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                    Noun
                    
                a recognizable kind; "there''s a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?"
                
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                the act of mixing cards haphazardly
                
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                engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution"
                
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                give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don''t make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"
                
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                make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one''s office"; "create a furor"
                
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                cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
                
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                give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
                
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                create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
                
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                make, formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?"
                
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                compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat"
                
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                create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
                
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                earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"
                
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                create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"
                
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                to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"
                
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                reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade"
                
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                be or be capable of being changed or made into; "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father"
                
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                make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"
                
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                perform or carry out; "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call"
                
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                make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
                
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                change from one form into another; "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks"
                
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                act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies"
                
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                charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club"
                
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                achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"
                
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                reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
                
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                institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
                
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                carry out or commit; "make a mistake"; "commit a faux-pas"
                
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                form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum"
                
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                organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"
                
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                put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room"
                
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                head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains"
                
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                have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
                
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                undergo fabrication or creation; "This wool makes into a nice sweater"
                
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                be suitable for; "Wood makes good furniture"
                
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                add up to; "four and four make eight"
                
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                amount to; "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living"
                
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                constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man"
                
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                appear to begin an activity; "He made to speak but said nothing in the end"; "She made as if to say hello to us"
                
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                proceed along a path; "work one''s way through the crowd"; "make one''s way into the forest"
                
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                reach in time; "We barely made the plane"
                
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                gather and light the materials for; "make a fire"
                
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                prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
                
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                induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"
                
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                assure the success of; "A good review by this critic will make your play!"
                
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                represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
                
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                consider as being; "It wasn''t the problem some people made it"
                
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                calculate as being; "I make the height about 100 feet"
                
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                cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; "make my day"
                
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                favor the development of; "Practice makes the winner"
                
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                develop into; "He will make a splendid father!"
                
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                behave in a certain way; "make merry"
                
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            eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"
                Synonyms
                    arrive at
                    attain
                    brand
                    bring in
                    build
                    ca-ca
                    cause
                    clear
                    constitute
                    construct
                    cook
                    crap
                    create
                    defecate
                    do
                    draw
                    earn
                    establish
                    fix
                    form
                    gain
                    get
                    get to
                    give
                    have
                    hit
                    hold
                    induce
                    lay down
                    make believe
                    make up
                    make water
                    micturate
                    name
                    nominate
                    pass water
                    pee
                    pee-pee
                    piddle
                    piss
                    prepare
                    pretend
                    produce
                    progress to
                    puddle
                    pull in
                    reach
                    ready
                    realise
                    realize
                    relieve oneself
                    score
                    seduce
                    shit
                    shuffle
                    shuffling
                    spend a penny
                    stimulate
                    stool
                    take
                    take a crap
                    take a leak
                    take a shit
                    take in
                    throw
                    urinate
                    wee
                    wee-wee
                    work
            
            More General Terms
                    accomplish
                    achieve
                    acquire
                    act
                    add up
                    alter
                    amount
                    appear
                    appoint
                    approximate
                    arrive at
                    assemble
                    assure
                    attain
                    be
                    become
                    behave
                    cause
                    change
                    charge
                    clean up
                    come
                    commit
                    comprise
                    consider
                    constitute
                    create
                    create by mental act
                    create from raw material
                    create from raw stuff
                    create mentally
                    develop
                    direct
                    do
                    egest
                    eliminate
                    ensure
                    estimate
                    excrete
                    execute
                    form
                    gain
                    gather
                    gauge
                    get
                    get together
                    go across
                    go through
                    grow
                    guarantee
                    guess
                    head
                    hit
                    insure
                    judge
                    kind
                    look
                    make
                    make up
                    modify
                    neaten
                    number
                    pass
                    perform
                    perpetrate
                    persuade
                    play
                    pull
                    rack up
                    reach
                    reckon
                    regard
                    reordering
                    represent
                    score
                    secure
                    see
                    seem
                    sort
                    square away
                    straighten
                    straighten out
                    tally
                    tidy
                    tidy up
                    total
                    variety
                    view
            
            More Specific Terms
                    access
                    actualise
                    actualize
                    actuate
                    add
                    arouse
                    assemble
                    bear
                    beat
                    beget
                    blast
                    bootleg
                    bottom out
                    breast
                    breed
                    bring
                    bring about
                    bring forth
                    bring home
                    bring up
                    build
                    burn
                    bushwhack
                    call down
                    call forth
                    cantilever
                    catch up
                    cause
                    channelise
                    channelize
                    chelate
                    chop
                    choreograph
                    churn out
                    clap together
                    clap up
                    claw
                    clear
                    cleave
                    come through
                    compel
                    compile
                    compose
                    concoct
                    confect
                    conjure
                    conjure up
                    construct
                    cook up
                    cooper
                    copy
                    corduroy
                    create
                    create by mental act
                    create from raw material
                    create from raw stuff
                    create mentally
                    create verbally
                    culminate
                    customise
                    customize
                    custom-make
                    cut
                    decide
                    deglaze
                    derive
                    design
                    determine
                    devil
                    direct
                    distil
                    distill
                    do
                    dress
                    dress out
                    drive
                    dry-wall
                    dummy
                    dummy up
                    dung
                    educe
                    effect
                    effectuate
                    eke out
                    elaborate
                    elicit
                    encourage
                    engender
                    enkindle
                    erect
                    escallop
                    establish
                    evoke
                    exaggerate
                    extract
                    extrude
                    fabricate
                    facilitate
                    fashion
                    father
                    film
                    film-make
                    find
                    fire
                    flambe
                    force
                    forge
                    form
                    frame
                    frame up
                    froth
                    fudge together
                    generate
                    get
                    get at
                    get through
                    give
                    give rise
                    go through the motions
                    grind
                    groin
                    gross
                    ground
                    have
                    impel
                    incite
                    incorporate
                    influence
                    initiate
                    inspire
                    instigate
                    institute
                    invoke
                    jostle
                    keep
                    kick up
                    kindle
                    laminate
                    lard
                    lay down
                    lead
                    leave
                    let
                    lock
                    machine
                    make
                    make for
                    make over
                    manufacture
                    mark
                    mold
                    mother
                    motivate
                    move
                    multiply
                    obligate
                    oblige
                    occasion
                    offset
                    organise
                    organize
                    originate
                    output
                    overdo
                    overproduce
                    pay
                    peak
                    persuade
                    piece
                    pioneer
                    play
                    preassemble
                    precook
                    prefabricate
                    prepare
                    preserve
                    press
                    print
                    procreate
                    produce
                    profit
                    prompt
                    proof
                    propel
                    provoke
                    publish
                    pulsate
                    pulse
                    puncture
                    put forward
                    put on
                    put out
                    put together
                    put up
                    raise
                    rake in
                    rake off
                    realise
                    realize
                    rear
                    rebuild
                    reconstruct
                    recreate
                    re-create
                    redo
                    refashion
                    regenerate
                    regulate
                    remake
                    rename
                    render
                    reproduce
                    reshuffle
                    reshuffling
                    return
                    revet
                    riffle
                    run aground
                    scale
                    scallop
                    scrape
                    set
                    set up
                    shape
                    shell
                    short
                    short-circuit
                    shovel in
                    sire
                    slap together
                    smelt
                    solicit
                    spawn
                    spume
                    squeeze out
                    stale
                    start
                    stir
                    strike
                    style
                    suborn
                    substantiate
                    suds
                    summit
                    surmount
                    tack
                    tack together
                    tailor-make
                    take home
                    throw together
                    top
                    top out
                    track
                    turn a profit
                    turn in
                    turn out
                    twine
                    underproduce
                    wattle
                    wet
                    whip up
                    whomp up
                    work
                    wreak
                    write
                    yield