Meaning of make | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
2. Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
   slang
3. A halfpenny.
   Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, archaic
4. An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.
   East-Anglia, Essex, obsolete
5. a diminutive of the male given name Markus
6. To create. To build, construct, produce, or originate
7. Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
8. Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
   UK, dialectal
9. To depart in haste; run away.
10. To build, construct, produce, or originate
11. To write or compose
12. Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
13. To confess fully.
14. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action
15. A person's character or disposition.
16. To distort the features of the face; grimace.
17. To create (the universe), especially from nothing
18. The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
    dated
19. To achieve success in: have made a go of the business.
20. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
    uncountable
21. To pretend.
22. A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
23. To venture: I will not make so bold as to criticize such a scholar.
24. Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
    slang
25. To accept bets on a race, game, or contest.
26. A promotion.
    slang
27. To manage to get along with the means available: had to make do on less income.
28. A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.
29. To manage so that one's means are sufficient for one's needs.
30. Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
31. To ogle.
32. A made basket.
33. The closing of an electrical circuit.

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: kind, type”

“we service all makes and models”

“Q: What make and model of car do you drive? A: It's a Buick LaCrosse.”

“Near-synonyms: makeup, form, conformation, composition; form factor”

“I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.”

“The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.”

“The Royal Typewriter Company is distributing a very attractive eight page folder, announcing the Royal Number 10, the first machine of Royal make which uses levers instead of wires to operate the type-bars.”

“The camera was of German make.”

“The camera was of recent make.”

“I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not my make; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.”

“[…] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed.”

“In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons.”

“However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.”

“"They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.”

“"I'm sure we'll get a make on the suspect's prints by day break, so if you come down town, I'll see you get everything available. Go ahead and process the car, we won't have any need of it."”

“He got out his binoculars, trying for a make on the plate, but the plate light was conveniently not working. The windows must have been tinted, because he could not see inside the van, either.”

““Okay, if I could understand correctly what Oscar was saying through all the doubletalk, we've got a make on the bigwig occupant of the convoy ahead. Chaim Lieberman, Israeli Ambassador to the United States.” “Shit,” said Gardner.”

“Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)”

“Blue Peter "make"”

“It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.”

“'Not your make,' said the adjutant sternly and started dealing the cards with his white be-ringed hands as though he was in haste to get rid of them.”

“If the interrupter operated every 2 sec., the current would rise to 10 amp. and drop to zero with successive "makes" and "breaks."”

“To me, if I weren't going with someone and was taking pills, it would be like advertising that I'm an easy make.”

“She's your make, not mine. […] It isn't anything short of difficult to entertain someone else's pregnant fiancee.”

“Th'Elfe therewith astownd, Vpstarted lightly from his looser make, And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take.”

“Where their maids and their makes At dancing and wakes, Had their napkins and posies And the wipers for their noses”

“But then sometimes I thought, it's a black Crake That never to her-sell can get a Make.”

“Every cake hath its make; but a scrape cake hath two.”

“the last we shall have, I take it; for a make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.”

“Only as he climbed the steps did he mind that he hadn't even a meck upon him, and turned to jump off as the tram with a showd swung grinding down to the Harbour […]”

“Harvest.—When left for seed, they are cut and wadded as pease, with a make. Produce.—From three to six sacks an acre.”

“Harvest. Taken up by a pease-make, and left in small heaps, and turned as often as the weather may make it necessary.”

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