Shahi - A visual dictionary

make

See also måke

(verb)
1. To create, construct or produce.
  We made a bird feeder for our yard.
  They hope to make a bigger profit.
  We’ll make a man out of him yet.
2. To constitute.
  They make a cute couple.
  This makes the third infraction.
3. To interpret.
  I don’t know what to make of it.
4. To bring into success.
  This company is what made you.
  She married into wealth. She has it made.
5. To cause to be.
  The citizens made their objections clear.
  This might make you a bit woozy.
6. To cause to do.
  You’re making her cry.
  I was made to feel like a criminal.
7. To force to do.
  The teacher made the student study.
  Don’t let them make you suffer.
8. To indicate or suggest to be.
  His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
9. To recognise (without being recognised in return)
  - 2004, George Nolfi et al, Ocean's Twelve, Warner Bros. Pictures, 0:50:30,
    Linus Caldwell: Well, she just made Danny and Yen, which means in the next 48 hours the three o' your pictures are gonna be in every police station in Europe.
  - 2007 May 4, Andrew Dettmann et al, "Under Pressure", episode 3-22 of Numb3rs, 00:01:16,
    David Sinclair: (walking) Almost at Seventh; I should have a visual any second now. (rounds a corner, almost collides into Kaleed Asan) Damn, that was close.
    Don Eppes: David, he make you?
    David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
(noun)
1. Brand or kind; often paired with model.
  What make of car do you drive?
2. How a thing is made; construction.
3. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
  The camera was of German make.
4. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
5. The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  - papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed. }}
6. A person's character or disposition.
7. The declaration of the trump for a hand.
8. The closing of an electrical circuit.
9. A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
10. Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
11. Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
  - It isn't anything short of difficult to entertain someone else's pregnant fiancee.}}
12. A promotion.

(noun)
1. mate; spouse or companion.

(noun)
1. A halfpenny.

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