How to pronounce “make”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To create.
• (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• To constitute.
• (transitive) To add up to, have a sum of.
• (transitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• (transitive, US slang, crime, law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
• (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling. [from 16thc.]
• (transitive) To move at (a speed). [from 17thc.]
• To appoint; to name.
• (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• To enact; to establish.
• To develop into; to prove to be.
• To form or formulate in the mind.
• To perform a feat.
• (intransitive) To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
• (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.
• (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
• (intransitive) Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
• (transitive, backgammon) To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.
• [Noun]
• Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
• Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
• Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
• A person's character or disposition.
• (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
• (slang) Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
• (slang, military) A promotion.
• A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.
• (card games) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
• (basketball) A made basket.
• (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.

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