製造者・製造機（做出東西的一方）
最貼近核心的一支：把「做出東西的那一方」講出來，可能是人、公司，也可能是一台機器。
person/company that makes · noun · B2
A person or company that makes a certain kind of thing.
製造商 / 製造者
核心畫面
Picture a maker as the one that brings a thing into being — the hands, or the factory, standing behind a finished product. Whatever the thing is, the maker is the source it came from.
可以想成：一樣東西背後「把它做出來的那一方」。你手上的鞋、車、麵包，都有個來源——那個動手做、生出這樣東西的人或單位…更多收起
可以想成：一樣東西背後「把它做出來的那一方」。你手上的鞋、車、麵包，都有個來源——那個動手做、生出這樣東西的人或單位，就是 maker。畫面比較像站在成品後面的那雙手，或那間工廠。Three branches
促成事情的人
做出來的不再是一件實體東西，而是一個決定、一件事情——maker 從「做東西」延伸到「讓某件事發生」的那個人。
cause something to happen · noun · B2
Someone who makes or causes a particular thing to happen.
做…的人（決策者等）
造物主（固定說法）
把 maker 推到最極致：造出這一切的那一位。
meet your maker · noun · B2
In the phrase 'meet your maker', your maker means God or your creator, and the whole phrase is a gentle, joking way to say 'to die'.
造物主（見上帝＝死）
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Makername
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The Creator, God.
- As the hand began its descent, Jane Porter closed her eyes and sent up a silent prayer to the Maker she was so soon to face—then she succumbed to the strain upon her tired nerves, and swooned.
- Blessed is he who on the day of his death finds peace in the breast of his Maker!
Makername
- 1
A surname.
makernoun/ˈmeɪk.ə/
- 1
Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
- The silhouette sharpens and fades as the carving is moved before the flames of the hearth, its maker grunts in perfect imitation of the ancestor - a human-lioness in oestrus.
- Ukrainian and foreign UAV makers rock up early at an open field in the outskirts of Kyiv, to take part in a drone competition organized by the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
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God, the Creator.
- Well might the Sun in Darkneſs hide, / And ſhut his Glories in, / When God the mighty Maker dy’d / For Man the Creature’s Sin.
- 3
archaicA poet.
- Set ſophia aſyde, for euery iack raker And euery mad medler muſt now be a maker
- It is refreshing to read how makers find great allies in the past to help them tackle the present. It helps us to see that literature is a conversation across boundaries of nation, century and language.
- 4
lawSomeone who signs a promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。