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make (m k)v. made (md), mak·ing, makes v.tr.1. To cause to exist or happen; bring about; create: made problems for us; making a commotion. 2. To bring into existence by shaping, modifying, or putting together material; construct: make a dress; made a stone wall. 3. To form by assembling individuals or constituents: make a quorum. 4. To change from one form or function to another: make clay into bricks. 5. a. To cause to be or become: made her position clear; a decision that made him happy. b. To cause to assume a specified function or role: made her treasurer; made Austin his home. 6. a. To cause to act in a specified manner: Heat makes gases expand. b. To compel: made him quit. 7. a. To form in the mind: make an estimate. b. To compose: make verses. 8. a. To prepare; fix: make dinner. b. To get ready or set in order for use: made the bed. c. To gather and light the materials for (a fire). 9. a. To engage in: make war. b. To carry out; perform: make a phone call; make an incision. 10. To achieve, produce, or attain: made peace between the two sides; not making sense; didn't make the quota. 11. a. To institute or establish; enact: make laws. b. To draw up and execute in a suitable form: make a will. c. To arrange or agree to: make a date. 12. a. To arrive at; reach: made Seattle in two hours. b. To reach in time: just made the plane. 13. a. To attain the rank or position of: made lieutenant. b. To acquire a place in or on: made the baseball team; made the newspapers. 14. a. To gain or earn, as by working: make money. b. To behave so as to acquire: make friends. c. To score or achieve, as in a sport: made a field goal. 15. a. To assure the success of: Favorable reviews can make a play. b. To favor the development of: Practice makes a winning team. 16. To be suited for: Oak makes strong furniture. 17. To develop into: will make a fine doctor. 18. a. To draw a conclusion as to the significance or nature of: don't know what to make of the decision. b. To calculate as being; estimate: I make the height 20 feet. c. To consider as being: wasn't the problem some people made it. 19. a. To constitute: Ten members make a quorum. b. To add up to: Two and two make four. c. To amount to: makes no difference. 20. To cover (a distance): made 200 miles before sunset 21. To constitute the essence or nature of: Clothes make the man. 22. To cause to be especially enjoyable or rewarding: You made my day. 23. To appear to begin (an action): She made to leave. 24. Slang To persuade to have sexual intercourse. v.intr.1. To act or behave in a specified manner: make merry; make free. 2. To begin or appear to begin an action: made as if to shake my hand. 3. To cause something to be as specified: make ready; make sure. 4. To proceed in a certain direction: made for home; made after the thief. 5. Slang To pretend to be; imitate. Used with like: made like a ballerina. 6. To undergo fabrication or manufacture: This wool makes up into a warm shawl. 7. To rise or accumulate: The tide is making. n.1. The act or process of making; manufacturing. 2. The style or manner in which a thing is made: disliked the make of my coat. 3. The amount produced, especially the output of a factory. 4. A specific line of manufactured goods, identified by the manufacturer's name or the registered trademark: a famous make of shirt. 5. The physical or moral nature of a person; character or disposition: found out what make of man he was. 6. Slang Identification of a person or thing, often from information in police records: Did you get a make on the thief? Phrasal Verbs: make for1. To have or produce (a particular effect or result): small details that make for comfort. 2. To help promote; further: makes for better communication. make off To depart in haste; run away. make out1. To discern or see, especially with difficulty: I could barely make out the traffic signs through the rain. 2. To understand: could not make out what she said. 3. To write out; draw up: made out the invoices. 4. To fill in (a form, for example). 5. Informal To represent as being: made me out to be a liar. 6. Informal To try to establish or prove: He made out that he was innocent. 7. To get along in a given way; fare: made out well in business. 8. Slang a. To neck; pet. b. To have sexual intercourse. make over1. To redo; renovate. 2. To change or transfer the ownership of, usually by means of a legal document: made over the property to her son. make up1. To put together; construct or compose: make up a prescription. 2. To constitute; form: Ten years make up a decade. 3. a. To alter one's appearance for a role on the stage, as with a costume and cosmetics. b. To apply cosmetics. 4. To devise as a fiction or falsehood; invent: made up an excuse. 5. a. To make good (a deficit or lack): made up the difference in the bill. b. To compensate for: make up for lost time. 6. To resolve a quarrel: kissed and made up. 7. To make ingratiating or fawning overtures. Used with to: made up to his friend's boss. 8. To take (an examination or course) again or at a later time because of previous absence or failure. 9. To set in order: make up a room. 10. Printing To select and arrange material for: made up the front page. make with Slang 1. To bring into use: a flirt making with the eyes. 2. To put forth; produce: always making with the jokes. Idioms: make a clean breast of To confess fully. make a face To distort the features of the face; grimace. make a go of To achieve success in: have made a go of the business. make away with1. To carry off; steal. 2. To use up or consume. 3. To kill or destroy. make bold To venture: I will not make so bold as to criticize such a scholar. make book To accept bets on a race, game, or contest. make do To manage to get along with the means available: had to make do on less income. make ends meet To manage so that one's means are sufficient for one's needs. make fun of To mock; ridicule. make good1. To carry out successfully: made good his escape. 2. To fulfill: made good her promise. 3. To make compensation for; make up for: made good the loss. 4. To succeed: made good as a writer. make hay To turn to one's advantage: The candidate's opponents made hay of the scandal. make heads or tails of To understand: I couldn't make heads or tails of the report. make history To do something memorable or spectacular enough to influence the course of history: The first space flight made history. make it1. Informal To achieve a goal; be successful. finally made it as an actor. 2. Slang To have sexual intercourse. make light of To treat as unimportant: He made light of his illness. make love1. To engage in amorous caressing. 2. To engage in sexual intercourse. make much of To treat as of great importance. make no bones about To be forthright and candid about; acknowledge freely: They make no bones about their dislike for each other. make off with To snatch or steal: made off with the profits. make (one's) day To give one great pleasure. make (one's) peace with To bring oneself to accept; reconcile oneself to. make (one's) way1. To go forward; advance. 2. To succeed, especially in making a living. make sail1. To begin a voyage. 2. To set sail. make sense1. To be coherent or intelligible: an explanation that made sense. 2. To be practical or advisable: It makes sense to go now. make something of To start a fight or quarrel over. make the grade To measure up to a given standard. make the most of To use to the greatest advantage. make the scene Slang 1. To put in an appearance: made the scene at the party. 2. To participate in a specified activity: made the drug scene. make time1. To travel speedily. 2. To travel at a specified rate: We made good time getting to town. 3. Slang To make progress toward attracting someone: tried to make time with the new neighbor. make tracks Slang To move or leave in a hurry. make up (one's) mind To decide between alternatives; come to a definite decision or opinion. make waves Slang To cause a disturbance or controversy. make way1. To give room for passage; move aside. 2. To make progress. on the make Slang 1. Aggressively striving for financial or social improvement: a young executive on the make. 2. Eagerly seeking a sexual partner.
[Middle English maken, from Old English macian; see mag- in Indo-European roots.]
mak a·ble, makea·ble adj. |
make Verb [making, made] 1. to create, construct, establish, or draw up; bring into being: houses made of stone, he will have to make a will 2. to cause to do or be; compel or induce: please make her go away 3. to bring about or produce: don't make a noise 4. to carry out or perform: he made his first trip to China in 1987, she made an obscene gesture 5. to appoint: they made him caretaker manager 6. to come into a specified state or condition: to make merry 7. to become: she will make a good diplomat 8. to cause or ensure the success of: that news has made my day 9. to amount to: 5 and 5 make 10 10. to earn or be paid: they must be making a fortune 11. to have the qualities of or be suitable for: what makes this book such a good read? 12. to prepare for use: she forgot to make her bed 13. to be the essential element in: confidence makes a good salesman 14. to use for a specified purpose: they will make this town their base 15. to deliver: he made a very good speech 16. to consider to be: what time do you make it? 17. to cause to seem or represent as being: her girlish pigtails made her look younger than she was, she made the experience sound most unpleasant 18. to acquire: she doesn't make friends easily 19. to engage in: they made war on the Turks 20. to travel a certain distance or to a certain place: we can make at least three miles before it gets dark 21. to arrive in time for: he didn't make the first act of the play 22. to win or score: he made a break of 125 23. Informal to gain a place or position on or in: to make the headlines 24. make a day or night of it to cause an activity to last a day or night 25. make eyes at Old-fashioned to flirt with or ogle 26. make it Informal a. to be able to attend: I'm afraid I can't make it to your party b. to be successful 27. make like Slang, chiefly US & Canad a. to imitate b. to pretend 28. make to or as if to or as though to to act with the intention or with a show of doing something: she made as if to hit him Noun 1. manufacturer; brand: what make of car is that? 2. the way in which something is made 3. on the make Slang out for profit or conquest maker n
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. |  make - a recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?"kind, sort, form, variety - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" | | 2. |  make - the act of mixing cards haphazardlyriffle - shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners | | Verb | 1. |  make - engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution"make - perform or carry out; "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call" overdo, exaggerate - do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups" | | 2. | make - give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"render - cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile" get, let, have - cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" leave - act or be so as to become in a specified state; "The inflation left them penniless"; "The president's remarks left us speechless" | | 3. | make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"procreate, reproduce, multiply - have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant; "The Bible tells people to procreate" regenerate - form or produce anew; "regenerate hatred" clear - make a way or path by removing objects; "Clear a path through the dense forest" distil, distill, extract - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound" educe, derive - develop or evolve from a latent or potential state spume, suds, froth - make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed" puncture - make by piercing; "puncture a hole" twine - make by twisting together or intertwining; "twine a rope" cleave - make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock" institute, bring - advance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" re-create - create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale" grind - created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl" bring forth, generate - bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami" yield, give - cause to happen or be responsible for; "His two singles gave the team the victory" make for, wreak, bring, work, play - cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area" bring up, call down, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call forth, put forward, arouse, evoke, stir, raise - summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" create, make - create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" cause, do, make - give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" establish, give - bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" turn in, put on - carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game" bear, turn out - bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" build, construct, make - make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" build, establish - build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation" style - make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress" strike - produce by ignition or a blow; "strike fire from the flintstone"; "strike a match" | | 4. | make - cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"decide - cause to decide; "This new development finally decided me!" persuade - cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!" bring - induce or persuade; "The confession of one of the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well" solicit - incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination; "He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents" encourage - spur on; "His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife" let - actively cause something to happen; "I let it be known that I was not interested" lead - cause to undertake a certain action; "Her greed led her to forge the checks" suborn - induce to commit perjury or give false testimony; "The President tried to suborn false witnesses" compel, obligate, oblige - force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form" | | 5. | make - give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" initiate, pioneer - take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants" make - compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat" impel, force - urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate facilitate - increase the likelihood of (a response); "The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse" | | 6. | make - create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"breed - cause to procreate (animals); "She breeds dogs" prefabricate - produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally underproduce - produce below capacity or demand; "The East German factories were underproducing for many years" output - to create or manufacture a specific amount; "the computer is outputting the data from the job I'm running" pulse, pulsate - produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube" dummy, dummy up - make a dummy of; "dummy up the books that are to be published" turn out - produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery; "This factory turns out saws" machine - make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars" churn out - produce something at a fast rate; "He churns out papers, but they are all about the same topic" overproduce - produce in excess; "The country overproduces cars" elaborate - produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey" put out - put out considerable effort; "He put out the same for seven managers" laminate - create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material bootleg - produce or distribute illegally; "bootleg tapes of the diva's singing" generate - produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity" generate, yield, render, give, return - give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" create, make - create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" smelt - extract (metals) by heating reproduce - make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting" preassemble, prefabricate - to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings print, publish - put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed" proof - make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset burn, cut - create by duplicating data; "cut a disk"; "burn a CD" | | 7. | make - make, formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?"make - calculate as being; "I make the height about 100 feet" | | 8. | make - compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat"cause, do, make - give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" drive - compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs" | | 9. | make - create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" do, make - create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest" produce, create, make - create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" design - create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit" design - create designs; "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel" | | 10. | make - earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"make - act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" squeeze out, eke out - make by laborious and precarious means; "He eked out a living as a painter" turn a profit, profit - make a profit; gain money or materially; "The company has not profited from the merger" rake off - take money from an illegal transaction take home, bring home - earn as a salary or wage; "How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?" rake in, shovel in - earn large sums of money; "Since she accepted the new position, she has been raking it in" gross - earn before taxes, expenses, etc. pay, bear, yield - bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?" | | 11. | make - create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"create, make - create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" | | 12. | make - to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"constitute, make up, comprise, be, represent - form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" chelate - form a chelate, in chemistry add - constitute an addition; "This paper will add to her reputation" | | 13. | make - reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade" | | 14. | make - be or be capable of being changed or made into; "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father"become - come into existence; "What becomes has duration" | | 15. | make - make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"compile, compose - put together out of existing material; "compile a list" compile - use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed fabricate, manufacture, construct - put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal" fashion, forge - make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" cooper - make barrels and casks | | 16. | make - perform or carry out; "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call"perform, do, execute - carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" pay - render; "pay a visit"; "pay a call" do, make - engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" | | 17. | make - make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"revet - construct a revetment create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" dry-wall - construct with drywall; "dry-wall the basement of the house" lock - build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels wattle - build of or with wattle groin - build with groins; "The ceiling was groined" cantilever - construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings" build - be engaged in building; "These architects build in interesting and new styles" corduroy - build (a road) from logs laid side by side channelise, channelize - make a channel for; provide with a channel; "channelize the country for better transportation" | | 18. | make - change from one form into another; "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | | 19. | make - act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies"behave, act, do - behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" earn, realise, pull in, bring in, realize, gain, make, take in, clear - earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" get, have, make - achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day" | | 20. | make - charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club"rename - name again or anew; "He was renamed Minister of the Interior" appoint, charge - assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" | | 21. | make - achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"make - act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" rack up, score, tally, hit - gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" | | 22. | make - reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"catch up - reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework" surmount, scale - reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc" get at, access - reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof" bottom out - reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while" peak, top out - to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" summit, breast - reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit" top - reach or ascend the top of; "The hikers topped the mountain just before noon" make - reach in time; "We barely made the plane" make - reach in time; "We barely made the plane" find - succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark" culminate - reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body come through, get through - succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister" | | 23. | make - institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"set, mark - establish as the highest level or best performance; "set a record" create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" | | 24. | make - carry out or commit; "make a mistake"; "commit a faux-pas"commit, perpetrate, pull - perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery" | | 25. | make - form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum"get together, assemble, gather - get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" make - add up to; "four and four make eight" | | 26. | make - organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course" | | 27. | make - put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room"make - gather and light the materials for; "make a fire" | | 28. | make - head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains"head - to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains" | | 29. | make - have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, piss, wee, wee-wee, urinate, piddle, puddle, make - eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" dung - defecate; used of animals | | 30. | make - undergo fabrication or creation; "This wool makes into a nice sweater"change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | | 31. | make - be suitable for; "Wood makes good furniture"be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" | | 32. | make - add up to; "four and four make eight"arithmetic - the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations make - form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum" make - amount to; "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living" | | 33. | make - amount to; "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living"amount - be tantamount or equivalent to; "Her action amounted to a rebellion" make - add up to; "four and four make eight" | | 34. | make - constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man"constitute, make up, comprise, be, represent - form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" | | 35. | make - appear to begin an activity; "He made to speak but said nothing in the end"; "She made as if to say hello to us"appear, seem, look - give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" | | 36. | make - proceed along a path; "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest"claw - move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging; "They clawed their way to the top of the mountain" jostle - make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving; "We had to jostle our way to the front of the platform" go across, pass, go through - go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" bushwhack - cut one's way through the woods or bush work - proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity; "work your way through every problem or task"; "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived"; "Start from the bottom and work towards the top" | | 37. | make - reach in time; "We barely made the plane"arrive at, reach, attain, gain, hit, make - reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" arrive at, reach, attain, gain, hit, make - reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" | | 38. | make - gather and light the materials for; "make a fire"make up, make - put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room" ready, prepare, cook, fix, make - prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" | | 39. | make - prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"preserve, keep - prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh" dress out, dress - kill and prepare for market or consumption; "dress a turkey" deglaze - dissolve cooking juices or solid food in (a pan) by adding liquid and stirring escallop, scallop - bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top flambe - pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) put on - put on the stove or ready for cooking; "put on the tea, please!" devil - coat or stuff with a spicy paste; "devilled eggs" precook - cook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long; "precook the rice" cook up, concoct - prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange mixture" lard - prepare or cook with lard; "lard meat" make - gather and light the materials for; "make a fire" | | 40. | make - induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"persuade - cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!" seduce - lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct; "She was seduced by the temptation of easy money and started to work in a massage parlor" | | 41. | make - assure the success of; "A good review by this critic will make your play!"break - cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright" | | 42. | make - represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"go through the motions - pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it; "She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions" act, play, represent - play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master" | | 43. | make - consider as being; "It wasn't the problem some people made it"consider, regard, view, reckon, see - deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" make - calculate as being; "I make the height about 100 feet" | | 44. | make - calculate as being; "I make the height about 100 feet"make - consider as being; "It wasn't the problem some people made it" draw, make - make, formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?" | | 45. | make - cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; "make my day"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | | 46. | make - favor the development of; "Practice makes the winner"develop - generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone" | | 47. | make - develop into; "He will make a splendid father!"grow, develop - grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior" | | 48. | make - behave in a certain way; "make merry"behave, act, do - behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" | | 49. |  make - eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, piss, wee, wee-wee, urinate, piddle, puddle urinate - pass after the manner of urine; "The sick men urinated blood" wet - make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed" stale - urinate, of cattle and horses |
make verb 1. produce, cause, create, effect, lead to, occasion, generate, bring about, give rise to, engender, beget verb 3. force, cause, press, compel, drive, require, oblige, induce, railroad ( informal) constrain, coerce, impel, dragoon, pressurize, prevail upon verb 4. appoint, name, select, elect, invest, install, nominate, assign, designate, hire as, cast as, employ as, ordain, vote in as, recruit as, engage as, enlist as verb 5. create, build, produce, manufacture, form, model, fashion, shape, frame, construct, assemble, compose, forge, mould, put together, originate, fabricate verb 7. earn, get, gain, net, win, clear, secure, realize, obtain, acquire, bring in, take in, fetch verb 10. calculate, judge, estimate, determine, think, suppose, reckon, work out, compute, gauge, count up, put a figure on noun 11. brand, sort, style, model, build, form, mark, kind, type, variety, construction, marque make as if pretend, affect, give the impression that, feign, feint, make a show of, act as if or though make away or off with something steal, nick ( slang), chiefly Brit. pinch ( informal) nab ( informal) carry off, swipe ( slang) knock off ( slang) pilfer, cart off ( slang) purloin, filch make believe pretend, play, enact, feign, play-act, act as if or though make do manage, cope, improvise, muddle through, get along or by, scrape along or by make for something 1. head for, aim for, head towards, set out for, be bound for, make a beeline for, steer (a course) for, proceed towards make off flee, clear out ( informal) abscond, fly, bolt, decamp, hook it ( slang) do a runner ( slang) run for it ( informal) slope off, cut and run ( informal) beat a hasty retreat, fly the coop U.S., Canad. ( informal) make away, skedaddle ( informal) take a powder U.S., Canad. ( slang) take to your heels, run away or off make something out 1. see, observe, distinguish, perceive, recognize, detect, glimpse, pick out, discern, catch sight of, espy, descry 2. understand, see, work out, grasp, perceive, follow, realize, comprehend, fathom, decipher, suss (out) ( slang) get the drift of 4. pretend, claim, suggest, maintain, declare, allege, hint, imply, intimate, assert, insinuate, let on, make as if make something up invent, create, construct, compose, write, frame, manufacture, coin, devise, hatch, originate, formulate, dream up, fabricate, concoct, cook up ( informal) trump up make up for something compensate for, redress, make amends for, atone for, balance out, offset, expiate, requite, make reparation for, make recompense for make up something make up to someone ( Informal) flirt with, be all over, come on to, chase after, court, pursue, woo, run after, chat up ( informal) curry favour with, make overtures to, make eyes at  Translationsmake [meɪk] vt [ pt, pp made] [meɪd] → hacer (= manufacture); hacer, fabricar (= cause to be): to make sb sad → poner triste or entristecer a algn (= force): to make sb do sth → obligar a algn a hacer algo (= equal): 2 and 2 make 4 → 2 y 2 son 4what time do you make it? → ¿qué hora tienes?; to make do with → contentarse conmake for vt fus [+ place] → dirigirse a make off vi → largarse to make out (that) (= claim, imply) → dar a entender (que); to make out a case for sth → dar buenas razones en favor de algovi → reconciliarse; (with cosmetics) → maquillarse; make [meɪk] [ made , pt, pp ] vt → machen; (manufacture) → herstellen; (cause to be); (force); (equal); make up make vt ( constitute) → bilden; make up for make vt fus ( loss) → ersetzen; make [meɪk] vt [ pt made, pp ] [meɪd] → fare (= manufacture); fare, fabbricare (= cause to be): to make sb sad etc → rendere qn triste etc (= force): to make sb do sth → costringere qn a fare qc, far fare qc a qn (= equal): 2 and 2 make 4 → 2 più 2 fa 4to make it ( in time etc) → arrivare (= succeed); farcela; to make good vi (= succeed) → aver successoto make do with → arrangiarsi conmake for vt fus [+ place] → avviarsi verso vi → conciliarsi; (with cosmetics) → truccarsi;
makev make [meik]1 to create, form or produce God made the Earth; She makes all her own clothes; He made it out of paper; to make a muddle/mess of the job; to make lunch/coffee; We made an arrangement/agreement/deal/bargain.maakيَصْنَع، يَعْمَلсъздавам(s)tvořit; (u)dělat; sjednatskabe; lave; gøremachenκάνω, δημιουργώ, κατασκευάζωhacer, construir, fabricartegemaساختنtehdäfaireלִיצוֹר, לַעֲשוֹתनिर्माण करना, बनानाčinitikészít, csinálmembuatgera, búa tilfare, creare作る만들다(pa)daryti, (su)kurti, (pa)ruošti, sudarytigatavot; taisīt; radītmembuatmakenlage, skape, formetworzyć, robićfazera faceделать(s)tvoriť: (u)robiť; uzavrieťnareditipravitigöra, tillverka, skapaทำyapmak制造，构成，制定робити; утворюватиبنانا، تخلیق کرناlàm; tạo ra制造，构成，制定 2 to compel, force or cause (a person or thing to do something) They made her do it; He made me laugh.laatيُجْبِر، يُسَبِّب، يَجْعَلнакарвам |
