English Dictionary

make

/meɪk/

verb

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

I will make a cake for the party.

意味（1）

To build, construct, produce, or originate.

We made a bird feeder for our yard.

意味（2）

To write or compose.

I made a poem for her wedding.

意味（3）

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

make war

意味（4）

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

God made earth and heaven.

意味（5）

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

I'm making cereal for breakfast. Who wants some?

意味（6）

(intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.

To make like a deer caught in the headlights.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.

And all Israel's language about this power , except that it makes for righteousness , is approximate language

意味（8）

To constitute.

They make a cute couple.

意味（9）

(transitive) To add up to, have a sum of.

Two and four make six.

意味（10）

(transitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.

I don’t know what to make of it.

意味（11）

(transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.

This company is what made you.

意味（12）

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

The citizens made their objections clear.

意味（13）

To cause to appear to be; to represent as.

Homer makes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam.

意味（14）

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

You're making her cry.

意味（15）

(ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.

The teacher made the student study.

意味（16）

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

His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.

意味（17）

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

意味（18）

(transitive, US slang, crime, law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.

I caught sight of him two or three times and then made him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.

意味（19）

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

We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.

意味（20）

(intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).

They made westward over the snowy mountains.

意味（21）

(transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.

I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

意味（22）

(transitive) To move at (a speed).

The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.

意味（23）

To appoint; to name.

On November 15, 1396, […] Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;

意味（24）

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

Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him.

Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him. Henry Hill: Paulie's gonna make you?

意味（25）

(intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.

When my father comes back with a dark wet spot on his pants, right in front, as if he has made in his pants, he starts eating his food in great shovelfuls.

意味（26）

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

They hope to make a bigger profit.

意味（27）

(transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.

Whether, […], the construction of additional roads […] would present a case in which the exaction of prohibitory or otherwise onerous rates may be prevented, though it result in an impossibility for some or all of the roads to make expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.

意味（28）

(obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

to solace him some time, as I do when I make

意味（29）

To enact; to establish.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

意味（30）

To develop into; to prove to be.

She'll make a fine president.

意味（31）

To form or formulate in the mind.

make plans

意味（32）

To perform a feat.

make a leap

意味（33）

(intransitive) To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.

In the end, my class didn't make, which left me with a bit of free time.

意味（34）

(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.

a scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make

意味（35）

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

意味（36）

(obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.

Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?

意味（37）

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

Footman. Madam! Mr. Dorimant!

Footman. Madam! Mr. Dorimant! Lov. What makes him here?

意味（38）

(transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.

I was a young un at 'Oogli,

Shy as a girl to begin;

Aggie de Castrer she made me,

— An' Aggie was clever as sin;

Older than me, but my first un —

More like a mother she were

Showed me the way to promotion an' pay,

I was a young un at 'Oogli, Shy as a girl to begin; Aggie de Castrer she made me, — An' Aggie was clever as sin; Older than me, but my first un — More like a mother she were Showed me the way to promotion an' pay, An' I learned about women from 'er!

意味（39）

(transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.

He could see that her face was thin, proud. She looked like she'd be a hard dame to make. He didn't want just that. She'd be a hard dame to win.

意味（40）

(intransitive) Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.

The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for us was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.