verbWord forms: makes, making or made (mainly tr)1. to bring into being by shaping, changing, or combining materials, ideas, etc; form or fashion; create
to make a chair from bits of wood
make a poem
2. to draw up, establish, or form
to make a decision
make one's will
3. to cause to exist, bring about, or produce
don't make a noise
4. to cause, compel, or induce
please make him go away
5. to appoint or assign, as to a rank or position
they made her president
6. to constitute
one swallow doesn't make a summer
7. (also intr) to come or cause to come into a specified state or condition
to make merry
make someone happy
8. (copula) to be or become through development
he will make a good teacher
9. to cause or ensure the success of
your news has made my day
10. to amount to
twelve inches make a foot
11. to be part of or a member of
did she make one of the party?
12. to serve as or be suitable for
that piece of cloth will make a coat
13. to prepare or put into a fit condition for use
to make a bed
14. to be the essential element in or part of
charm makes a good salesperson
15. to carry out, effect, or do
to make a gesture
16. (intr; foll by to, as if to, or as though to) to act with the intention or with a show of doing something
they made to go out
he made as if to lock the door
17. to use for a specified purpose
I will make this town my base
18. to deliver or pronounce
to make a speech
19. to judge, reckon, or give one's own opinion or information as to
what time do you make it?
20. to cause to seem or represent as being
that furniture makes the room look dark
21. to earn, acquire, or win for oneself
to make friends
make a fortune
22. to engage in
make love not war
23. to traverse or cover (distance) by travelling
we can make a hundred miles by nightfall
24. to arrive in time for
he didn't make the first act of the play
25. cardsa. to win a trick with (a specified card)
b. to shuffle (the cards)
c. bridge to fulfil (a contract) by winning the necessary number of tricks
26. cricket to score (runs)
27. electronics to close (a circuit) permitting a flow of current
Compare break (sense 44) 28. (intransitive) to increase in depth
the water in the hold was making a foot a minute
29. (intransitive) (of hay) to dry and mature
30. informal to gain a place or position on or in
to make the headlines
make the first team
31. informal to achieve the rank of
33. be made up
34. make a book
35. make a day of it
36. make a night of it
37. make do
38. make eyes at
39. make good
40. make heavy weather
41. make heavy weather of something
42. make it
43. make like
44. make love
45. make love to someone
46. make or break
48. make water
noun49. brand, type, or style
what make of car is that?
50. the manner or way in which something is made
51. disposition or character; make-up
52. the act or process of making
53. the amount or number made
54. bridge the contract to be played
55. cards a player's turn to shuffle
56. on the make