The Collaborative International Dictionary
make believe \make" be*lieve`\, v. i. To pretend; -- often used with that, but often having the that omitted; as, he made believe he didn't hear her; or he made believe that he didn't hear her.
Wiktionary
imaginary; conjured in someone's imagination, especially when imagined by a child n. The act of pretending that what is imaginary is real. v
(context idiomatic English) To pretend or imagine.
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Make Believe is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released on May 10, 2005. Bolstered by the Top 10 hit single " Beverly Hills", the album was Weezer's biggest chart album peaks yet, hitting #11 in the UK, #1 in Canada, and #2 in the US, where it went gold quickly, and eventually platinum. The song also was the band's first Grammy nomination, nominated for Best Rock Song. Despite this, Make Believe has received mixed reviews from critics and fans, though it has remained a consistent seller. As of December 2007, Make Believe has sold 1,215,000 units in the US alone.
Make Believe features the band's first two songs to top the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, the aforementioned "Beverly Hills" and " Perfect Situation".
Make Believe may refer to:
- Make believe, a form of role-playing
Make Believe was an indie rock band, initially formed as a touring version of Joan of Arc. The band was initially composed of eccentric voiced singer Tim Kinsella, guitarist Sam Zurick, bassist Bobby Burg, and drummer/keyboardist Nate Kinsella. After 3 months of touring as Joan Of Arc the quartet returned home and decided to begin writing new songs with a more aggressive approach. Following a self-titled 5 track EP, their first full-length Shock of Being was released on October 4, 2005, followed by Of Course in 2006.
On June 20, 2007, Tim Kinsella announced on the Joan of Arc website that he was no longer a member of Make Believe. He credited his departure to feeling a lessening connection to the "rock band lifestyle", and to a desire for spending more time with his wife. The same announcement stated that Kinsella had "a pile of new songs to pull from for a new Joan of Arc record." This entry implied that the band would continue without Kinsella, but Kinsella has since returned to the band at the outset of their spring 2008 tour. The band then disbanded on the same year.
Make Believe is the first album by Platinum Weird. To tie in with the band's back-story, it was marketed as a "lost" album from 1974, with vocals credited to fictional lead singer Erin Grace. In reality, the album was written and recorded in 2005 and 2006, with vocals by Kara DioGuardi. The album features Ringo Starr on two tracks.
In a September 2011 interview, Dave Stewart stated that "the actual Platinum Weird record never actually came out!" Originally, the bonus disc that came in Best Buy copies of the album was the actual album that was supposed to be released. It was out of fun that Stewart and DioGuardi "recorded some versions of these songs as if it was the early ’70s" for a documentary to accompany the fictional back story of the album. Interscope Records sent the wrong collection of songs, the "1974" recordings, out to reviewers to review as the album. This series of events led to the "lost recordings" being released as the album, while the actual Platinum Weird album was never released, except as a rare bonus disc.
"Make Believe" is a hit song by the American rock band Toto, released as the second single from their triple platinum 1982 album Toto IV. It peaked at #19 in Cash Box magazine and at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The song was featured on the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
Make Believe is the third album by torch song singer Jessica Molaskey, accompanied by an all-star musical group that includes Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli. Guest singer Adam Guettel joins her for a duet on Glad to Be Unhappy.
"Make Believe" is the second single from singer Sibel Redžep, recorded by her on her 2008 album The Diving Belle. The song was released as a downloadable-only single in July 2008 and reached #56 on downloads alone after only one week. The song has been is connected to the Ronald McDonald foundation in Sweden where Sibel is an ambassador, the video for the song shows clips of disadvantaged children in graphic boxes around Sibel.
Make Believe (foaled 19 February 2012) is a British-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. After winning both his races as a two-yea-old he developed into a top-class performer in 2015, recording Group One victories in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains and the Prix de la Foret.
"Make Believe" is a show tune from the 1927 Broadway musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
In the show, it is first sung as a duet by the characters Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome riverboat gambler, and the teenage Magnolia Hawks, an aspiring performer and daughter of the show boat captain, soon after their meeting in Act I. It reveals that they are smitten with each other almost immediately upon meeting and sets the tone for the contrasts between the ideal “make believe” world of the young lovers and the harsh realities of life that they will encounter throughout the story.
In Act II, Ravenal sings it to his little daughter Kim, just before he deserts her and Magnolia because of his compulsive gambling. He tells Kim to sing it whenever she is lonely and to pretend he has never been away.
The song was introduced by Norma Terris and Howard Marsh. It was not performed in the 1929 part-talkie film of Show Boat. For film, it was sung by Irene Dunne and Allan Jones in the 1936 version of the musical, by Tony Martin and Kathryn Grayson in the 1946 Kern biopic Till the Clouds Roll By, and by Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson in the 1951 version of Show Boat.
In the 1951 film, instead of singing it to Kim just before he leaves, Ravenal sings it to her when he meets her for the first time after being away for several years - the exact reverse of the situation in the original show and the 1936 film version. He has finally returned and now asks her to pretend that he has never been away.
The song has since become a standard and been recorded by numerous musical artists, including Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee & Patrice Munsel. Barbra Streisand recorded the song for The Third Album.
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Usage examples of "make believe".
Should I make believe that you are the only man I ever slept with?
And we make believe, forsooth, that our failure to acquit ourselves in converse with our equals of either sex does but proceed from guilelessness.
And when there was no meat to give, Mit-sah would keep the team at a distance and make believe to give meat to Lip-lip.
I sat before it, and kept it as lively as possible, as the hours wore away, and tried to make believe that I was ruminating on the ancient greatness of Bologna and its famous university, some of whose chairs had been occupied by women, and upon the fact that it was on a little island in the Reno, just below here, that Octavius and Lepidus and Mark Antony formed the second Triumvirate, which put an end to what little liberty Rome had left.
He can make believe that the last few years of his life have never happened.