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.

Drowning your sorrows in eggnog will only make you feel worse in the long run.

That does make sense.

You make a difference.

Did you make any real progress?

They didn't make it to the restaurant.

I love to make everybody happy.

I always make it a rule to speak out.

It shouldn't make any difference if he's adopted.

I'm going to make myself a sandwich and get back to work.

I will go out and make believe that I am bringing him a present.

Make sure they don't bite you.

So every time I buy a can, I make $8.

You're going to make yourself sick.

It will only make things worse...

Do you ever make mistakes?

Well, obviously, Amazon is able to collect this data as they make sales.

You make an easy target.

Alex would make the misery go away.

We can still make plenty of progress.

After all, it was the doctor's job to keep you healthy, not to make money when you were sick.

I'll make this case for you.

One day King Astyages planned to make a great feast for the lad.

I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable.

He had access to his part much earlier than I did, so he was able to make some investments that really paid off.

The truth was, Carmen lacked the confidence to make decisions.

We have a natural desire to make beautiful things and a bone-deep need to understand the world we live in and our place in it.

You figure out how to make your widget from this new plastic.

It was the word "water," and I continued to make some sound for that word after all other speech was lost.

I think mother will be glad to make the dress for you, and when you wear it you will look as pretty as a rose.

However, when I have thought to indulge myself in this respect, and lay their Heaven under an obligation by maintaining certain poor persons in all respects as comfortably as I maintain myself, and have even ventured so far as to make them the offer, they have one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor.

He was trying to make it easy on her.

No matter how sorry Alex was for what happened, or how many times he apologized or tried to make up for it, he couldn't remove the hurt.

Surely he doesn't make all the decisions.

A little, why don't we go in and I'll make us some coffee?

Also I began to make balloon ascensions.

He'd be following shortly, trying to make it look like he was the injured party.

Whatever did I say to make you think that?

I waited until evening to make my momentous call to Agent Brennan.

She turned, startled to find the man in front her of the same make and mold as Damian's men.

Pray, how shall I, a little lad, In speaking make a figure?

No book is worth reading that does not make you better or wiser.

A 24-hour guard wasn't possible and arresting him would only make him more dangerous.

We can't expect them to make an exception for us.

If all their conversations in the three months he had been coming to the diner were put together, it was doubtful that they would make a respectable paragraph.

Those jeans make your legs look so long.

Thank you for driving all that way to make sure I was safe.

Whatever happens, it's us together and we'll make it.

Naughty, naughty, Miss Reagan; mustn't make daddy mad!

They watched her like they intended to make her their dinner.

I make the predictions in this book not to be sensational or controversial.