make
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动词 v.
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名词 n.
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Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
— Near-synonyms: kind, type
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An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.
— Harvest.—When left for seed, they are cut and wadded as pease, with a make. Produce.—From three to six sacks an acre.
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A halfpenny.
— the last we shall have, I take it; for a make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.
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Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
— To me, if I weren't going with someone and was taking pills, it would be like advertising that I'm an easy make.
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Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
— Th'Elfe therewith astownd, Vpstarted lightly from his looser make, And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take.
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Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
— Near-synonyms: makeup, form, conformation, composition; form factor
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Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
— The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
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A person's character or disposition.
— I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not my make; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.
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The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
— […] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed.
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Quantity produced, especially of materials.
— In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons.
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A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
— However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.
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Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
— "They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.
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A promotion.
— Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)
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A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.
— Blue Peter "make"
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Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
— It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.
- A made basket.
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The closing of an electrical circuit.
— If the interrupter operated every 2 sec., the current would rise to 10 amp. and drop to zero with successive "makes" and "breaks."
动词 v.
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To create.; To build, construct, produce, or originate.
— We made a bird feeder for our yard.
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To create.; To write or compose.
— I made a poem for her wedding.
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To create.; To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
— make war
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To create.; To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
— God made earth and heaven.
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To create.; To prepare (food); to cook (food).
— I'm making cereal for breakfast. Who wants some?
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To behave, to act.
— To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
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To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
— And all Israel's language about this power, except that it makes for righteousness, is approximate language
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To constitute.
— They make a cute couple.
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To add up to, have a sum of.
— Two and four make six.
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To interpret.
— I don’t know what to make of it.
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To bring into success.
— This company is what made you.
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To cause to be.
— The blisters on my foot made it a problem to walk without a cane.
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To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
— Homer makes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam.
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To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
— You're making her cry.
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To force to do.
— The teacher made the student study harder.
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To indicate or suggest to be.
— His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
- To cover neatly with bedclothes.
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To recognise, identify, spot.
— I caught sight of him two or three times and then made him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.
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To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
— We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
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To proceed (in a direction).
— They made westward over the snowy mountains.
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To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
— I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
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To move at (a speed).
— The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
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To appoint; to name.
— On November 15, 1396,[…]Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;
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To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
— Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him. Henry Hill: Paulie's gonna make you?
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To defecate or urinate.
— When my father comes back with a dark wet spot on his pants, right in front, as if he has made in his pants, he starts eating his food in great shovelfuls.
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To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
— They hope to make a bigger profit.
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To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
— Whether, […], the construction of additional roads […] would present a case in which the exaction of prohibitory or otherwise onerous rates may be prevented, though it result in an impossibility for some or all of the roads to make expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.
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To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
— ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman to solace him some time, as I do when I make
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To enact; to establish.
— Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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To develop into; to prove to be.
— She'll make a fine president.
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To study or train so as to become (a profession); to grow up to be (something).
— He'll make a doctor one day.
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To form or formulate in the mind.
— make plans
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To perform a feat.
— make a leap
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To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
— In the end, my class didn't make, which left me with a bit of free time.
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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.
— a scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make
- To increase; to augment; to accrue.
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To be engaged or concerned in.
— Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?
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To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
— Footman. Madam! Mr. Dorimant! Lov. What makes him here?
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To take the virginity of.
— I was a young un at 'Oogli, Shy as a girl to begin; Aggie de Castrer she made me, — An' Aggie was clever as sin; Older than me, but my first un — More like a mother she were Showed me the way to promotion an' pay, An' I learned about women from 'er!
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To have sexual intercourse with.
— He could see that her face was thin, proud. She looked like she'd be a hard dame to make. He didn't want just that. She'd be a hard dame to win.
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Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
— The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for us was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
- To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.
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bad facts make bad law
beauty won't make the pot boil
cannot make it
clothes don't make the man
clothes make the man
demake
doctors make the worst patients
don't get your honey where you make your money
don't make me laugh
empty barrels make the most noise
empty cans make the most noise
empty vessels make the most noise
empty vessels make the most sound
enough to make a cat laugh
enough to make the angels weep
fine feathers make fine birds
foremake
good fences make good neighbors
good fences make good neighbours
handmake
hard cases make bad law
how the sausage is made
if I may make so bold
it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home
it takes all kinds to make a world
it takes all sorts to make a world
it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
it takes two to make a quarrel
know how many beans make five
lawmaking
life is what you make it
Mackem
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
mackly
makable
make a better door than a window
make a big thing out of
makeability
makeable
make a book
make a break for it
make a career of
make a career out of
make a case
make a case for
make a cat laugh
make a clean breast
make a dash for it
make a day of it
make a deal
make a decision
make a dent
make a difference
make a dollar out of fifteen cents
make a face
make a federal case out of something
make a fist of
make a fool of
make a fool out of
make a fortune
make after
make a fuss
make against
make a good fist of
make a go of
make a gra
make a habit of
make a hash of
make-ahead
make a hole
make a joke of
make a killing
make a leg
make a light
make a lip
make a living
make all the difference
make all the running
make a long arm
make a mark
make a meal of
make a meal out of
make amends
make a mistake
make a mockery of
make a monkey of
make a monkey out of
make a mountain out of a molehill
make a move
make a muscle
make a name for oneself
make an appearance
make an ass of
make-and-break
make an effort
make an entrance
make an errand
make an example of
make an exception
make an exhibition of oneself
make an honest woman
make an honest woman out of
make a night of it
make an impression
make an offer
make a noise in the world
make a nuisance of oneself
make a pass
make a pig of oneself
make a pig out of oneself
make a pig's ear of
make a pile
make a play
make a point
make a production out of
make a promise
make a public spectacle of oneself
make a rabbit bite a bulldog
make a run for it
make a scene
make a show of oneself
make a silk purse of a sow's ear
make a spectacle of oneself
make a splash
make a stand
make a statement
make a stick for one's own back
make a stink
make a time
make a Virginia fence
make a virtue of necessity
makeaway
make away
make away with
make a wish
make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
make baby Jesus cry
make bank
makebate
make beautiful music together
make-before-break
make belief
make believe
make-believe
make biscuits
make bold
make bones about
make book
make both ends meet
make bricks without clay
make bricks without straw
make bricks without straws
make capital out of
make certain
make common cause
make conscience
make contact with
make conversation
make-debate
make default
make do
makedom
make down
make due
make ends meet
make every effort
make eyes
make faces
make fair weather
makefast
make fast
make fetch happen
make file
make fish of one and flesh of another
make fish of one and fowl of another
make flexible
make for
make foul water
make-fray
make free of
make free with
make friendly
make friends
make fun of
makegame
make game of
make garden
makegood
make good
make good on
make good one's running
make good time
make ground
make happen
make hard work of
make haste
make hay
make hay while the sun shines
make head against
make head nor tail of
make head or tail of
make headway
make heavy going of
make heavy weather
make heavy weather of
make history
make interesting
make into
make it
make it big
make it count
make it do or do without
make it interesting
make it make sense
make it one's business
make it one's life
make it rain
make it snappy
make it so
make it so that
make-king
make known
make land
make landfall
make lemonade
makeless
make light of
make light work of
make like
make like a baby and head out
make like a banana and split
make like a tree
make like a tree and leave
makeline
make little of
make love
make love to the camera
make matters worse
make me
make mention
make mention of
make merry
make mileage out of
make mincemeat of
make mincemeat out of
make moan
make mockery of
make money
make mouths
make much
make muffins
make music
make neither head nor tail of
make news
make nice
make no bones about
make noise
make noises
make no mistake
make no odds
make no secret of
make nothing of
make of
make off
make off with
make old bones
make one
make one's bed
make one's bed and lie in it
make one's bones
make one's bow
make oneself at home
make oneself clear
make oneself scarce
make one's entrance
make one's exit
make one's hand
make one's manners
make one's mark
make one's number
make one's own
make one's own luck
make one's presence felt
make one's toenails curl
make one's toes curl
make one's toilet
make one's way
make or break
make-or-break
make out
make out like a bandit
make out of
make out with
make over
makepeace
make peace
make pigs and whistles of
make pigs and whistles of something
make position
make pretend
make quick work of
make-ready
make right
make room
make sail
make semblant
make sense
make shift
makeshift
make ship
make shit of
make shit shake
make short work of
make some noise
make someone hard to catch
make someone's acquaintance
make someone's blood boil
make someone's day
make someone's ears sad
make someone's flesh crawl
make someone's flesh creep
make someone's hair curl
make someone's hair stand on end
make someone's head spin
make someone's jaw drop
make someone's skin crawl
make someone's skin creep
make someone's teeth itch
make someone's toenails curl
make someone's toes curl
make something of
make something of oneself
makespan
make-sport
make sport of
make strange
make streaks
make strides
makestrife
make sure
make terms
make the angels blush
make the bald man cry
make the bed
make the best of
make the best of a bad bargain
make the best of a bad job
make the best of one's way
make the case for
make the cheese more binding
make the cut
make the difference
make the dust fly
make the feathers fly
make the first move
make the fur fly
make the grade
make the headlines
make the most of
make the news
make the passes
make the perfect the enemy of the good
make the riffle
make the road shorter
make the rounds
make the running
make the weather
make the welkin ring
make the world go around
make the world go round
make the wrong turn at Albuquerque
make things interesting
make this world go around
make this world go round
make tick
make time
make time with
make to order
make to stock
make tracks
make tracks for
make trial of
make up
make up to
make use
make vintage
make water
make waves
make way
makeweight
make whole
make whoopee
make with
make-work
make wudu
make yourself at home
make yourselves at home
many a mickle makes a muckle
many hands make light work
matchless
matchmake
meddle and make
meddle nor make
meddle or make
mismake
new-make
newmake
not make any bones about
one swallow does not a spring make
one swallow does not make a spring
one swallow does not make a summer
one swallow doesn't a spring make
one swallow doesn't a summer make
one swallow doesn't make a spring
one swallow doesn't make a summer
overmake
premake
put two and two together and make five
remake
short accounts make long friends
short reckonings make long friends
stuff dreams are made of
tailor make
tailor-make
the cowl does not make the monk
they don't make them like that anymore
time to make the donuts
troublemaker
two wrongs don't make a right
two wrongs make a right
unmake
unmakeable
upmake
ve haf vays of making you talk
wanton kittens make sober cats
we all make mistakes
what do you make the time
what time do you make it
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
you make the bed you lie in
you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
make-hawk
on the make
put the make on
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词源 1
From Middle English maken, from Old English macian (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ- (“to knead, mix, make”).
Related to match.
Cognates
* Scots mak (“to make”)
* Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”)
* West Frisian meitsje (“to make”)
* Dutch maken (“to make”)
* Dutch Low Saxon maken (“to make”)
* German Low German maken (“to make”)
* German machen (“to make, do”)
* Danish mage (“to make, arrange (in a certain way)”)
* Latin mācerō, macer
* Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)
Related to match.
Cognates
* Scots mak (“to make”)
* Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”)
* West Frisian meitsje (“to make”)
* Dutch maken (“to make”)
* Dutch Low Saxon maken (“to make”)
* German Low German maken (“to make”)
* German machen (“to make, do”)
* Danish mage (“to make, arrange (in a certain way)”)
* Latin mācerō, macer
* Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)
词源 2
From Middle English make, imake, ȝemace, from Old English ġemaca (“a mate, an equal, companion, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *gamakō, from Proto-Germanic *gamakô (“companion, comrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to knead, oil”). Reinforced by Old Norse maki (“an equal”).
Cognate with Icelandic maki (“spouse”), Swedish make (“spouse, husband”), Danish mage (“companion, fellow, mate”). Doublet of match.
Cognate with Icelandic maki (“spouse”), Swedish make (“spouse, husband”), Danish mage (“companion, fellow, mate”). Doublet of match.
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Uncertain.
词源 4
Origin unclear.
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