make🔊

To create.

To build, construct, produce, or originate.

To write or compose.

To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.

(religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.

To prepare (food); to cook (food).

(colloquial) To behave, to act.

To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with ''for'' or ''against''.

To constitute.

To add up to, have a sum of.

(typically interrogative) To interpret.

(usually stressed) To bring into success.

(second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.

To cause to appear to be; to represent as.

(second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).

(can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.

(of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.

(bed)(of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.

(law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot. +

(colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.

(colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).

To cover (a given distance) by travelling.

To move at (a speed).

To appoint; to name.

(slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).

(euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.

To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).

To pay, to cover (an expense); {{non-gloss|chiefly used after expressions of inability.}}

To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

To enact; to establish.

To develop into; to prove to be.

To form or formulate in the mind.

To perform a feat.

To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.

(obsolete) 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''.

(obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.

(obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.

(archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective (what).

(euphemism) To take the virginity of.

To have sexual intercourse with. +

Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.

(backgammon) To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.

(brand, marque, manufacturer) Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.

(manner or style of construction) Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).

(origin of production, production, manufacture) Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.

(character or disposition of a person) A person's character or disposition.

(act or process of making something) (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. +

(quantity produced) Quantity produced, especially of materials. +

(type of software utility) (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.

(identification, recognition of identity) (slang) Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence. +

(promotion in military rank) (military) A promotion.

(homemade project) A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.

(cards) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.

(a made basket, in basketball) (basketball) A made basket.

(the closing of an electrical circuit) (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit. +

(usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present{{,}} or future target of seduction (usually female).

(dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.

(rare) A halfpenny.

(obsolete) An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.