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Make (verb)
To create.
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Make (verb)
To build, construct, or produce.
“We made a bird feeder for our yard.”
“I’ll make a man out of him yet.”
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Make (verb)
To write or compose.
“I made a poem for her wedding.”
“He made a will.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Make (verb)
To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
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Make (verb)
To constitute.
“They make a cute couple.”
“This makes the third infraction.”
“One swallow does not a summer make.”
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Make (verb)
To bring into success.
“This company is what made you.”
“She married into wealth and so has it made.”
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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.”
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Make (verb)
To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
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Make (verb)
To create as, earth, heaven, stars, etc.
“God made earth and heaven.”
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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.”
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Make (verb)
To force to do.
“The teacher made the student study.”
“Don’t let them make you suffer.”
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Make (verb)
To cover neatly with bedclothes.
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Make (verb)
To recognise, identify.
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Make (verb)
To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
“We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.”
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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.”
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Make (verb)
To cover (a given distance) by travelling. from 16thc.
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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.”
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Make (verb)
To appoint; to name.
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Make (verb)
To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
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Make (verb)
To defecate or urinate.
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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.”
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Make (verb)
To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
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Make (verb)
To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
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Make (verb)
To enact; to establish.
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Make (verb)
To develop into; to prove to be.
“She’ll make a fine president.”
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Make (verb)
To form or formulate in the mind.
“make plans”
“made a questionable decision”
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Make (verb)
To perform a feat.
“make a leap”
“make a pass”
“make a u-turn”
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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.
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Make (verb)
To increase; to augment; to accrue.
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Make (verb)
To be engaged or concerned in.
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Make (verb)
To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
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Make (verb)
To take the virginity of.
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Make (noun)
Brand or kind; often paired with model. t
“What make of car do you drive?”
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Make (noun)
How a thing is made; construction. s
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Make (noun)
Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. s
“The camera was of German make.”
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Make (noun)
Quantity produced, especially of materials. s
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Make (noun)
The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. s
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Make (noun)
A person’s character or disposition. s
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Make (noun)
The declaration of the trump for a hand.
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Make (noun)
The closing of an electrical circuit. s
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Make (noun)
A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
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Make (noun)
Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. s
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Make (noun)
Past or future target of seduction (usually female). s
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Make (noun)
A promotion.
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Make (noun)
A home-made project
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Make (noun)
A made basket.
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Make (noun)
Mate; a spouse or companion.
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Make (noun)
A halfpenny. from 16th c.
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Do (verb)
A syntactic marker
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Do (verb)
A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
“Do you go there often?”
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Do (verb)
A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
“I do not go there often.”
“Do not listen to him.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Do (verb)
To perform; to execute.
“all you ever do is surf the Internet;”
“what will you do this afternoon?”
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Do (verb)
To cause, make (someone) (do something).
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Do (verb)
To suffice.
“it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do;”
“this will do me, thanks.”
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Do (verb)
To be reasonable or acceptable.
“It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.”
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Do (verb)
To have (as an effect).
“The fresh air did him some good.”
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Do (verb)
To fare; to succeed or fail.
“Our relationship isn’t doing very well;”
“how do you do?”
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Do (verb)
To have as one’s job.
“What does Bob do? — He’s a plumber.”
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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.”
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Do (verb)
To cook.
“I’ll just do some eggs.”
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Do (verb)
To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
“Let’s do New York also.”
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Do (verb)
To treat in a certain way.
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Do (verb)
To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
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Do (verb)
To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
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Do (verb)
(see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
“I did five years for armed robbery.”
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Do (verb)
To impersonate or depict.
“They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.”
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Do (verb)
To kill.
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Do (verb)
To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
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Do (verb)
To punish for a misdemeanor.
“He got done for speeding.”
“Teacher’ll do you for that!”
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Do (verb)
To have sex with. (See also do it)
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Do (verb)
To cheat or swindle.
“That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!”
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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”
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Do (verb)
To finish.
“Aren’t you done yet?”
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Do (verb)
To work as a domestic servant (with for).
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Do (verb)
Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
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Do (verb)
To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
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Do (verb)
To make or provide.
“Do they do haircuts there?”
“Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?”
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Do (verb)
To injure (one’s own body part).
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Do (verb)
To take drugs.
“I do cocaine.”
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Do (verb)
to have a purpose or reason
“What’s that car doing in our swimming pool?”
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Do (noun)
A party, celebration, social function.
“We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.”
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Do (noun)
A hairdo.
“Nice do!”
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Do (noun)
Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don’ts).
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Do (noun)
A deed; an act.
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Do (noun)
Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
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Do (noun)
A cheat; a swindler.
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Do (noun)
An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
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Do (noun)
A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
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Do (adverb)
abbreviation of ditto