| slovo | definícia |
made
(mass) | made
- vyrobený |
made
(encz) | made,make/made/made v: [neprav.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
made
(encz) | made,udělal v: Zdeněk Brož |
made
(encz) | made,uděláno luke |
made
(encz) | made,vyrobeno luke |
made
(encz) | made,vyrobený Pavel Machek; Giza |
made
(encz) | made,vyrobil v: Zdeněk Brož |
made
(gcide) | Mad \Mad\, n. [AS. ma?a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and
prob. to E. moth.] (Zool.)
An earthworm. [Written also made.]
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Made
(gcide) | Made \Made\,
imp. & p. p. of Make.
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Made
(gcide) | Made \Made\, a.
Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in;
as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one
consisting of a single spar. [WordNet sense 1]
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2. having the sheets and blankets set in order; -- of a bed;
as, is the bed made?.
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3. successful or assured of success; as, a self-made man.
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Now I am a made man forever. --Christopher
Marlowe
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Made up.
(a) Complete; perfect. "A made up villain." --Shak.
(b) Falsely devised; fabricated; as, a made up story.
(c) Artificial; as, a made up figure or complexion.
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Made
(gcide) | Made \Made\, n. (Zool.)
See Mad, n.
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made
(gcide) | 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.]
1. 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:
(a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain
form; to construct; to fabricate.
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He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after
he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii.
4.
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(b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or
false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
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And Art, with her contending, doth aspire
To excel the natural with made delights.
--Spenser.
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(c) 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.
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Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.
--Judg. xvi.
25.
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Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix.
4.
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I will neither plead my age nor sickness in
excuse of the faults which I have made.
--Dryden.
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(d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make
a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
(e) 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.
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He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck
a second time. --Bacon.
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(f) 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.
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Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
--Dryden.
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2. 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.
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Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex.
ii. 14.
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See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii.
1.
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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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3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to
esteem, suppose, or represent.
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He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make
him. --Baker.
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4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause;
to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and
infinitive.
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Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually
omitted.
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I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv.
10.
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They should be made to rise at their early hour.
--Locke.
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5. 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.
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And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak.
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6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to
constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham
makes a hearty meal.
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The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,
Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller.
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7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.]
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Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole
brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden.
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8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. "And
make the Libyan shores." --Dryden.
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They that sail in the middle can make no land of
either side. --Sir T.
Browne.
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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.
(a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.]
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If a child were crooked or deformed in body or
mind, they made him away. --Burton.
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(b) 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.]
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out
at the casement. --Shak.
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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.
(a) To belittle.
(b) 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.
(a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know
what to make of the news.
(b) 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.
(a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out
the meaning of a letter.
(b) 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.
(c) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable
to make out his case.
(d) 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.)
(a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended.
(b) 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.
(a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the
amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package.
(b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference
or quarrel.
(c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a
dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.
(d) 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.
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He was all made up of love and charms!
--Addison.
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(e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.
(f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make
up accounts.
(g) 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.
(a) To make progress; to advance.
(b) To open a passage; to clear the way.
To make words, to multiply words.
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made
(wn) | made
adj 1: produced by a manufacturing process; "bought some made
goods at the local store; rope and nails"
2: (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order; "a
neatly made bed" [ant: unmade]
3: successful or assured of success; "now I am a made man
forever"- Christopher Marlowe |
made
(vera) | MADE
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
madetomeasure
(mass) | made-to-measure
- vyrobený na mieru |
madetoorder
(mass) | made-to-order
- vyrobený na objednávku |
manmade
(mass) | manmade
- umelýman-made
- umelý |
newmade
(mass) | new-made
- novovytvorený |
readymade
(mass) | ready-made
- skompletizovaný, dokončený, komerčne zhotovený |
make/made/made
(msas) | make/made/made
- make |
nahromadený
(msas) | nahromadený
- piled |
make/made/made
(msasasci) | make/made/made
- make |
nahromadeny
(msasasci) | nahromadeny
- piled |
amadeus
(encz) | Amadeus,Amadeus [jmén.] Ritchie |
custom-made
(encz) | custom-made,zhotovený na zakázku Zdeněk Brož |
factory-made
(encz) | factory-made, adj: |
got it made
(encz) | got it made, |
handmade
(encz) | handmade,ručně vyrobený Hynek Hankehandmade,rukodělný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
have it made
(encz) | have it made,nechat si to udělat IvČa |
home-made
(encz) | home-made,domácí home-made,podomácku dělaný adj: Pino |
homemade
(encz) | homemade,podomácku vyrobený Zdeněk Brožhomemade,vlastnoruční adj: Zdeněk Brož |
machine-made
(encz) | machine-made,strojově vyrobené adj: mamm |
made a mess
(encz) | made a mess,urobit nepořádek web |
made clear
(encz) | made clear,vyjasnit si v: web |
made for
(encz) | made for,vyrobeno pro web |
made for each other
(encz) | made for each other,stvořeni jeden pro druhého Ondřej Světlík |
made in
(encz) | made in,vyrobeno web |
made of
(encz) | made of,vyrobeno z luke |
made out
(encz) | made out,vyrobeno z luke |
made up
(encz) | made up,smyšlený adj: josemade up,vymyšlený adj: jose |
made use of
(encz) | made use of, adj: |
made-to-measure
(encz) | made-to-measure,vyrobený na míru luke |
made-to-order
(encz) | made-to-order,vyrobený na objednávku lukemade-to-order,zakázkový Petr Ferschmann |
made-up
(encz) | made-up,nalíčený luke |
madeira
(encz) | Madeira,Madeira n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překladMadeira,Madeira n: [zem.] ostrov luke |
madeira cake
(encz) | madeira cake,bábovka |
madeleine
(encz) | Madeleine,ženské křestní jméno n: [female] [jmén.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
madeline
(encz) | Madeline,ženské křestní jméno n: [female] [jmén.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
mademoiselle
(encz) | mademoiselle,slečna n: z francouzštiny web |
man-made
(encz) | man-made,umělý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
man-made fiber
(encz) | man-made fiber, n: |
manmade
(encz) | manmade,umělý Pavel Cvrček |
new-made
(encz) | new-made, adj: |
pomade
(encz) | pomade,pomáda n: Zdeněk Brož |
pomaded
(encz) | pomaded, adj: |
purpose-made
(encz) | purpose-made, adj: |
ready-made
(encz) | ready-made,kompletně připravený Zdeněk Brožready-made,zkompletovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
ready-made dishes
(encz) | ready-made dishes,hotová jídla |
remade
(encz) | remade,předělaný adj: Zdeněk Brožremade,přepracovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
self-made
(encz) | self-made,vlastnoruční adj: Zdeněk Brož |
self-made man
(encz) | self-made man, |
tailor-made
(encz) | tailor-made,dělaný na zakázku luketailor-made,šitý na míru luke |
unmade
(encz) | unmade,neustlaný adj: Zdeněk Brožunmade,odvolaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unmade bed
(encz) | unmade bed,rozestlaná postel web |
well-made
(encz) | well-made,dobře udělaný adj: PetrVwell-made,urostlý adj: zvíře, člověk PetrV |
amadeus
(czen) | Amadeus,Amadeus[jmén.] Ritchie |
madeira
(czen) | Madeira,Madeiran: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překladMadeira,Madeiran: [zem.] ostrov luke |
mademoiselle
(czen) | mademoiselle,French for Miss |
make/made/made
(czen) | make/made/made,madev: [neprav.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
camp-made
(gcide) | hand-crafted \hand-crafted\ adj.
made by hand or by a hand process. Contrasted to
machine-made. [Narrower terms: {camp-made ; {hand-loomed,
handwoven ; handsewn, handstitched ; {overhand, oversewn )]
Syn: handmade.
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Chamade
(gcide) | Chamade \Cha*made\, n. [F. chamade, fr. Pg. chamada, fr. chamar
to call, fr. L. clamare.] (Mil.)
A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
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They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche.
--Addison.
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custom-made
(gcide) | custom-made \custom-made\ adj.
1. made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of
manufacture. Contrasted with mass-produced,
standardized.
Syn: made-to-order.
[PJC WordNet 1.5]
2. made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing.
Contrasted with off-the-rack, ready-to-wear. a
custom-made suit
Syn: made-to-order.
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dolmades
(gcide) | dolma \dolma\ n.; pl. dolmas or dolmades. (Cookery)
a dish composed of well-seasoned rice (with nuts or currants
of minced lamb) simmered or braised in stock, stuffed into
tomatoes or green peppers, or wrapped in grape leaves; --
popular in the near east.
Syn: stuffed grape leaves.
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factory-made
(gcide) | factory-made \factory-made\ adj.
made in a factory. Contrasted with homemade. [Narrower
terms: {boughten, store-bought ; {mass-produced ]
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Fumade
(gcide) | Fumade \Fu*made"\, Fumado \Fu*ma"do\, n.; pl. Fumades,
Fumadoes. [Sp. fumodo smoked, p. p. of fumar to smoke, fr.
L. fumare. See Fume, v. i.]
A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.
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Fumades
(gcide) | Fumade \Fu*made"\, Fumado \Fu*ma"do\, n.; pl. Fumades,
Fumadoes. [Sp. fumodo smoked, p. p. of fumar to smoke, fr.
L. fumare. See Fume, v. i.]
A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.
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Handmade
(gcide) | Handmade \Hand"made`\ (h[a^]nd"m[=a]d`), a.
Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes. Contrasted with
machine-made. Handmaid |
Homemade
(gcide) | Homemade \Home"made`\, a.
Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a
private family or in one's own country. --Locke.
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Judge-made
(gcide) | Judge-made \Judge"-made`\, a.
Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to
law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of
statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new
cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often
used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation
considered as doing this. Judge-made law is contrasted with
statutory law and civil law.
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The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a
fuller and more literal sense than the law of any
succeeding century has been. --Sir
Frederick
Pollock.
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machine-made
(gcide) | machine-made \machine-made\ adj.
made by a machine. Contrasted with handmade.
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Made
(gcide) | Mad \Mad\, n. [AS. ma?a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and
prob. to E. moth.] (Zool.)
An earthworm. [Written also made.]
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imp. & p. p. of Make.
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Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in;
as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one
consisting of a single spar. [WordNet sense 1]
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2. having the sheets and blankets set in order; -- of a bed;
as, is the bed made?.
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3. successful or assured of success; as, a self-made man.
[WordNet 1.5]
Now I am a made man forever. --Christopher
Marlowe
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Made up.
(a) Complete; perfect. "A made up villain." --Shak.
(b) Falsely devised; fabricated; as, a made up story.
(c) Artificial; as, a made up figure or complexion.
[1913 Webster] MadecassMade \Made\, n. (Zool.)
See Mad, n.
[1913 Webster]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.]
1. 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:
(a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain
form; to construct; to fabricate.
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He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after
he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii.
4.
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(b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or
false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
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And Art, with her contending, doth aspire
To excel the natural with made delights.
--Spenser.
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(c) 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.
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Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.
--Judg. xvi.
25.
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Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix.
4.
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I will neither plead my age nor sickness in
excuse of the faults which I have made.
--Dryden.
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(d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make
a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
(e) 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.
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He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck
a second time. --Bacon.
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(f) 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.
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Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
--Dryden.
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2. 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.
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Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex.
ii. 14.
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See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii.
1.
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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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3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to
esteem, suppose, or represent.
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He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make
him. --Baker.
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4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause;
to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and
infinitive.
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Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually
omitted.
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I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv.
10.
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They should be made to rise at their early hour.
--Locke.
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5. 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.
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And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak.
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6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to
constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham
makes a hearty meal.
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The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,
Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller.
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7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.]
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Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole
brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden.
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8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. "And
make the Libyan shores." --Dryden.
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They that sail in the middle can make no land of
either side. --Sir T.
Browne.
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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.
(a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.]
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If a child were crooked or deformed in body or
mind, they made him away. --Burton.
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(b) 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.]
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out
at the casement. --Shak.
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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.
(a) To belittle.
(b) 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.
(a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know
what to make of the news.
(b) 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.
(a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out
the meaning of a letter.
(b) 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.
(c) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable
to make out his case.
(d) 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.)
(a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended.
(b) 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.
(a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the
amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package.
(b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference
or quarrel.
(c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a
dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.
(d) 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.
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He was all made up of love and charms!
--Addison.
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(e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.
(f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make
up accounts.
(g) 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.
(a) To make progress; to advance.
(b) To open a passage; to clear the way.
To make words, to multiply words.
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