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marque
, production
, construction
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Make
- (n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
- (v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in.
- (v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.
- (v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
- (v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
- (v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
- (v. t.) To gain, as the result of ones 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.
- (v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
- (v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.
- (v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
- (v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.
- (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.
- (n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
- (v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
- (v. t.) 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.
Synonyms:
Attain, Brand, Build, Cause, Clear, Constitute, Construct, Cook, Crap, Create, Defecate, Do, Draw, Earn, Establish, Fix, Form, Gain, Get, Give, Have, Hit, Hold, Induce, Name, Nominate, Pee, Piddle, Piss, Prepare, Produce, Puddle, Reach, Ready, Realize, Score, Seduce, Shuffle, Shuffling, Stimulate, Take, Throw, Urinate, Wee, Work,
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• Make and break
- () Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
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• Makeweight
- (n.) That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
Synonyms:
Filler,
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close, disinherit, disinclined, contempt, disclaimer, era, close shave, close down, clodhopper, commencement, dewy, destruction, despotic, deserted, clockwork, clockwise, pair, clownish, vexing, derogate, dermatosis, catholic, generator, cheep, breakage, cheeky, accountancy, cheekbone, craftily, teaching, loftiness, cornice, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Ravage, Abbreviation, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Name, Degradation, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Opposite, Abattoir, Abandonment, |
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