Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MAKE

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Definitions of MAKE

1. To constitute.
2. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
3. To appoint; to name.
4. To enact; to establish.
5. To develop into; to prove to be.
6. To form or formulate in the mind.
7. To perform a feat.
8. Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
9. A person's character or disposition.
10. (transitive) To create.
11. (intransitive, now mostlycolloquial) To behave, to act.
12. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
13. (transitive) To add up to, have a sum of.
14. (transitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
15. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
16. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
17. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
18. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
19. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
20. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
21. (transitive, USslang, crime, law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
22. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
23. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
24. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling. [from 16^thc.]
25. (transitive) To move at (a speed). [from 17^thc.]
26. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
27. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
28. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
29. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
30. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
31. (intransitive) To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
32. (obsolete) 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.
33. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
34. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
35. (now, archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
36. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of.
37. (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
38. (intransitive) Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
39. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
40. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
41. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
42. (slang, military) A promotion.
43. (cards) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
44. (basketball) A made basket.
45. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
46. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present or future target of seduction (usually female).
47. (UK, dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
48. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now, rare) A halfpenny. [from 16th c.]
49. (East Anglia, Essex, obsolete) An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.
50. (transitive, backgammon) To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.
51. Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
52. Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
53. (slang) Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
54. A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.

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Examples of Using MAKE in a Sentence

• Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan group of more than 50 species which make up the genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths.
• When Olympias was repudiated by her husband in 337 BC, she went to her brother, and endeavoured to induce him to make war on Philip.
• The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.
• The Astronomer Royal works to make observations to improve navigation, cartography, instrument design, and applications of geomagnetism.
• Aeon can also refer to the four aeons on the geologic time scale that make up the Earth's history, the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and the current aeon, Phanerozoic.
• His new firm was initially called Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH, but following a legal dispute over the Horch name, he decided to make another automobile company.
• It is based in and around Jolo and Basilan islands in the southwestern part of the Philippines, where for more than five decades, Moro groups had been engaged in an insurgency seeking to make Moro Province independent.
• Section 3(6) once provided that a constable could arrest without warrant anyone he reasonably suspected to be committing affray, but that subsection was repealed by paragraph 26(2) of Schedule 7 to, and Schedule 17 to, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, which includes more general provisions for police to make arrests without warrant.
• Either Ahuitzotl or his predecessor Tizoc was the first tlatoani of Tenochtitlan to assume the title Huey Tlatoani ("supreme tlatoani") to make their superiority over the other cities in the Triple Alliance (Aztec Empire) clear.
• Commonly referred to as believer's baptism, it is opposed to baptism of infants, who are not able to make a conscious decision to be baptized.
• 85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, as measured by population within city limits.
• Rugged mountains dominate the terrain and make the building of roads and other infrastructure difficult.
• It has sought to make the Southern African Development Community (SADC) a working vehicle for economic development, and it has promoted efforts to make the region self-policing in terms of preventive diplomacy, conflict resolution, and good governance.
• The Voltaic are far more numerous and include the Mossi, who make up about one-half of the population.
• It is used to connect several printed circuit boards together to make up a complete computer system.
• It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during reactions with other substances.
• Its adherents, known as Christians, are estimated to make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories.
• The numerical values that make up a character encoding are known as code points and collectively comprise a code space, a code page, or character map.
• Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe.
• Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms.

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