphibious assault (an amphibious operation attacking a land base that is carried out by troops that are landed by naval ships)

Domain region:

Gilbert Islands (a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979)

Holonyms ("Makin" is a part of...):

Second World War; World War 2; World War II (a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945)

 Context examples 

"I thought you understood," he said slowly. "I thought you'd tumbled to it from his makin' up to me. He's my dog. His name ain't Wolf. It's Brown."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"You mean makin' b'lieve you don't care about them?" Jim queried eagerly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was makin' up a litter in the monkey-house for a young puma which is ill; but when I heard the yelpin' and 'owlin'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Makin' free to spit out what's in me," Matt said one day, "I beg to state that you was a wise guy all right when you paid the price you did for that dog. You clean swindled Beauty Smith on top of pushin' his face in with your fist."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You can never guess the ways iv him. ’Tis just as you’re thinkin’ you know him and are makin’ a favourable slant along him, that he whirls around, dead ahead and comes howlin’ down upon you and a-rippin’ all iv your fine-weather sails to rags.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Makin' dates outside, eh?" his brother-in-law sneered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We aud folks that be daffled, and with one foot abaft the krok-hooal, don't altogether like to think of it, and we don't want to feel scart of it; an' that's why I've took to makin' light of it, so that I'd cheer up my own heart a bit.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"You remember the other time I was here I said I couldn't talk about books an' things because I didn't know how? Well, I've ben doin' a lot of thinkin' ever since. I've ben to the library a whole lot, but most of the books I've tackled have ben over my head. Mebbe I'd better begin at the beginnin'. I ain't never had no advantages. I've worked pretty hard ever since I was a kid, an' since I've ben to the library, lookin' with new eyes at books—an' lookin' at new books, too—I've just about concluded that I ain't ben reading the right kind. You know the books you find in cattle- camps an' fo'c's'ls ain't the same you've got in this house, for instance. Well, that's the sort of readin' matter I've ben accustomed to. And yet—an' I ain't just makin' a brag of it—I've ben different from the people I've herded with. Not that I'm any better than the sailors an' cow-punchers I travelled with,—I was cow-punchin' for a short time, you know,—but I always liked books, read everything I could lay hands on, an'—well, I guess I think differently from most of 'em.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)