make
IPA: mˈeɪk
noun
- Brand or kind; model.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- A person's character or disposition.
- (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
- (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- (slang) Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- (slang, military) A promotion.
- A home-made project.
- (card games) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- (basketball) A made basket.
- (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
- (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- (UK, dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
- (East Anglia, Essex, obsolete) An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.
verb
- (transitive) To create.
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- To write or compose.
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- (transitive) To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
- (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To constitute.
- (transitive) To add up to, have a sum of.
- (transitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
- (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
- (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
- (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
- (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- (transitive, US slang, crime, law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
- (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
- (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- (transitive) To move at (a speed).
- To appoint; to name.
- (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
- (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
- To enact; to establish.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- To perform a feat.
- (intransitive) To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
- (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
- (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
- (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
- (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (intransitive) Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
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Examples of "make" in Sentences
- A creamery is a place that makes dairy products.
- He is also a master of creating lifelike masks and make up.
- The extensive use of concrete makes the building more fireproof.
- The customer makes an offer by taking the product to the shopkeeper.
- Perhaps someone can make an inapt comment on the web about the product.
- To this day, the buildings make their mark on the cityscape of Copenhagen.
- This makes an immeasurable difference to the quality of the finished product.
- Agronomists study sustainable ways to make soils more productive and profitable.
- "Fine feathers make fine birds," the old proverb tells us; but no amount of fine dressing will ever _make_ a lady.
- It was as if a little mechanical toy should be contrived to make the motion of striking, and brilliantly _make_ it.
- "I'd make everybody on the division wish their own name was Toddles before I was through with them, and I'd _make_ a job for myself."
- We ask you, then, to remember that our growth -- and your opportunities -- depend not only upon the friends we make, but _the enemies we do not make_.
- Plus, I like to check the quality of a book before I buy..make sure the glue is adequate and the cover isn't pulling away from the binding, check to make sure I am getting a 1st edition, etc.
- Climate change, he indicated, will make scarce resources, clean water, viable agricultural land even scarcerand this will make the emergence of violent conflict more rather than less likely.
- NOTE. — _fy_, meaning to make, is found as a suffix in derivatives too numerous to mention; as, purify (to _make pure_), rarefy (to _make rare_), classify (to _make_ or put into a _class_), etc.
- I crossed the road of many Saakachvili's .. in their thirties or fourties, US-trained, long-teethed wolves fascinated by politics to make a carrier, ready to «make History» as long as History is flexible and obedient.