<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.</li><li>to produce; cause to exist or happen; bring about: to make trouble; to make war.</li><li>to cause to be or become; render: to make someone happy.</li><li>to appoint or name: The president made her his special envoy.</li><li>to put in the proper condition or state, as for use; fix; prepare: to make a bed; to make dinner.</li><li>to bring into a certain form: to make bricks out of clay.</li><li>to convert from one state, condition, category, etc., to another: to make a virtue of one's vices.</li><li>to cause, induce, or compel: to make a horse jump a barrier.</li><li>to give rise to; occasion: It's not worth making a fuss over such a trifle.</li><li>to produce, earn, or win for oneself: to make a good salary; to make one's fortune in oil.</li><li>to write or compose: to make a short poem for the occasion.</li><li>to draw up, as a legal document; draft: to make a will.</li><li>to do; effect: to make a bargain.</li><li>to establish or enact; put into existence: to make laws.</li><li>to become by development; prove to be: You'll make a good lawyer.</li><li>to form in the mind, as a judgment or estimate: to make a decision.</li><li>to judge or interpret, as to the truth, nature, meaning, etc. (often followed by of): What do you make of it?</li><li>to estimate; reckon: to make the distance at ten miles.</li><li>to bring together separate parts so as to produce a whole; compose; form: to make a matched set.</li><li>to amount to; bring up the total to: Two plus two makes four.</li><li>to serve as: to make good reading.</li><li>to be sufficient to constitute: One story does not make a writer.</li><li>to be adequate or suitable for: This wool will make a warm sweater.</li><li>to assure the success or fortune of: a deal that could make or break him; Seeing her made my day.</li><li>to deliver, utter, or put forth: to make a stirring speech.</li><li>to go or travel at a particular speed: to make 60 miles an hour.</li><li>to arrive at or reach; attain: The ship made port on Friday.</li><li>to arrive in time for: to make the first show.</li><li>to arrive in time to be a passenger on (a plane, boat, bus, train, etc.): If you hurry, you can make the next flight.</li><li>to gain or acquire a position within: He made the big time.</li><li>to receive mention or appear in or on: The robbery made the front page.</li><li>to gain recognition or honor by winning a place or being chosen for inclusion in or on: The novel made the bestseller list.</li><li>to have sexual intercourse with.</li><li>to name (the trump).</li><li>to take a trick with (a card).</li><li>to fulfill or achieve (a contract or bid).</li><li>to shuffle (the cards).</li><li>to earn, as a score: The team made 40 points in the first half.</li><li>to recognize or identify: Any cop in town will make you as soon as you walk down the street.</li><li>to charge or cause to be charged with a crime: The police expect to make a couple of suspects soon.</li><li>to close (an electric circuit).</li><li>to plant and cultivate or produce (a crop): He makes some of the best corn in the country.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to cause oneself, or something understood, to be as specified: to make sure.</li><li>to show oneself to be or seem in action or behavior (usually followed by an adjective): to make merry.</li><li>to be made, as specified: This fabric makes up into beautiful drapes.</li><li>to move or proceed in a particular direction: They made after the thief.</li><li>to rise, as the tide or water in a ship.</li><li>(of a crop) to grow, develop, or mature: It looks like the corn's going to make pretty good this year.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.</li><li>the act or process of making.</li><li>quantity made; output.</li><li>the act of naming the trump, or the suit named as trump.</li><li>the closing of an electric circuit.</li><li>the excellence of a polished diamond with regard to proportion, symmetry, and finish.</li><li>identifying information about a person or thing from police records: He radioed headquarters for a make on the car's license plate.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to remodel; alter: to make over a dress; to make over a page layout.</li><li>to transfer the title of (property); convey: After she retired she made over her property to her children and moved to Florida.</li><li>to run away; depart hastily: The only witness to the accident made off before the police arrived.</li><li>to go toward; approach: to make for home.</li><li>to lunge at; attack.</li><li>to help to promote or maintain: This incident will not make for better understanding between the warring factions.</li><li>to write out or complete, as a bill or check.</li><li>to establish; prove.</li><li>to decipher; discern.</li><li>to imply, suggest, or impute: He made me out to be a liar.</li><li>to manage; succeed: How are you making out in your new job?</li></ul>