make
1verb (used with object), made, mak·ing.
- to name (the trump).
- to take a trick with (a card).
- Bridge. to fulfill or achieve (a contract or bid).
- to shuffle (the cards).
- to recognize or identify: Any cop in town will make you as soon as you walk down the street.
- to charge or cause to be charged with a crime: The police expect to make a couple of suspects soon.
verb (used without object), made, mak·ing.
noun
Verb Phrases
- to write out or complete, as a bill or check.
- to establish; prove.
- to decipher; discern.
- to imply, suggest, or impute: He made me out to be a liar.
- to manage; succeed: How are you making out in your new job?
- Slang. to engage in kissing and caressing; neck.
- Slang. to have sexual intercourse.
- Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to turn off or extinguish (especially a light or fire): Make the light out.
- to remodel; alter: to make over a dress; to make over a page layout.
- to transfer the title of (property); convey: After she retired she made over her property to her children and moved to Florida.
- to go toward; approach: to make for home.
- to lunge at; attack.
- to help to promote or maintain: This incident will not make for better understanding between the warring factions.
- to run away; depart hastily: The only witness to the accident made off before the police arrived.
- Nautical. to stand off from a coast, especially a lee shore.
- (of parts) to constitute; compose; form.
- to put together; construct; compile.
- to concoct; invent.
- Also make up for. to compensate for; make good.
- to complete.
- to put in order; arrange: The maid will make up the room.
- to conclude; decide.
- to settle amicably, as differences.
- to become reconciled, as after a quarrel.
- Printing. to arrange set type, illustrations, etc., into columns or pages.
- to dress in appropriate costume and apply cosmetics for a part on the stage.
- to apply cosmetics.
- to adjust or balance, as accounts; prepare, as statements.
- Education. to repeat (a course or examination that one has failed).
- Education. to take an examination that one had been unable to take when first given, usually because of absence.
- to specify and indicate the layout or arrangement of (columns, pages, etc., of matter to be printed).
- Atlantic States. (of the weather or clouds) to develop or gather: It's making up for a storm.
- Atlantic States. (of the sea) to become turbulent: If the sea makes up, row toward land.
- Informal. to try to become friendly with; fawn on.
- to make advances to; flirt with: He makes up to every new woman in the office.
Idioms for make
- to steal: The clerk made away with the cash and checks.
- to destroy; kill: He made away with his enemies.
- to get rid of.
- to consume, drink, or eat completely: The boys made away with the contents of the refrigerator.
- to take bets and give odds.
- to make a business of this.
- to provide restitution or reparation for: The bank teller made good the shortage and was given a light sentence.
- to succeed: Talent and training are necessary to make good in some fields.
- to fulfill: He made good on his promise.
- Navigation. to compute (a course) allowing for leeway and compass deviation.
- Nautical. to roll and pitch in heavy seas.
- to progress laboriously; struggle, especially to struggle needlessly: I am making heavy weather with my income tax return.
- Informal. to achieve a specific goal: to make it to the train; to make it through college.
- Informal. to succeed in general: He'll never make it in business.
- Slang. to have sexual intercourse.
- to perform an appropriate or expected social courtesy.
- Older Use. to bow or curtsy.
- to set sails.
- to brace the yards of a ship that has been hove to in order to make headway.
- to urinate.
- Nautical. (of a hull) to leak.
- to operate; use: Let's make with the feet.
- to bring about; provide or produce: He makes with the big ideas, but can't follow through.
- seeking to improve one's social or financial position, usually at the expense of others or of principle.
- increasing; advancing.
- Slang. seeking amorous or sexual relations: The park was swarming with sailors on the make.
Origin of make
1SYNONYMS FOR make
synonym study for make
OTHER WORDS FROM make
mak·a·ble, adjectiveWords nearby make
Definition for make (2 of 2)
noun British Dialect.
Origin of make
2Content related to make
Example sentences from the Web for make
And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive |Ayaan Hirsi Ali |January 8, 2015 |DAILY BEASTThe court ruled she lacked the maturity to make her own medical decisions.
And it must make sure that the platform of debate where we can freely exchange ideas is safe and sound.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive |Ayaan Hirsi Ali |January 8, 2015 |DAILY BEASTOur duty is to make sure that they realize that the Prophet is not avenged.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive |Ayaan Hirsi Ali |January 8, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.
‘Empire’ Review: Hip-Hop Musical Chairs with an Insane Soap Opera Twist |Judnick Mayard |January 8, 2015 |DAILY BEASTBut the birds are not as helpless as the flowers, and are able to make their own nests.
Confidences |Edith B. LowryIf not in the Government plan the secretary would under-take to make such a map.
The commander does not, as yet, make a selection of one course of action in preference to another.
Sound Military Decision |U.s. Naval War CollegeThe common serpent was unknown to us; but with our voices alone we managed to make a formidable noise.
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish writers |Antoinette OgdenThe exigencies of the solar system may make it impossible for the sun to be always there, but it should be around when wanted.
British Dictionary definitions for make (1 of 2)
verb makes, making or made (mainly tr)
- to win a trick with (a specified card)
- to shuffle (the cards)
- bridge to fulfil (a contract) by winning the necessary number of tricks
- informal to be successful in doing something
- (foll by with) slang to have sexual intercourse
- slang to inject a narcotic drug
- to have sexual intercourse
- archaic to engage in courtship
- to have sexual intercourse with someone
- archaic to engage in courtship with someone
- another term for urinate
- (of a boat, hull, etc) to let in water
noun
- informal out for profit or conquest
- slang in search of a sexual partner
Derived forms of make
makable, adjectiveWord Origin for make
British Dictionary definitions for make (2 of 2)
noun archaic
Derived forms of make
makeless, adjectiveWord Origin for make
Idioms and Phrases with make
In addition to the idioms beginning with make
- make a beeline for
- make a break for
- make a bundle
- make a clean breast of
- make a clean sweep
- make a comeback
- make a crack
- make a date
- make a day of it
- make a dent in
- make a difference
- make advances
- make a face
- make a federal case of
- make a fool of
- make a fortune
- make a fuss
- make a go of
- make a hash of
- make a hit
- make a hole in
- make a killing
- make a laughingstock of
- make a living
- make allowance for
- make a long story short
- make amends
- make a monkey out of
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- make a name for oneself
- make an appearance
- make an appointment
- make an ass of
- make an end of
- make an example of
- make an exception
- make an exhibition of oneself
- make a night of it
- make an impression
- make a note of
- make a nuisance of oneself
- make a pass at
- make a pig of oneself
- make a pile
- make a pitch for
- make a play for
- make a point of
- make a practice of
- make arrangements for
- make a run for
- make a scene
- make as if
- make a silk purse
- make a stab at
- make a stand
- make a statement
- make a stink
- make a virtue of necessity
- make away with
- make bail
- make believe
- make bold
- make book
- make bricks without straw
- make capital out of
- make conversation
- make demands on
- make do
- make ends meet
- make eyes at
- make fast work of
- make for
- make free with
- make friends
- make fun of
- make good
- make good time
- make great strides
- make haste
- make hay while the sun shines
- make head or tail of
- make headway
- make heavy weather
- make history
- make inroads into
- make it
- make it hot for
- make it one's business
- make it snappy
- make it up
- make it with
- make light of
- make like
- make little of
- make love
- make mincemeat of
- make mischief
- make much of
- make my day
- make no bones about
- make no difference
- make no mistake
- make nothing of
- make off
- make one's bed and lie in it
- make one's blood boil
- make one's blood run cold
- make one's day
- make one's ears burn
- make oneself at home
- make oneself scarce
- make one's flesh creep
- make one's hair stand on end
- make one's head spin
- make one sick
- make one's mark
- make one's mouth water
- make one's peace with
- make one's point
- make one's way
- make or break
- make out
- make out like a bandit
- make over
- make peace
- make ready
- make rounds
- make sail
- make sense
- make short work of
- make someone look good
- make something of
- make sport of
- make stick
- make sure
- make the bed
- make the best of it
- make the dust fly
- make the grade
- make the most of
- make the rounds
- make the scene
- make the sparks fly
- make time
- make tracks
- make up
- make up for lost time
- make up one's mind
- make up to
- make use of
- make waves
- make way
- make whoopee
- make with
also see:
- absence makes the heart grow fonder
- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- can't make head or tail of
- kiss and make up
- many hands make light work
- might makes right
- on the make
- practice makes perfect
- put in (make) an appearance
- put the make on
- run for it, make a
- that makes two of us
- two wrongs do not make a right
- what makes one tick
Also see undermade.