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Definition of Make

Make A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. To be engaged or concerned in. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. 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. To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage. To increase; to augment; to accrue. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form. Related Definitions: Abide, Abode, About, Accrue, Acquisition, Act, Active, Adjective, Advantage, Against, Agent, Amount, An, And, Appear, Arrive, Artificial, As, Ascertain, At, Attain, Augment, Be, Become, Being, Bring, By, Bill, Calculation, Capable, Cause, Certain, Changed, Cider, Clothing, Companion, Compel, Complain, Complaint, Compose, Computation, Concerned, Condition, Constitute, Constitution, Constrain, Construct, Construction, Contribute, Create, Day, Deed, Desirable, Desired, Distance, Do, Effect, Engaged, Enumeration, Equivalent, Error, Esteem, Execute, Exist, Fabricate, False, Fashion, Fashioned, Fast, Find, Followed, For, Force, Form, Formalities, Forward, Frame, Furnish, Gain, Get, Given, Go, Good, Happen, Have, He, His, Home, Hour, Husband, In, Increase, Infinitive, Interfere, Into, It, Known, Large, Like, Loss, Made, Make, Manage, Manner, Mate, Material, Measurement, Meddle, Move, Musician, Money, Note, Noun, Number, Occasion, Of, Office, Often, One, Or, Over, Part, Perform, Phrase, Poetry, Proceed, Produce, Profit, Pronoun, Public, Put, Reach, Reckoning, Record, Represent, Require, Requisite, Result, Shape, Ship, Sight, Simple, Something, Sour, Sportsmen, State, Story, Structure, Such, Suppose, Sweet, Ten, Tend, Texture, That, The, Thrive, Tiger, To, Toward, Travel, Unnatural, Up, Used, Verb, Versify, Vinegar, Warm, Weighing, Wife, Will, With, Wool, Write

Make Quotations I make the kind of music I like. Duncan Sheik I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes. Sara Teasdale I really love to make movies. Sean Penn I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big. Imran Khan I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour. Busby Berkeley

Make Translations make in Afrikaans is maak, doen, pleeg, vervaardig make in Dutch is maken, doen, bedrijven make in German is anfertigen, Fabrikat, machen, mache, Herstellung make in Latin is creo make in Spanish is hacer, marca, manufacturar, confeccionar

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