Word Finder - makes

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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.

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Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.

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A halfpenny.

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An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.

Consider a factory that makes widgets for a dollar each.

It makes perfect sense, actually.

I am afraid to drink anything that makes men act in that way.

That makes no sense, Lacy.

He makes $10 an hour.

What makes you think I want to know anything from you?

He makes final decision on things.

He thinks that he makes a fine figure when he waits on you.

It makes Father crazy.

I know, but he makes the decisions.

There's an afternoon Amtrak train that makes the trip from South Station in Boston to Philly in less than five hours.

It makes me think that all people are good and loving.

It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

What makes you think you're saying is true?

Spit it out; what did you and Julie discuss that now makes you Aunt Betsy?

She has a hereditary blood anomaly that makes her immune to all but the oldest of our kind.

Driving makes you smile.

Nothing makes a man get mad faster.

That makes it an open case.

He makes his own rules.

They have no means to control me, which makes them less lazy than they have been for a millennium.

It is the development of this craft in connexion with the perfecting of flint-glass that makes the 18th century the most important period in the history of English glass-making.

Mine makes the servants wait on me and do as I tell them.

This makes sense, so she spends her last $2000 in savings to buy ads.

Once someone knows how to make a factory that can produce 48,000 pins a day with ten people, someone else can figure out how to make one that makes 100,000 a day with five people.

This action makes the price of a burger go up by $1,000 and drops demand to zero.

Recall my comparison of a nineteenth-century London factory to a factory that makes Volvos today.

This is exactly the sort of thinking that makes nation-states useful.

It is the same spirit that makes people fanatical about a certain sports team, regardless of the players or the score.

Under the terms of the definition I offered earlier, that makes Shakespeare the epitome of art—that is, something that continues to speak to future generations.

The economy makes new machines that replace manual labor because many thousands of people are paid very well to do so.

We are heading toward that, which makes progress ever more certain.

Constant practice makes the fingers very flexible, and some of my friends spell rapidly--about as fast as an expert writes on a typewriter.

It makes me most happy to remember the hours we spent helping each other in study and sharing our recreation together.

It's imperative to restrict everything that makes his stomach upset.

The mating bond alone makes it easy for a woman to control her mate.

But it makes me think that maybe things happen for a reason.

That makes me happy.

I'm not sure that makes much sense either.

At least we're taking some action, and we're doing it together—that makes me feel more secure.

In my younger days I slept on the ground half the summer, but old age makes you stiff.

I guess that makes him a resident.

What makes you think it's the same Josh?

What makes you think Fitzgerald's my drinking buddy?

That alone makes me nervous.

What makes you think I won't start telling tales?

It makes me feel…" "Remorse?"

That makes one of us.

What makes you think I won't tell Gabe, summon her and he'll claim her?

You have no idea how much that makes me hate myself sometimes, he said.