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informal
1. adj. Not formal or ceremonious.
an informal get-together
2. adj. Not in accord with the usual regulations.
an informal agreement
3. adj. Suited for everyday use.
informal clothes
4. adj. (of language) Reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage.
5. adj. (gardening) Not organized; not structured or planned.
easy
1. adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
2. adj. Requiring little skill or effort.
It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.
The teacher gave an easy test to her students.
3. adj. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
Rich people live in easy circumstances.
an easy chair
4. adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
easy manners; an easy style
5. adj. (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
He has a reputation for being easy; they say he slept with half the senior class.
6. adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
7. adj. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
The market is easy.
8. adv. In a relaxed or casual manner.
After his illness, John decided to take it easy.
9. adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.
10. adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.
11. n. Something that is easy
12. v. (rowing) (synonym of easy-oar)
making
1. n. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
2. n. Process of growth or development.
As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.
3. v. present participle of make
make
1. v. To create.
2. v. To build, construct, or produce.
We made a bird feeder for our yard.
I'll make a man out of him yet.
3. v. To write or compose.
I made a poem for her wedding.
He made a will.
4. v. 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.
5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
God made earth and heaven.
6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) 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.
7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
8. v. To constitute.
They make a cute couple.
This makes the third infraction.
One swallow does not a summer make.
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10. v. To add up to, have a sum of.
Two and four make six.
11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret.
I don’t know what to make of it.
12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
This company is what made you.
She married into wealth and so has it made.
13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
The citizens made their objections clear.
This might make you a bit woozy.
Did I make myself heard?
Scotch will make you a man.
14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
You're making her cry.
I was made to feel like a criminal.
16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
The teacher made the student study.
Don’t let them make you suffer.
17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
They made westward over the snowy mountains.
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
They made away from the fire toward the river.
22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
23. v. To move at (a speed).
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
24. v. To appoint; to name.
25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
They hope to make a bigger profit.
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
She made ten points in that game.
28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
30. v. To enact; to establish.
31. v. To develop into; to prove to be.
She'll make a fine president.
32. v. To form or formulate in the mind.
make plans
made a questionable decision
33. v. To perform a feat.
make a leap
make a pass
make a u-turn
34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of.
39. v. To have sexual intercourse with.
40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
What make of car do you drive?
41. n. How a thing is made; construction.
42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
The camera was of German make.
43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
45. n. A person's character or disposition.
46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
51. n. (slang) A promotion.
52. n. A home-made project
53. n. (basketball) A made basket.
54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
few
1. det. (preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
I was expecting lots of people at the party, but very few (=almost none) turned up. Quite a few of them (=many of them) were pleasantly surprised. I don't know how
2. det. (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
There are few people who understand quantum theory. Many are called, but few are chosen.
3. det. (meteorology of clouds) (US?) Obscuring one eighth to two eighths of the sky.
Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.
NOAA definition of the term "few clouds": An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring p
4. det. (meteorology of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
5. pron. Few people, few things.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
demands
1. n. plural of demand
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of demand
demand
1. n. The desire to purchase goods and services.
Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.
2. n. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
3. n. A forceful claim for something.
Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.
4. n. A requirement.
His job makes many demands on his time.
There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia.
5. n. An urgent request.
She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.
6. n. An order.
7. n. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time i
8. v. To request forcefully.
I demand to see the manager.
9. v. To claim a right to something.
The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.
10. v. To ask forcefully for information.
I demand an immediate explanation.
11. v. To require of someone.
This job demands a lot of patience.
12. v. (legal) To issue a summons to court.
comfortable
1. adj. Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
This is the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in.
2. adj. In a state of comfort and content.
What a great guestroom! I'll be quite comfortable here.
3. adj. (obsolete) Comforting, providing comfort; consolatory.
4. adj. Amply sufficient, satisfactory.
A comfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich.
The home team is ahead by a comfortable margin.
5. adj. (obsolete) Strong; vigorous; valiant.
6. adj. (obsolete) Serviceable; helpful.
7. n. (US) A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.

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