To build, construct, produce, or originate. / To write or compose. / To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.

Brand or kind; model. / Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. / Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. / A person's character or disposition.

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

(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

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

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make

plural of make

(idiomatic) To set out to go (somewhere); to move towards. / (idiomatic) To tend to produce or result in. / (idiomatic, rare) To confirm, favour, strengthen (an opinion, theory, etc.).

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it.

(informal) Actively seeking a romantic encounter or relationship.