(māk) v. made, mak·ing v.t.
1. To bring about the existence of by the shaping or combining of materials; produce; build; construct; fashion.
2. To bring about; cause: Don't make trouble.
3. To bring to some state or condition; cause to be: The wind made him cold.
4. To appoint or assign; elect: They made him captain.
5. To form or create in the mind, as a plan.
6. To compose or create, as a poem or piece of music.
7. To understand or infer to be the meaning or significance; interpret; think: What do you make of it?
8. To put forward; advance: to make an offer.
9. To present, as for record; utter or express: to make a declaration.
10. To obtain for oneself; earn; accumulate: to make a fortune.
11. To amount to; add up to: Four quarts make a gallon.
12. To bring the total to: That makes five attempts.
13. To develop into; become: He made a good soldier.
14. To accomplish; effect or form: to make an agreement.
15. To estimate to be; reckon: He made the height twenty feet.
16. To induce or force; compel: He made me do it!
17. To draw up, enact, or frame, as laws, testaments, etc.
18. To prepare for use, as a bed.
19. To afford or provide: This brandy makes good drinking.
20. To be the essential element or determinant of: Stone walls do not a prison make.
21. To cause the success of: His speech made him politically.
22. To traverse; cover: to make fifty miles before noon.
23. To travel at the rate of: to make fifty miles per hour.
24. To arrive at; reach: to make Boston.
25. To board before departure: to make a train.
26. To earn so as to count on a score: to make a touchdown.
27. Electr. To complete (a circuit).
28. Colloq. To win a place on: to make the team.
29. In card games: a To declare as trump. b To capture a trick with (a card). c To shuffle: to make the deck.
30. In bridge, to win (a bid).
31. U. S. Slang. To seduce.
—v.i.
32. To cause something to assume a specified condition: to make ready; to make fast.
33. To act or behave in a certain manner: to make merry.
34. To start: They made to go.
35. To go or extend in some direction: with to or toward.
36. To flow, as the tide; rise, as water.
—to make as if (or as though) To pretend.
—to make away with
1. To carry off; steal.
2. To get rid of; destroy.
—to make believe To pretend.
—to make do To get along with what is available, especially with an inferior substitute.
—to make for
1. To go toward.
2. To attack; assail.
3. To have effect on; contribute to.
—to make heavy weather Naut. To roll and pitch, as a ship in a storm.
—to make it To succeed in doing something.
—to make off To leave suddenly; run away.
—to make off with To steal.
—to make out
1. To see; discern.
2. To comprehend; understand.
3. To establish by evidence.
4. To fill out; draw up, as a bank draft.
5. To be successful; manage.
—to make over
1. To put into new form; renovate.
2. To transfer title or possession of.
—to make up
1. To compose; compound, as a prescription.
2. To be the parts of; comprise: These elements make up the structure.
3. To settle differences and become friendly again: to kiss and make up.
4. To devise; invent; fabricate: to make up an answer.
5. To supply what is lacking in.
6. To compensate for; atone for.
7. To settle; decide: to make up one's mind.
8. Printing To arrange, as lines, into columns or pages.
9. To put cosmetics on (the face).
10. In education, to repeat (an examination or course one has failed), or take (an examination) one has missed.
—to make up to Colloq. To make a show of friendliness and affection toward; flatter.
—noun
1. The manner in which parts or qualities are grouped to constitute a whole; constitution; structure; shape.
2. The operation or product of manufacture; brand: a new make of automobile.
3. The amount produced; yield.
4. The closing or completion of an electrical circuit.
5. A declaration (def. 3).
—on the make Slang
1. Greedy for profit; interested only in making money.
2. Eager for amorous conquest. [OE macian] Synonyms (verb): become, cause, compel, compose, constitute, constrain, construct, create, do, effect, establish, execute, fabricate, fashion, force, frame, get, manufacture, occasion, perform, reach, require, shape. Make is essentially causative; to the idea of cause all its various senses may be traced (compare synonyms for CAUSE noun). To make is to cause to exist, or to cause to exist in a certain form or in certain relations; it thus includes the idea of create. Make includes also the idea of compose, constitute; as, The parts make up the whole. Similarly, to cause a voluntary agent to do a certain act is to make him do it, or compel him to do it, compel fixing the attention more on the process, make on the accomplished fact. See COMPEL, GET, PRODUCE, REACH. Antonyms: see synonyms for ABOLISH, BREAK, DEMOLISH.

(māk) noun Obs.
A mate. [OE gemaca]