a mischief mischief-making mischievousness deviltry devilry devilment rascality roguery roguishness shenanigan ddd | reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others |
sexual love lovemaking making love love love life | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people, his lovemaking disgusted her, he hadn't had any love in months, he has a very complicated love life |
lace making tatting | the act or art of making handmade lace |
devising fashioning making | the act that results in something coming to be, the devising of plans, the fashioning of pots and pans, the making of measurements, it was already in the making |
moviemaking movie making film making | the production of movies |
winemaking wine making | the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine |
slave-making ant slave-maker | an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants |
making | (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something, the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake |
qualification making | an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something, her qualifications for the job are excellent, one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree, she has the makings of fine musician |
randomness haphazardness stochasticity noise | the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan |
noise | incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks, all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say |
noise level background level | the amplitude level of the undesired background noise |
noise dissonance racket | the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality, sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience, modern music is just noise to me |
decision making deciding | the cognitive process of reaching a decision, a good executive must be good at decision making |
noise | a loud outcry of protest or complaint, the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise, whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could |
informing making known | a speech act that conveys information |
noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound), he enjoyed the street noises, they heard indistinct noises of people talking, during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached decibels |
noise interference disturbance | electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication |
background noise ground noise | extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal |
surface noise | noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record |
white noise | a noise produced by a stimulus containing all of the audible frequencies of vibration, white noise is a good masking agent |
radio noise | static at radio wavelengths |
leak wetting making water passing water | a euphemism for urination, he had to take a leak |
photomechanics photoplate making | the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods, photomechanics revolutionized the practice of printing |
signal-to-noise ratio signal-to-noise signal noise ratio signal noise S N | the ratio of signal intensity to noise intensity |
noise conditions | the condition of being noisy (as in a communication channel) |
noise pollution sound pollution | annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise |
make noise resound noise | emit a noise |
nonprofit non-profit-making | not commercially motivated |
policy-making | concerned with policy, not administration |
epochal epoch-making | highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era, epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill, an epoch-making discovery |