make

Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.

Noun

  1. Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
    • Near-synonyms: kind, type
    • we service all makes and models
    • Q: What make and model of car do you drive? A: It's a Buick LaCrosse.

    Synonyms: kind type

    Coordinate Terms: model

  2. Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
    • Near-synonyms: makeup, form, conformation, composition; form factor
    • I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it. - 1907, Mark Twain, A Horse's Tale:

    Synonyms: makeup form conformation composition form factor

  3. 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. - 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss...
    • The Royal Typewriter Company is distributing a very attractive eight page folder, announcing the Royal Number 10, the first machine of Royal make which uses levers instead of wires to operate the type-bars. - 1914,...
    • The camera was of German make.
  4. 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. - 1914, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Perch of the Devil,...
  5. 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. - 1908, Charles Thomas Jacobi, Printing: A Practical Treatise on...

    Synonyms: making manufacture manufacturing production

    Hypernyms: creation

  6. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
    • In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons. - 1902 September 16, “German Iron and Steel Production”, in The New York Times, page 8:

    Synonyms: production output

  7. 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. - 2003, D. Curtis Jamison, Perl Programming for Biologists, →ISBN, page 115:
  8. 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. - 2003, John Lutz, The Night Spider, →ISBN, page 53:
    • "I'm sure we'll get a make on the suspect's prints by day break, so if you come down town, I'll see you get everything available. Go ahead and process the car, we won't have any need of it." - 2003, Harlan Wygant, The...
    • He got out his binoculars, trying for a make on the plate, but the plate light was conveniently not working. The windows must have been tinted, because he could not see inside the van, either. - 2007, P. T. Deutermann,...

    Synonyms: ID

  9. 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!) - 2004, Joseph Stilwell, Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner,...
  10. A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.
    • Blue Peter "make" - 1978, Biddy Baxter, Hazel Gill, Margaret Parnell, Rachel Barnes, Kate Pountney, The 'Blue Peter' Make, Cook & Look Book, page i:
  11. 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. - 1925, Robert William Chambers, The Talkers, page 195:
    • 'Not your make,' said the adjutant sternly and started dealing the cards with his white be-ringed hands as though he was in haste to get rid of them. - 1962 (edition), Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat: A Tale of the Caucasus
  12. A made basket.

Origin

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)

Forms

makes mak makee myek

Related

match

Noun slang

  1. 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. - 2007, Prudence Mors Rains, Becoming an Unwed Mother, →ISBN, page 26:
    • She's your make, not mine. […] It isn't anything short of difficult to entertain someone else's pregnant fiancee. - 1962, Ralph Moreno, A Man's Estate, page 12:
  2. 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. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for...
    • Where their maids and their makes At dancing and wakes, Had their napkins and posies And the wipers for their noses - 1624, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth:
    • But then sometimes I thought, it's a black Crake That never to her-sell can get a Make. - 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale:

Origin

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.

Forms

makes

Derived

make-hawk on the make put the make on

Noun Ireland, Northern England

  1. 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. - 1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock; Or, the Cavalier:
    • Only as he climbed the steps did he mind that he hadn't even a meck upon him, and turned to jump off as the tram with a showd swung grinding down to the Harbour […] - 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon...

Origin

Uncertain.

Forms

makes meck

Noun East Anglia, Essex

  1. 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. - 1797, Arthur Young, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Suffolk: Drawn Up for the...
    • Harvest. Taken up by a pease-make, and left in small heaps, and turned as often as the weather may make it necessary. - 1811, William Gooch, General view of the agriculture of the county of Cambridge; drawn up for the...

Origin

Origin unclear.

Forms

makes

Related

make-koshi

Verb

  1. To create.
    • We made a bird feeder for our yard.
    • I'll make a man out of him yet.
    • He makes deodorants.

    Synonyms: fabricate artifice assemble betimber build build up compile construct edify erect extruct fashion form knock up make manufacture produce put together put up raise rear timber upbuild

    1. To build, construct, produce, or originate.

    2. To write or compose.

      • I made a poem for her wedding.
      • He made a will.

    3. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.

      • make war
      • They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
      • But whether or not the VCR makes a complete comeback, VHS enthusiasts agree that these tapes occupy an irreplaceable place in culture. - 2021 February 20, Hannah Selinger, “Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?”, in The New...

    4. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.

      • God made earth and heaven.
      • Thine are these orbs of light and shade; ⁠Thou madest Life in man and brute; ⁠Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Prologue”, in In Memoriam,...

    5. (transitive) To prepare (food); to cook (food).

      • I'm making cereal for breakfast. Who wants some?
  2. To behave, to act.
    • To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
    • They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
    • He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
  3. 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 - 1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma:
    • Follow after the things which make for peace. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 14:19:
    • Considerations infinite Do make against it. - c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio),...
  4. To constitute.
    • They make a cute couple.
    • This makes the third infraction.
    • One swallow does not a summer make.
  5. To add up to, have a sum of.
    • Two and four make six.
  6. To interpret.
    • I don’t know what to make of it.
    • They couldn't make anything of the inscription.
    • What time do you make it?
  7. To bring into success.
    • This company is what made you.
    • She married into wealth and so has it made.
    • who makes or ruins with a smile or frown - 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
  8. To cause to be.
    • The blisters on my foot made it a problem to walk without a cane.
    • The citizens made their objections clear.
    • This might make you a bit woozy.

    Synonyms: render

  9. 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.
    • 1709–1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning He is not that goose and Ass that Valla would make him.
    • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little...
  10. To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
    • You're making her cry.
    • I was made to feel like a criminal.
    • In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were...
  11. To force to do.
    • The teacher made the student study harder.
    • Don’t let them make you suffer.
  12. To indicate or suggest to be.
    • His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.

Forms

makes making made maked no-table-tags glossary make makest madest maketh - makeing mak makee myek

Derived

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