make
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪk/
ipa: [meɪkʲ]
ipa: [meːk]
ipa: /mɛk/
ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: makes
form: mak
form: makee
form: myek
Etymology: 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)
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: kind, type
text: we service all makes and models
text: Q: What make and model of car do you drive? A: It's a Buick LaCrosse.
coordinate_terms: model
glosses: Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: makeup, form, conformation, composition; form factor
text: I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.
ref: 1907, Mark Twain, A Horse's Tale:
glosses: Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
examples: text: The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: 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.
ref: 1914, Judicious Advertising, page 158:
text: The camera was of German make.
text: The camera was of recent make.
glosses: Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1914, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Perch of the Devil, page 274:
glosses: A person's character or disposition.
examples: text: […] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed.
ref: 1908, Charles Thomas Jacobi, Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More Particularly to the Printing of Books, page 331:
synonyms: making
manufacture
manufacturing
production
hypernyms: creation
glosses: The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
examples: text: In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons.
ref: 1902 September 16, “German Iron and Steel Production”, in The New York Times, page 8:
synonyms: production
output
glosses: Quantity produced, especially of materials.
examples: text: However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.
ref: 2003, D. Curtis Jamison, Perl Programming for Biologists, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
examples: text: "They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.
ref: 2003, John Lutz, The Night Spider, →ISBN, page 53:
text: "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."
ref: 2003, Harlan Wygant, The Samurai Conspiracy: A Story of Revenge by the Author of "The Junkyard Dog.", →ISBN, page 36:
text: 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.
ref: 2007, P. T. Deutermann, Hunting Season: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: “Okay, if I could understand correctly what Oscar was saying through all the doubletalk, we've got a make on the bigwig occupant of the convoy ahead. Chaim Lieberman, Israeli Ambassador to the United States.” “Shit,” said Gardner.
ref: 2008, H.A. Covington, The Brigade, →ISBN, page 660:
synonyms: ID
glosses: Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
examples: text: Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)
ref: 2004, Joseph Stilwell, Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell, →ISBN, page 94:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A promotion.
examples: text: Blue Peter "make"
ref: 1978, Biddy Baxter, Hazel Gill, Margaret Parnell, Rachel Barnes, Kate Pountney, The 'Blue Peter' Make, Cook & Look Book, page i:
glosses: A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.
examples: text: It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.
ref: 1925, Robert William Chambers, The Talkers, page 195:
text: '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.
ref: 1962 (edition), Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat: A Tale of the Caucasus
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A made basket.
examples: text: If the interrupter operated every 2 sec., the current would rise to 10 amp. and drop to zero with successive "makes" and "breaks."
ref: 1947, Charles Seymour Siskind, Electricity, page 94:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: completion
actuation
antonyms: break
glosses: The closing of an electrical circuit.
Related terms: match