Word Finder - make

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Brand or kind; model.

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What make of car do you drive?

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Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.

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Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.

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The camera was of German make.

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A person's character or disposition.

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The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.

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Quantity produced, especially of materials.

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A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.

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Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.

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(usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present or future target of seduction (usually female).

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A promotion.

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A home-made project

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Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.

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A made basket.

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The closing of an electrical circuit.

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To create.

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To behave, to act.

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He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.

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To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.

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To constitute.

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One swallow does not a summer make.

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To add up to, have a sum of.

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Two and four make six.

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(construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.

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I don’t know what to make of it.

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(usually stressed) To bring into success.

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She married into wealth and so has it made.

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(ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.

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Did I make myself heard?

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• render

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To cause to appear to be; to represent as.

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(ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).

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I was made to feel like a criminal.

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(ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.

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Don’t let them make you suffer.

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(ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.

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His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.

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(of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.

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(law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.

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To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.

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We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.

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To proceed (in a direction).

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Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!

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To cover (a given distance) by travelling.

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To move at (a speed).

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The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.

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To appoint; to name.

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To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).

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To defecate or urinate.

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To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).

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He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.

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To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.

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To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

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To enact; to establish.

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To develop into; to prove to be.

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She'll make a fine president.

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To form or formulate in the mind.

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made a questionable decision

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To perform a feat.

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make a leap

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To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.

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In the end, my class didn't make, which left me with a bit of free time.

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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.

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To increase; to augment; to accrue.

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To be engaged or concerned in.

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To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.

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To take the virginity of.

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To have sexual intercourse with.