Other Definitions make (enc)
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Make| 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 push-ups" | | | 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 young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be" 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, especially 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 - avance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" re-create - create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale" bring forth, generate - bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office" 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 - evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "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 or compel 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 - physiology: 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 - of plants or 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 putting together several thin sheets of a 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 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 components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys" 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" 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" breast - reach the summit; "They breasted the mountain" 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" peak - to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929" bottom out - reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while" top out - reach the highest point; "Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" summit - reach the summit of a 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 arrrow found its mark" culminate - of a celestial body: reach its highest altitude or the meridian 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 - 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"; "The branches made a roof" make - amount to; "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living" | | | 26. | make - form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum"; "The branches made a roof"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" | | | 27. | make - organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course" | | | 28. | 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" 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" | | | 29. | make - put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room"make - gather and light the materials for; "make a fire" | | | 30. | 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" | | | 31. | 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 | | | 32. | 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" | | | 33. | 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" | | | 34. | 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" | | | 35. | 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" | | | 36. | make - appear to begin an activity; "He made to speak but said nothing i the end"; "She made a 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" | | | 37. | 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" | | | 38. | 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" | | | 39. | 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" | | | 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 | |
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