Make Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art. |
| 2. | to produce; cause to exist or happen; bring about: to make trouble; to make war. |
| 3. | to cause to be or become; render: to make someone happy. |
| 4. | to appoint or name: The President made her his special envoy. |
| 5. | to put in the proper condition or state, as for use; fix; prepare: to make a bed; to make dinner. |
| 6. | to bring into a certain form: to make bricks out of clay. |
| 7. | to convert from one state, condition, category, etc., to another: to make a virtue of one's vices. |
| 8. | to cause, induce, or compel: to make a horse jump a barrier. |
| 9. | to give rise to; occasion: It's not worth making a fuss over such a trifle. |
| 10. | to produce, earn, or win for oneself: to make a good salary; to make one's fortune in oil. |
| 11. | to write or compose: to make a short poem for the occasion. |
| 12. | to draw up, as a legal document; draft: to make a will. |
| 13. | to do; effect: to make a bargain. |
| 14. | to establish or enact; put into existence: to make laws. |
| 15. | to become by development; prove to be: You'll make a good lawyer. |
| 16. | to form in the mind, as a judgment or estimate: to make a decision. |
| 17. | to judge or interpret, as to the truth, nature, meaning, etc. (often fol. by of): What do you make of it? |
| 18. | to estimate; reckon: to make the distance at ten miles. | |
| 19. | to bring together separate parts so as to produce a whole; compose; form: to make a matched set. |
| 20. | to amount to; bring up the total to: Two plus two makes four. That makes an even dozen. |
| 21. | to serve as: to make good reading. |
| 22. | to be sufficient to constitute: One story does not make a writer. |
| 23. | to be adequate or suitable for: This wool will make a warm sweater. |
| 24. | to assure the success or fortune of: a deal that could make or break him; Seeing her made my day. |
| 25. | to deliver, utter, or put forth: to make a stirring speech. |
| 26. | to go or travel at a particular speed: to make 60 miles an hour. |
| 27. | to arrive at or reach; attain: The ship made port on Friday. Do you think he'll make 80? |
| 28. | to arrive in time for: to make the first show. |
| 29. | to
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arrive in time to be a passenger on (a plane, boat, bus, train, etc.): If you hurry, you can make the next flight. |
| 30. | Informal. to gain or acquire a position within: He made the big time. |
| 31. | to receive mention or appear in or on: The robbery made the front page. |
| 32. | to gain recognition or honor by winning a place or being chosen for inclusion in or on: The novel made the bestseller list. He made the all-American team three years in a row. |
| 33. | Slang. to have sexual intercourse with. |
| 34. | Cards.
| b. | to take a trick with (a card). |
| c. | Bridge. to fulfill or achieve (a contract or bid). |
| d. | to shuffle (the cards). |
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| 35. | to earn, as a score: The team made 40 points in the first half. |
| 36. | Slang. (esp. in police and underworld use) | a. | to recognize or identify: Any cop in town will make you as soon as you walk down the street. |
| b. | to charge or cause to be charged with a crime: The police expect to make a couple of suspects soon. |
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| 37. | to close (an electric circuit). |
| 38. | South Midland and Southern U.S. to plant and cultivate or produce (a crop): He makes some of the best corn in the country. |
–verb (used without object) | 39. | to cause oneself, or something understood, to be as specified: to make sure. |
| 40. | to show oneself to be or seem in action or behavior (usually fol. by an adjective): to make merry. |
| 41. | to be made, as specified: This fabric makes up into beautiful drapes. |
| 42. | to move or proceed in a particular direction: They made after the thief. |
| 43. | to rise, as the tide or water in a ship. |
| 44. | South Midland and Southern U.S. (of a crop) to grow, develop, or mature: It looks like the corn's going to make pretty good this year. |
| 45. | make down, Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to rain or snow: It's making down hard. |
| 46. | make fast, Chiefly Nautical. to fasten or secure. |
| 47. | make shut, Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to close: Make the door shut. |
–noun | 48. | the style or manner in which som
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ething is made; form; build. |
| 49. | production with reference to the maker; brand: our own make. |
| 50. | disposition; character; nature. |
| 51. | the act or process of making. |
| 52. | quantity made; output. |
| 53. | Cards. the act of naming the trump, or the suit named as trump. |
| 54. | Electri
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city. the closing of an electric circuit. |
| 55. | Jewelry. the excellence of a polished diamond with regard to proportion, symmetry, and finish. |
| 56. | Slang. identifying information about a person or thing from police records: He radioed headquarters for a make on the car's license plate. |
—Verb phrases| 57. | make out, | a. | to write out or complete, as a bill or check. |
| d. | to imply, sugge
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st, or impute: He made me out to be a liar. |
| e. | to manage; succeed: How are you making out in your new job? |
| f. | Slang. to engage in kissing and caressing; neck. |
| g. | Slang. to have sexual intercourse. |
| h. | Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to turn off or extinguish (esp. a light or fire): Make the light out. |
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| 58. | make over, | a. | to remodel; alter: to make over a dress; to make over a page layout. |
| b. | to transfer the title of (property); convey: After she retired she made over her property to her children and moved to Florida. |
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| 59. | make for, | a. | to go toward; approach: to make for home. |
| c. | to help to promote or maintain: This incident will not make for better understanding between the warring factions. |
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| 60. | make off, | a. | to run away; depart hastily: The only witness to the accident made off before the police arrived. |
| b. | Nautical. to stand off from a coast, esp. a lee shore. |
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| 61. | make off with, to carry away; steal: While the family was away, thi
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eves made off with most of their valuables. |
| 62. | make on, Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to turn on, light, or ignite (esp. a light or fire): Make the light on. |
| 63. | make up, | a. | (of parts) to constitute; compose; form. |
| b. | to put together; construct; compile. |
| d. | Also, make up for. to compensate for; make good. |
| f. | to put in order; arrange: The maid will make up the room. |
| h. | to settle amicably, as differences. |
| i. | to become reconciled, as after a quarrel. |
| j. | Printing. to arrange set type, illustrations, etc., into columns or pages. |
| k. | to dress in appropriate costume and apply cosmetics for a part on the stage. |
| m. | to adjust or balance, as accounts; prepare, as statements. |
| n. | Education. to repeat (a course or examination that one has failed). |
| o. | Education. to take an examination that one had been unable to take when first given, usually because of absence. |
| p. | to specify and indicate the layout or arrangement of (columns, pages, etc., of matter to be printed). |
| q. | Atlantic States. (of the weather or clouds) to develop or gather: It's making up for a storm. |
| r. | Atlantic States. (of the sea) to become turbulent: If the sea makes up, row toward land. |
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| 64. | make up to, | a. | Informal. to try to become friendly with; fawn on. |
| b. | to make advances to; flirt with: He makes up to every new woman in the office. |
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—Idioms| 65. | make a play for, to try to get: He made a play for his brother's girlfriend. They made a play for control of the company's stock. |
| 66. | make as if or as though, Informal. to act as if; pretend: We will make as if to leave, then come back and surprise him. |
| 67. | make away with, | a. | to steal: The clerk made away with the cash and checks. |
| b. | to destroy; kill: He made away with his enemies. |
| d. | to consume, drink, or eat completely: The boys made away with the contents of the refrigerator. |
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| 68. | make believe, to pretend; imagine: The little girl dressed in a sheet and made believe she was a ghost. |
| 69. | make bold or so bold, to have the temerity; be so rash; dare: May I make so bold as to suggest that you stand when they enter? |
| 70. | make book, Slang. | a. | to take bets and give odds. |
| b. | to make a business of this. |
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| 71. | make colors, Nautical. to hoist an ensign, as on board a warship. |
| 72. | make do, to function, manage, or operate, usually on a deprivation level with minimal requirements: During the war we had no butter or coffee, so we had to make do without them. |
| 73. | make good, | a. | to provide restitution or reparation for: The bank teller made good the shortage and was given a light sentence. |
| b. | to succeed: Talent and training are necessary to make good in some fields. |
| c. | to fulfill: He made good on his promise. |
| d. | Navigation. to compute (a course) allowing for leeway and compass deviation. |
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| 74. | make heavy weather, | a. | Nautical. to roll and pitch in heavy seas. |
| b. | to progress laboriously; struggle, esp. to struggle needlessly: I am making heavy weather with my income tax return. |
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| 75. | make it, | a. | Informal. to achieve a specific goal: to make it to the train; to make it through college. |
| b. | Informal. to succeed in general: He'll never make it in business. |
| c. | Slang. to have sexual intercourse. |
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| 76. | make it so, Nautical. strike the ship's bell accordingly: said by the officer of the watch when the hour is announced. |
| 77. | make like, Informal. to try or pretend to be like; imitate: I'm going to go out and make like a gardener. |
| 78. | make one's manners, Southern U.S. | a. | to perform an appropriate or expected social courtesy. |
| b. | Older Use. to bow or curtsy. |
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| 79. | make sail, Nautical.
| b. | to brace the yards of a ship that has been hove to in order to make headway. |
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| 80. | make time. time (def. 52). |
| 81. | make water,
| b. | Nautical. (of a hull) to leak. |
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| 82. | make with,
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Slang. | a. | to operate; use: Let's make with the feet. |
| b. | to bring about; provide or produce: He makes with the big ideas, but can't follow through. |
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| 83. | on the make, Informal. | a. | seeking to improve one's social or financial position, usually at the expense of others or of principle. |
| c. | Slang. seeking amorous or sexual relations: The park was swarming with sailors on the make. |
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| 84. | put the make on, Slang. to make sexual overtures to. |
From Dictionary
Money Definition–noun | 1. | any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits. |
| 3. | gold, silver, or other metal in pieces of convenient form stamped by public authority and issued as a medium of exchange and measure of value. |
| 4. | any article or substance used as a medium of exchange, measure of wealth, or means of payment, as checks on demand deposit or cowrie. |
| 5. | <
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| 7. | capital to be borrowed, loaned, or invested: mortgage money. |
| 8. | an amount or sum of money: Did you bring some money? |
| 9. | wealth considered in terms of money: She was brought up with money. |
| 10. | moneys
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or monies, Chiefly Law. pecuniary sums. |
| 11. | property considered with reference to its pecuniary value. |
| 12. | pecuniary profit: not for love or money. |
–adjective | 13. | of or pertaining to money. |
| 14. | used for carrying, keeping, or handling money: Have you seen my little money purse? |
| 15. | of or pertaining to capital or finance: the money business. |
—Idioms| 16. | for one's money, Informal. with respect to one's opinion, choice, or wish: For my money, there's nothing to be gained by waiting. |
| 17. | in the money, Informal. | a. | having a great deal of money; affluent: You can see he's in the money by all those clothes he buys. |
| b. | first, second, or third place in a contest, esp. a horse or dog race. |
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| 18. | make money, to make a profit or become rich: You'll never make money as a poet. |
| 19. | on the money, Informal. | a. | at just the exact spot or time; on target: The space shuttle landed on the money at 9:55 a.m. |
| b. | exhibiting or done with great accuracy or expertise: His weather forecasts are always on the money. |
Also, right on the money. |
| 20. | put one's money where one's mouth is, Informal. to prove the truth of one's words by actions or other evidence; demonstrate one's sincerity or integrity: Instead of bragging about your beautiful house, put your money where your mouth is and invite us over to see it. |
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