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makeshift [meyk-shift]

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Main Entry:	makeshift [meyk-shift] Show IPA/ˈmeɪkˌʃɪft/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	temporary
Synonyms:	Band-Aid, alternative, expedient, hit-or-miss, make-do, provisional, quick-and-dirty, slapdash, stopgap, substitute, temp, throwaway
Antonyms:	complete, finished, permanent, ready

Main Entry:	alternate
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	substitute
Synonyms:	alternative, another, backup, different, interchanging, makeshift, second, surrogate, temporary
Notes:	alternate means 'one after the other' or 'each succeeding the other in turn, especially continuously' and alternative means 'one instead of the other' or 'allowing or necessitating a choice between two or more things'
Antonyms:	necessary

Main Entry:	crude
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	unrefined, natural
Synonyms:	amateurish, callow, coarse, green, harsh, homemade, homespun, immature, impure, in the rough, inexpert, makeshift, outline, prentice, primitive, raw, rough, rough-hewn, rude, rudimentary, rustic, simple, sketchy, thick, undeveloped, unfinished, unformed, ungraded, unmatured, unmilled, unpolished, unprepared, unprocessed, unproficient, unsorted, untaught, untrained, unworked, unwrought
Antonyms:	formal, planned, refined, sophisticated, stilted

Example Sentences

When she slid off the makeshift surgical table, she saw bright red drops of blood staining the white sheet.

The top of a covered trash can and the cover of the cat litter box serve as makeshift desks.

Hundreds of thousands are living in makeshift camps.

When she slid off the makeshift surgical table, she saw bright red drops of blood staining the white sheet.

The top of a covered trash can and the cover of the cat litter box serve as makeshift desks.

Hundreds of thousands are living in makeshift camps.

Using a piece of vegetation as a makeshift pillow, a pair of elephant seals cuddle on the beach.

Drivers and cars get ready to rumble in makeshift service pits.

The only people in imminent danger are the guys standing around the makeshift launchpad.

Injured protesters were treated at a makeshift clinic in a mosque.

Spouse uses this makeshift neti pot regularly, but does not experience these watery effects.

Sports stadiums, disused factories and city parks all became makeshift homes for refugees.

Families build makeshift huts, or sukkah, with roofs open to the sky.

He set up a makeshift studio in an empty storefront across the street from where he lived.

They tipped the beds over in one of their hotel rooms and converted the place into a makeshift repair shop.

The rebels responded by firing nearly a dozen of the makeshift mortars.

Armoured columns rolled over makeshift barricades and the people who had erected them.

Ruoppolo had nearly finished building a makeshift field hospital.

Use a makeshift grill over the electic grill or heated skillet.

Hundreds of thousands are living in makeshift shelters.

Russian forces hauled off her brother and held him at a grim makeshift jail for five months.

Many refugees are sheltering under makeshift tarpaulin structures.

Hundreds of thousands of survivors are refugees, squatting in makeshift camps wherever you go.

There was a makeshift shower rigged up on the other side of the building.

Now the ajq'ij laid out the offerings to the ancestors on his makeshift altar.

Four others were inside their makeshift hut, either asleep or preparing a simple meal.

Time is ticking as the crew gathers wood to build makeshift walkways that will be used to cross over the mucky marsh.

They smashed rooms in the compound with makeshift weapons, and several detainees and security guards were injured.

Kids sit on ladders topped with makeshift highchairs, the better for their little hands to snag trinkets.

There were trams, orderly queues, makeshift picture houses and smoking factory chimneys.

Russian forces hauled off her brother and held him at a grim makeshift jail for ?ve months.

Another is of the dead and critically injured in houses serving as makeshift hospitals.

Soccer fields, for example, are crammed with people in makeshift camps.

There are also hundreds of youngsters with little to do and only a makeshift school.

Once again the lions jammed their paws through the makeshift wall, trying to get inside.

Some doctors arranged makeshift surgeries in private homes.

Sluices and valves govern the flow of liquid and makeshift meters record the water-levels.

And crude machines are replacing bare feet as macerators, while washing machines are being used as makeshift centrifuges.

In their makeshift new homes, the refugees face grim conditions and resentment from the local poor.

All but one of the deaths were the result of makeshift bombs, which insurgents have been employing with greater lethality.

Long lines of students snaked past makeshift admissions and financial-aid stations separated by curtains in a converted ballroom.

Makeshift cookers also catch fire easily, maiming and killing.

Staying in a makeshift police station at the northeastern end of.

One pointed toward a tiny makeshift shrine of flickering candles and.

Twenty-five or so people were scaling a makeshift ladder, trying to clamber aboard.

IV drips hung from makeshift poles and patients moaned as if they were recovering from a delirium.

He ran up and down the sidewalk on his block and shot baskets with friends on a makeshift court across the street.

Flap your makeshift wooden wings to get more height, but your flaps are limited.

And there are some bitter contests on the makeshift baseball diamonds, where bullets as well as baseballs fly through the air.

Mooney's expectation of privacy in their makeshift homes is illegitimate is to conclude that only propertied.

They are camped out, roasting pigs and chickens in makeshift earth ovens and drinking kava.

And the tool gun can do anything from constructing makeshift vehicles to make your characters make faces at each other.

The police said he stole a service revolver from a police locker room used as a makeshift holding cell.

He rigged up strobe lights and makeshift black backdrops of paint, plywood, and paper.

As such, you're able to use the phone as makeshift computer.

Cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags function as makeshift sinks where women wash clothes.

Downstairs, the reception area is lined with battered folding chairs occupied by patients with makeshift bandages or open wounds.

Thousands continue to live in makeshift camps near the border with.

Pygmies play a variety of makeshift instruments but above all they sing.

Desks, tables and bathtubs all make excellent makeshift forts.

Montoya conducted practice runs with his makeshift torpedo in desolate local rivers and videotaped the launches.

There more business is done on regional and global energy markets than in makeshift market stalls.

Removing the makeshift bandage may reopen the wound.

He showed up at the games incognito and stayed in makeshift barracks.

The back of the truck had been outfitted with a makeshift bed.

To stroll here in the mists of early morning is to navigate an obstacle course of makeshift beds and sleeping children.

His creation had a small black frame with wheels, a makeshift circuit board, and a pincer claw.

Army officials have blamed such incidents on impostors dressed in makeshift fatigues.

Aluminum siding became makeshift shields and checkpoints.

When he and his father weren't ambling into the rain forest to build makeshift rafts and float down jungle.

Then, with help from a cousin and friend, spent many weeks scrounging makeshift parts to construct the real thing.

But two technology trends may finally topple this makeshift structure and signal the end of the auction.

Worse, the poor often got shunted aside as their makeshift neighborhoods were redeveloped with high-rises they couldn't afford.

Bangladesh, wearing a makeshift cloth mask in a worthless effort to protect himself from the hazardous nano-particles.

The preliminary design for the vehicle marks the height of simplicity and funky makeshift ingenuity.

Late this afternoon there's a baseball game going on in a makeshift field behind the colony school.

During the battle, the flagpole was toppled by shellfire but was heroically remounted on a makeshift stand.

We set up our makeshift tent where we'll store all of our equipment.

On this communal ranch the older children play ball on a makeshift field, the fenceless outfield stretching out forever.

Charcoal, made from trees cut and reduced to carbon in makeshift mud ovens, comes from inside the park.

The little girl was playing stones with her sibling in the corner of her family makeshift home.

In these regions the motorcyclists fixed compact discs to their mud flaps as makeshift reflectors.

Main Entry:	device
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	instrument, tool
Synonyms:	Rube Goldberg invention, accessory, agent, apparatus, appliance, arrangement, article, construction, contraption, contrivance, creation, doohickey, equipment, expedient, gadget, gear, gimmick, implement, invention, machine, makeshift, material, means, mechanism, medium, outfit, resort, resource, rigging, shift, tackle, thingamabob, utensil, whatchamacallit, whatnot, whatsit

Main Entry:	excuse
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	reason, explanation
Synonyms:	alibi, apology, cleanup, cop-out, cover story, cover, coverup, defense, disguise, evasion, expedient, extenuation, fish story, grounds, jive, justification, makeshift, mitigation, plea, pretext, rationalization, regrets, routine, semblance, shift, song and dance, song, stall, stopgap, story, substitute, subterfuge, trick*, vindication, whitewash, why and wherefore

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	expediency/expedience
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	resource
Synonyms:	band-aid, contrivance, design, device, dodge, easy way out, gimmick, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, method, recourse, resort, scheme, shift, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, substitute, surrogate, tactic, trick

Main Entry:	expedient
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	resource
Synonyms:	contrivance, device, gency, instrument, instrumentality, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, medium, method, recourse, refuge, resort, scheme, shift, stopgap, stratagem, substitute

Main Entry:	extemporaneous/extemporary
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	unrehearsed, improvised
Synonyms:	ad hoc, ad lib, at first glance, automatic, by ear, casual, expedient, extempore, free, immediate, impromptu, improv, improvisatory, improviso, informal, jamming, made-up, makeshift, off the cuff, off the top of head, offhand, on impulse, on-the-spot, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, taking for ride, thought out loud, tossed off, tossed out, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unstudied, winging it
Antonyms:	planned, prepared, read, rehearsed, written

Main Entry:	improvised
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	made-up
Synonyms:	Band-Aid, ad-lib, autoschediastic, extemporaneous, extempore, extemporized, fly-by-night, hit-or-miss, impromptu, improviso, makeshift, offhand, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, unprepared, unrehearsed, unstudied
Antonyms:	designed, planned, premediated, rehearsed

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