Crossword clues for making
making
- Add up to
- Cause to act in a specified manner
- Give rise to
- Cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- Create or manufacture a man-made product
- Create by artistic means
- Earn on some commercial or business transaction
- Earn as salary or wages
- Create or design, often in a certain way
- Reach a goal, e.g.
- Be or be capable of being changed or made into
- Perform or carry out
- Change from one form into another
- Act in a certain way so as to acquire
- Charge with a function
- Charge to be
- Achieve a point or goal, as in a sport
- Reach a destination, either real or abstract
- Institute, enact, or establish
- Carry out or commit
- Engage in
- To compose or represent
- Origination
- "___ Love," 1982 film
- Quote, part 4
- Whipping up
- Putting together
- Word with match or money
- "You're --- a big mistake"
- "You're ___ a big mistake"
- Cooking up
- Creation
- Proceed along a path
- Appear to begin an activity
- Constitute the essence of
- Amount to
- Be suitable for
- Undergo fabrication or creation
- Reach in time
- Prepare for eating by applying heat
- Imitate
- Organize or be responsible for
- Head into a specified direction
- Gather and light the materials for
- Induce to have sex
- Form by assembling individuals or constituents
- Pretend to be
- Put in order or neaten
- Consider as being
- Calculate as being
- Cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- Favor the development of
- Develop into
- Behave in a certain way
- Eliminate urine
- Assure the success of
- Cause to do
- The act that results in something coming to be
- Have a bowel movement
- Give certain properties to something
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
make \make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. made (m[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. making.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak?n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh?n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. Match an equal.]
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To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications:
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To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf.
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To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights.
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To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.
Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.
--Judg. xvi. 25.Wealth maketh many friends.
--Prov. xix. 4.I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made.
--Dryden. To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
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To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.
He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time.
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To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. (h) To put in a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.
Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
--Dryden.
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To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
--Ex. ii. 14.See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh.
--Ex. vii. 1.Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc.
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To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.
He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him.
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To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted.
I will make them hear my words.
--Deut. iv. 10.They should be made to rise at their early hour.
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To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.
And old cloak makes a new jerkin.
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To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham makes a hearty meal.
The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity.
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To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.]
Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?
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To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. ``And make the Libyan shores.'' --Dryden. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. To make a bed, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. To make a card (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. To make account. See under Account, n. To make account of, to esteem; to regard. To make away.
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To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.]
If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.
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To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller. To make believe, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. To make bold, to take the liberty; to venture. To make the cards (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. To make choice of, to take by way of preference; to choose. To make danger, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. To make default (Law), to fail to appear or answer. To make the doors, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. To make free with. See under Free, a. To make good. See under Good. To make head, to make headway. To make light of. See under Light, a. To make little of.
To belittle.
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To accomplish easily. To make love to. See under Love, n. To make meat, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. To make much of, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. To make no bones. See under Bone, n. To make no difference, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference. To make no doubt, to have no doubt. To make no matter, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference. To make oath (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. To make of.
To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news.
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To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. ``Makes she no more of me than of a slave.'' --Dryden. To make one's law (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. To make out.
To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter.
to gain sight of; to recognize; to discern; to descry; as, as they approached the city, he could make out the tower of the Chrysler Building.
To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case.
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To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. (d) to write out; to write down; -- used especially of a bank check or bill; as, he made out a check for the cost of the dinner; the workman made out a bill and handed it to him. To make over, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee. To make sail. (Naut.)
To increase the quantity of sail already extended.
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To set sail. To make shift, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. To make suit to, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. To make sure. See under Sure. To make up.
To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package.
To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel.
To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.
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To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story.
He was all made up of love and charms!
--Addison.
To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.
To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts.
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To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. To make up a face, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. To make up one's mind, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. To make way, or To make one's way.
To make progress; to advance.
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To open a passage; to clear the way.
To make words, to multiply words.
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Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction. 2 Process of growth or development. Etymology 2
vb. (present participle of make English)
WordNet
n. the act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making" [syn: devising, fashioning]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "making".
Now Ralph, he and his, being known for friends, these wild men could not make enough of them, and as it were, compelled them to abide there three days, feasting them, and making them all the cheer they might.
Close to the battle, he had as much difficulty making himself heard as those aboard Endymion.
He urged her back against the closed door and kissed her neck, the bristle from his shaven jaw abrading her and making her skin tingle.
Both paths were making absolutely world-shaking discoveries, but discoveries that spoke to each other virtually not at all.
Bismarck and Cavour seized the opportunity of making extremely useful for Germany and Italy the irrelevant and vacillating idealism and the timid absolutism of the third Napoleon.
The lower lip curved outward, making a platform that abutted at the height of perhaps a hundred feet upon a sinister-looking gorge below.
But in 1968 experimenters at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, making use of the increased capacity of technology to probe the microscopic depths of matter, found that protons and neutrons are not fundamental, either.
I think we can show that if this idea is adopted, it will open the door toward eventually making many of those reductions and achieving most of our goals.
I was ready to call it quits and give up on the reward and just spend the next few years enjoying a little pre-connubial bliss, she told me that I was all through going to Acme Fertilizer Company and would now be making my pick-ups at the Prime Fish Hatcheries.
The marchioness sat down on her sofa, and making me to do the like she asked me if I was acquainted with the talismans of the Count de Treves?
My illustrious friend still continuing to sound in my ears the imperious duty to which I was called, of making away with my sinful relations, and quoting many parallel actions out of the Scriptures, and the writings of the holy fathers, of the pleasure the Lord took in such as executed his vengeance on the wicked, I was obliged to acquiesce in his measures, though with certain limitations.
And why should this power of acquiring languages be greater at two years than at twenty, but that for many generations we have learnt to speak at about this age, and hence look to learn to do so again on reaching it, just as we looked to making eyes, when the time came at which we were accustomed to make them.
Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.
He would not be trapped in a chair, the enforced stillness making him acutely conscious of the body separating him from God.
His upper lip was furry and mobile, making his face more expressive than those of earlier adapid species.