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devising
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun devising has 1 sense
- devising(n = noun.act) 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" is a kind of production
has particulars: cartography, mapmaking, film making, movie making, moviemaking
Derived forms verb devise1, verb devise2
THESAURUS
devising
architecture, assembly, authorship, beginning, building, casting, coinage, composition, conception, concoction, construction, contrivance, contriving, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, creative effort, cultivation, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, generation, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hatching, improvisation, invention, machining, making, making do, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mintage, molding, origination, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, refining, shaping, smelting, workmanship
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