make
noun
- Brand or kind; model.
"What make of car do you drive?"
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
"The camera was of German make."
- A person's character or disposition.
- The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
- Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- (usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present or future target of seduction (usually female).
- A promotion.
- A home-made project
- Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- A made basket.
- The closing of an electrical circuit.
verb
- To create.
- To behave, to act.
"He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands."
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To constitute.
"One swallow does not a summer make."
- To add up to, have a sum of.
"Two and four make six."
- (construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
"I don’t know what to make of it."
- (usually stressed) To bring into success.
"She married into wealth and so has it made."
- (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
"Did I make myself heard?"
- 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).
"I was made to feel like a criminal."
- (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
"Don’t let them make you suffer."
- (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
"His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person."
- (of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- (law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
- To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
"We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight."
- To proceed (in a direction).
"Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!"
- To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To move at (a speed).
"The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas."
- To appoint; to name.
- To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- To defecate or urinate.
- To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
"He didn't make the choir after his voice changed."
- To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
- To enact; to establish.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
"She'll make a fine president."
- To form or formulate in the mind.
"made a questionable decision"
- To perform a feat.
"make a leap"
- To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
"In the end, my class didn't make, which left me with a bit of free time."
- 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.
- To increase; to augment; to accrue.
- To be engaged or concerned in.
- To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
- To take the virginity of.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
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