Make vs. Do

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  • 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

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