Make (verb)
To create.
Make (verb)
To build, construct, or produce.
“We made a bird feeder for our yard.”
“I’ll make a man out of him yet.”
Make (verb)
To write or compose.
“I made a poem for her wedding.”
“He made a will.”
Make (verb)
To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
“make war”
“They were just a bunch of ne’er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.”
Make (verb)
To behave, to act.
“To make like a deer caught in the headlights.”
“They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.”
“He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.”
Make (verb)
To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
Make (verb)
To constitute.
“They make a cute couple.”
“This makes the third infraction.”
“One swallow does not a summer make.”
Make (verb)
To bring into success.
“This company is what made you.”
“She married into wealth and so has it made.”
Make (verb)
To cause to be.
“The citizens made their objections clear.”
“This might make you a bit woozy.”
“Did I make myself heard?”
“Scotch will make you a man.”
Make (verb)
To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
Make (verb)
To create as, earth, heaven, stars, etc.
“God made earth and heaven.”
Make (verb)
To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
“You’re making her cry.”
“I was made to feel like a criminal.”
Make (verb)
To force to do.
“The teacher made the student study.”
“Don’t let them make you suffer.”
Make (verb)
To cover neatly with bedclothes.
Make (verb)
To recognise, identify.
Make (verb)
To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
“We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.”
Make (verb)
To proceed (in a direction).
“They made westward over the snowy mountains.”
“Make for the hills! It’s a wildfire!”
“They made away from the fire toward the river.”
Make (verb)
To cover (a given distance) by travelling. from 16thc.
Make (verb)
To move at (a speed). from 17thc.
“The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.”
“This baby can make 220 miles an hour.”
Make (verb)
To appoint; to name.
Make (verb)
To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
Make (verb)
To defecate or urinate.
Make (verb)
To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
“They hope to make a bigger profit.”
“He didn’t make the choir after his voice changed.”
“She made ten points in that game.”
Make (verb)
To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
Make (verb)
To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
Make (verb)
To enact; to establish.
Make (verb)
To develop into; to prove to be.
“She’ll make a fine president.”
Make (verb)
To form or formulate in the mind.
“make plans”
“made a questionable decision”
Make (verb)
To perform a feat.
“make a leap”
“make a pass”
“make a u-turn”
Make (verb)
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.
Make (verb)
To increase; to augment; to accrue.
Make (verb)
To be engaged or concerned in.
Make (verb)
To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
Make (verb)
To take the virginity of.
Make (noun)
Brand or kind; often paired with model. t
“What make of car do you drive?”
Make (noun)
How a thing is made; construction. s
Make (noun)
Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. s
“The camera was of German make.”
Make (noun)
Quantity produced, especially of materials. s
Make (noun)
The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. s
Make (noun)
A person’s character or disposition. s
Make (noun)
The declaration of the trump for a hand.
Make (noun)
The closing of an electrical circuit. s
Make (noun)
A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
Make (noun)
Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. s
Make (noun)
Past or future target of seduction (usually female). s
Make (noun)
A promotion.
Make (noun)
A home-made project
Make (noun)
A made basket.
Make (noun)
Mate; a spouse or companion.
Make (noun)
A halfpenny. from 16th c.
Do (verb)
A syntactic marker
Do (verb)
A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
“Do you go there often?”
Do (verb)
A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
“I do not go there often.”
“Do not listen to him.”
Do (verb)
A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
“But I do go sometimes.”
“Do tell us.”
“It is important that he do come see me.”
Do (verb)
A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliaries such as “be”.
“I play tennis; she does too.”
Do (verb)
To perform; to execute.
“all you ever do is surf the Internet;”
“what will you do this afternoon?”
Do (verb)
To cause, make (someone) (do something).
Do (verb)
To suffice.
“it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do;”
“this will do me, thanks.”
Do (verb)
To be reasonable or acceptable.
“It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.”
Do (verb)
To have (as an effect).
“The fresh air did him some good.”
Do (verb)
To fare; to succeed or fail.
“Our relationship isn’t doing very well;”
“how do you do?”
Do (verb)
To have as one’s job.
“What does Bob do? — He’s a plumber.”
Do (verb)
To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
“”Don’t forget to do your report” means something quite different depending on whether you’re a student or a programmer.”
Do (verb)
To cook.
“I’ll just do some eggs.”
Do (verb)
To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
“Let’s do New York also.”
Do (verb)
To treat in a certain way.
Do (verb)
To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
Do (verb)
To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
Do (verb)
(see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
“I did five years for armed robbery.”
Do (verb)
To impersonate or depict.
“They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.”
Do (verb)
To kill.
Do (verb)
To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
Do (verb)
To punish for a misdemeanor.
“He got done for speeding.”
“Teacher’ll do you for that!”
Do (verb)
To have sex with. (See also do it)
Do (verb)
To cheat or swindle.
“That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!”
Do (verb)
To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
“the novel has just been done into English;”
“I’m going to do this play into a movie”
Do (verb)
To finish.
“Aren’t you done yet?”
Do (verb)
To work as a domestic servant (with for).
Do (verb)
Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
Do (verb)
To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
Do (verb)
To make or provide.
“Do they do haircuts there?”
“Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?”
Do (verb)
To injure (one’s own body part).
Do (verb)
To take drugs.
“I do cocaine.”
Do (verb)
to have a purpose or reason
“What’s that car doing in our swimming pool?”
Do (noun)
A party, celebration, social function.
“We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.”
Do (noun)
A hairdo.
“Nice do!”
Do (noun)
Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don’ts).
Do (noun)
A deed; an act.
Do (noun)
Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
Do (noun)
A cheat; a swindler.
Do (noun)
An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
Do (noun)
A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
Do (adverb)
abbreviation of ditto