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. |
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| 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 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
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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.
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span> | b. | to take a trick with (a card). | | c. | Bridge. to fulfill or achieve (a contract or bid). | | d. | to shuffle (the cards). | | | 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. | | | 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. <
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/td> | | 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 something 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. | Electricity. 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, suggest, 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. | | | 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 sh
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e made over her property to her children and moved to Florida. | | | 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. | | 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. | | | 61. | make off with, to carry away; steal: While the family was away, thieves 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. | | | 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. | | —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. | | | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. | | | 79. | make sail, Nautical. | b. | to brace the yards of a ship that has been hove to in order to make headway. | | | 80. | make time. time (def. 52). | | 81. | make water, | b. | Nautical. (of a hull) to leak. | | | 82. | make with, 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. | | | 83. | on the make, Informal. | a. | seeking to improve one's social or financial position, usually at the expense of others or of principle. | | b. | increasing; advancing. | | c. | Slang. seeking amorous or sexual relations: The park was swarming with sailors on the make. | | | 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. | a particular form or denomination of currency. | | 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 or monies, Chiefly Law. pecuniary sums. | | 11. | property considered with reference t
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o 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.
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| | b. | first, second, or third place in a contest, esp. a horse or dog race. | | | 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. | | From Dictionary
Online Definition–adjective | 1. | operating under the direct control of
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, or connected to, a main computer. | | 2. | connected by computer to one or more other computers or networks, as through a commercial electronic information service or the Internet. | | 3. | of or denoting a business that transmits electronic information over telecommunications lines: an on-line bookstore. | | 4. | available or operating on a computer or computer network: an on-line dictionary. | | 5. | by means of or using a computer: on-line shopping. | | 6. | Radio. (of a network) supplying affiliated stations with all or a substantial part of their programming. | | 7. | Television. of or pertaining to the final editing of a videotaped program. | | 8. | done or accomplished while in operation or active service: on-line maintenance. | | 9. | located on major routes or rail lines: on-line industries. | –adverb | 10. | with or through a computer, esp. over a network. | | From Dictionary
Now Definition–adverb | 1. | at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary. | | 2. | without further delay; immediately; at once: Either do it now or not at all. | | 3. | at this time or juncture in some period under consideration or in some course of proceedings described: The case was now ready for the jury. | | 4. | at the time or moment immediately past: I saw him just now on the street. | | 5. | in these present times; nowadays: Now you rarely see horse-drawn carriages. | | 6. | under the present or existing circumstances; as matters stand: I see now what you meant. | | 7. | (used to introduce a statement or question): Now, you don't really mean that. | | 8. | (used to strengthen a command, entreaty, or the like): Now stop that! | –conjunction | 9. | inasmuch as; since: Now you're here, why not stay for dinner? | –noun | 10. | the present time or moment: Up to now no one has volunteered. | –adjective | 11. | up-to-the-minute; encompassing the latest ideas, fads, or fashions: the now look; the now generation. | —Idioms | 12. | now and again, occasionally. Also, now and then. | | 13. | now that, inasmuch as; since: Now that she is rich and famous, she is constantly being besieged by appeals for aid. | | From Dictionary
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