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Sounds | mey'k |
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Rhymes | ache, awake, backache, and 56 more rhymes in eyk at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A recognizable kind. |
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Examples | "what make of car is that?" |
Synonyms | brand |
Broader | kind, sort, form, variety |
Verbs | make; make |
Meaning | The act of mixing cards haphazardly. |
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Synonyms | shuffle, shuffling |
Part of | card game, cards |
Narrower | reshuffle, reshuffling; riffle |
Broader | reordering |
Meaning | Engage in. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "make revolution" |
Synonyms | do |
Narrower | overdo, exaggerate |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Give certain properties to something. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s somebody INFINITIVE |
Examples | "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear" |
Synonyms | get |
Narrower | render; get, let, have; leave |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Meaning | Make or cause to be or to become. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "make a mess in one's office" |
Synonyms | create |
Narrower | beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth; reproduce, procreate, multiply; regenerate; clear; distill, extract, distil; derive, educe; froth, spume, suds; lay down, establish, make; puncture; twine; cleave; track; institute, bring; short-circuit, short; re-create; generate, bring forth; originate, initiate, start; give, bring about, yield; bring, work, play, wreak, make for; raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth; create by mental act, create mentally; create, make; realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate; cause, do, make; establish, give; put on, turn in; bear, turn out; create from raw material, create from raw stuff; construct, build, make; build, establish; assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together; style; strike; copy, re-create; create verbally; compose, write; choreograph; direct; film; film-make; recreate; offset; scrape; produce, bring forth; produce, bring about, give rise; press; prepare; cut; cut; raise; beat; arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke; incorporate; form, organize, organise; bring about |
See also | make up; make over |
Nouns | making |
Meaning | Cause to do. Cause to act in a specified manner. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody INFINITIVE |
Model | They make him to write the letter |
Synonyms | induce, stimulate, cause, have, get |
Narrower | decide; persuade; bring; solicit; encourage; let; lead; prompt, inspire, instigate; suborn; compel, oblige, obligate |
Meaning | Give rise to. Cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "make a stir" |
Synonyms | cause, do |
Narrower | determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate; initiate, pioneer; effect, effectuate, bring about, set up; make; occasion; provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up; engender, breed, spawn; motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite; impel, force; facilitate |
Broader | make, create |
Meaning | Create or manufacture a man-made product. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Model | Sam and Sue make the movie |
Synonyms | produce, create |
Narrower | breed; remake, refashion, redo, make over; prefabricate; underproduce; output; pulse, pulsate; clap up, clap together, slap together; custom-make, customize, customise, tailor-make; dummy, dummy up; turn out; machine; churn out; overproduce; elaborate; put out; laminate; bootleg; generate; render, yield, return, give, generate; extrude, squeeze out; smelt; reproduce; prefabricate, preassemble; fudge together, throw together; print, publish; confect; proof; cut, burn |
Similar to | create, make |
Nouns | maker; making; maker; make |
Meaning | Make, formulate, or derive in the mind. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?" |
Synonyms | draw |
Broader | create by mental act, create mentally |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
Examples | "Heat makes you sweat" |
Narrower | drive |
Broader | cause, do, make |
Meaning | Create by artistic means. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | Sam and Sue make the movie |
Synonyms | create |
Narrower | do, make; design; design |
Broader | make, create |
Similar to | produce, make, create |
Nouns | making |
Meaning | Earn on some commercial or business transaction. Earn as salary or wages. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They make the money |
Examples | "How much do you make a month in your new job?" |
Synonyms | gain, take in, clear, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in |
Narrower | eke out, squeeze out; profit, turn a profit; rake off; take home, bring home; rake in, shovel in; gross; yield, pay, bear |
Broader | get, acquire |
Similar to | make; net, sack, sack up, clear |
Meaning | Create or design, often in a certain way. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
Model | Did he make his major works over a short period of time? |
Synonyms | do |
Broader | create, make |
Contrary | unmake, undo |
Meaning | To compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting". |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "This makes a fine introduction" |
Synonyms | form, constitute |
Narrower | constellate; conglobate, conglobe; chelate; add |
Broader | constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be |
Meaning | Reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team". |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She may not make the grade" |
Synonyms | reach, get to, progress to |
Broader | achieve, accomplish, attain, reach |
Meaning | Be or be capable of being changed or made into. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father" |
Broader | become |
Meaning | Make by shaping or bringing together constituents. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones" |
Narrower | compose, compile; compile; manufacture, fabricate, construct; fashion, forge; cooper |
Broader | create from raw material, create from raw stuff |
Nouns | making |
Meaning | Perform or carry out. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call" |
Narrower | pay |
Broader | perform, execute, do |
Similar to | make, do |
Meaning | Make by combining materials and parts. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | The men make the bookshelves |
Synonyms | construct, build |
Narrower | customize, customise; revet; lock; wattle; frame, frame up; rebuild, reconstruct; groin; cantilever; raise, erect, rear, set up, put up; corduroy; channelize, channelise |
Broader | make, create |
Similar to | build |
Nouns | maker; making; make |
Meaning | Change from one form into another. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks" |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Meaning | Act in a certain way so as to acquire. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "make friends"; "make enemies" |
Broader | act, behave, do |
Similar to | gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in; have, get, make |
Meaning | Charge with a function. Charge to be. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody something |
Model | They make her vice president |
Synonyms | name, nominate |
Narrower | rename |
Broader | appoint, charge |
Meaning | Achieve a point or goal. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | have, get |
Broader | score, hit, tally, rack up |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Reach a destination, either real or abstract. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They make the water |
Synonyms | reach, attain, hit, arrive at, gain |
Entails | travel, go, move, locomote |
Narrower | catch up; scale, surmount; breast; access, get at; peak; bottom out; top out; summit; top; make; find; culminate; get through, come through; ground, run aground |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Institute, enact, or establish. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Examples | "make laws" |
Synonyms | lay down, establish |
Narrower | set, mark |
Broader | make, create |
Meaning | Carry out or commit. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "make a mistake" |
Broader | perpetrate, commit, pull |
Meaning | Add up to. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "four and four make eight" |
Category | arithmetic |
Broader | total, number, add up, come, amount |
Similar to | make; make |
Meaning | Form by assembling individuals or constituents. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Make a quorum" |
Broader | assemble, gather, get together |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Organize or be responsible for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "have, throw, or make a party" |
Synonyms | hold, throw, have, give |
Broader | direct |
Meaning | Prepare for eating by applying heat. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | The chefs make the vegetables |
Examples | "can you make me an omelette?" |
Synonyms | cook, fix, ready, prepare |
Narrower | preserve, keep; dress, dress out; put on; devil; precook; whip up, whomp up; concoct, cook up; lard |
Broader | create from raw material, create from raw stuff |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Put in order or neaten. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "make the bed"; "make up a room" |
Synonyms | make up |
Broader | tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Head into a specified direction. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | take |
Broader | head |
Meaning | Have a bowel movement. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap |
Narrower | dung |
Broader | excrete, egest, eliminate, pass |
Similar to | make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water |
Meaning | Undergo fabrication or creation. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "This wool makes into a nice sweater" |
Broader | change |
Nouns | makings; making |
Meaning | Be suitable for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Wood makes good furniture" |
Broader | be |
Nouns | makings |
Meaning | Amount to. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living" |
Broader | amount |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Constitute the essence of. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "Clothes make the man" |
Broader | constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be |
Meaning | Appear to begin an activity. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE |
Broader | look, appear, seem |
Meaning | Proceed along a path. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "make one's way into the forest" |
Synonyms | work |
Narrower | claw; jostle; bushwhack |
Broader | pass, go through, go across |
Similar to | work |
Meaning | Reach in time. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain |
Similar to | reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain |
Meaning | Gather and light the materials for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "make a fire" |
Broader | create from raw material, create from raw stuff |
Similar to | make, make up; cook, fix, ready, make, prepare |
Meaning | Induce to have sex. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | seduce, score |
Entails | roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk |
Broader | persuade |
Similar to | seduce |
Meaning | Assure the success of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "A good review by this critic will make your play!" |
Broader | guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secure |
Contrary | break |
Meaning | Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Examples | "She makes like an actress" |
Synonyms | pretend, make believe |
Narrower | go through the motions |
Broader | act, play, represent |
Similar to | feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble |
Meaning | Consider as being. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something Adjective/Noun |
Broader | see, consider, reckon, view, regard |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Calculate as being. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something Adjective/Noun |
Examples | "I make the height about 100 feet" |
Broader | estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge |
Similar to | make; draw, make |
Meaning | Cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "make my day" |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Meaning | Favor the development of. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "Practice makes the winner" |
Broader | develop |
Meaning | Develop into. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "He will make a splendid father!" |
Broader | develop, grow |
Nouns | makings |
Meaning | Behave in a certain way. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s Adjective |
Examples | "make merry" |
Broader | act, behave, do |
Meaning | Eliminate urine. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water |
Narrower | wet; stale |
Broader | excrete, egest, eliminate, pass |
Similar to | urinate; stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make |