makes |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of make | |
Green traffic lights look white to me, which makes them hard to distinguish from streetlights from far away. - First Usenet use via Google Groups, 9 May 1981 00:31:59-PDT, CSVAX.halbert at Berk | |
2. n. plural of make | |
I would vote against a net.auto.bmw. Problems/comments regarding all makes are of interest, to me anyway. - net.auto.bmw, Aug 19 1983, 9:49 am, Joe Pfeiffer | |
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. | |
9. v. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46: | |
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. | |
His |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his | |
2. det. Belonging to him. | |
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. | |
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) | |
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. | |
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark. | |
Sejanus his Fall | |
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. | |
The decision was his to live with. | |
7. pron. alternative spelling of His | |
8. n. plural of hi | |
buns |
1. n. plural of bun | |
2. n. (informal) buttocks | |
bun |
1. n. A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced. | |
2. n. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head. | |
3. n. (Ireland) A cupcake. | |
4. n. (slang) A drunken spree. | |
5. n. (Internet, slang) A newbie. | |
6. n. (informal, mostly, in the plural) A buttock. | |
7. n. (dialect, archaic) A rabbit or sometimes a squirrel. | |
8. v. (Caribbean, and MLE, slang) To smoke cannabis. | |
9. v. (MLE, AAVE, slang) To shoot. | |
10. n. (Caribbean, and MLE, slang) marijuana cigarette, joint | |
11. n. (Korean units of measure) A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3(nbsp)cm. | |
show |
1. v. To display, to have somebody see (something). | |
The car's dull finish showed years of neglect. | |
All he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper. | |
2. v. To bestow; to confer. | |
to show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please | |
3. v. To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. | |
4. v. To guide or escort. | |
Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome. | |
They showed us in. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear. | |
Your bald patch is starting to show. | |
At length, his gloom showed. | |
6. v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up. | |
We waited for an hour, but they never showed. | |
7. v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant. | |
8. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs. | |
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars. | |
9. v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear. | |
10. n. A play, dance, or other entertainment. | |
11. n. An exhibition of items. | |
art show; dog show | |
12. n. A demonstration. | |
show of force | |
13. n. A broadcast program/programme. | |
radio show; television show | |
14. n. A movie. | |
Let's catch a show. | |
15. n. A project or presentation. | |
Let's get on with the show. Let's get this show on the road. They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors. It was Apple's usual do | |
16. n. Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".) | |
The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show. | |
17. n. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance. | |
18. n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues. | |
He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show. | |
19. n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp. | |
20. n. (archaic) Pretence. | |
21. n. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication. | |
22. n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance. | |
23. n. (obsolete) Plausibility. | |
24. n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor. | |
up |
1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity. | |
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead. | |
2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely. | |
I will mix up the puzzle pieces. | |
Tear up the contract. | |
He really messed up. | |
Please type up our monthly report. | |
3. adv. To or from one's possession or consideration. | |
I picked up some milk on the way home. | |
The committee will take up your request. | |
She had to give up her driver's license after the accident. | |
4. adv. North. | |
I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend. | |
5. adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc. | |
Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets. | |
Turn it up, I can barely hear it. | |
Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question. | |
Cheer up, the weekend's almost here. | |
6. adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero. | |
7. adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current. | |
8. adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction. | |
9. adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman. | |
The bowler pitched the ball up. | |
10. adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice. | |
Would you like that drink up or on ice? | |
11. adv. (academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford. | |
She's going up to read Classics this September. | |
12. adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with. | |
I was up to my chin in water. | |
A stranger came up and asked me for directions. | |
13. adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite. | |
Drink up. The pub is closing. | |
Can you sum up your research? | |
The comet burned up in the atmosphere. | |
I need to sew up the hole in this shirt. | |
14. adv. Aside, so as not to be in use. | |
to lay up riches; put up your weapons | |
15. prep. Toward the top of. | |
The cat went up the tree. They walk up the steps. | |
16. prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached. | |
The information made its way up the chain of command to the general. I felt something crawling up my arm. | |
17. prep. Further along (in any direction). | |
Go up the street until you see the sign. | |
18. prep. From south to north of | |
19. prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway). | |
20. prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with. | |
Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her. | |
21. prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location). | |
22. adj. Awake. | |
I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up. | |
23. adj. Finished, to an end | |
Time is up! | |
24. adj. In a good mood. | |
I’m feeling up today. | |
25. adj. Willing; ready. | |
If you are up for a trip, let’s go. | |
26. adj. Next in a sequence. | |
Smith is up to bat. | |
27. adj. Happening; new. | |
What is up with that project at headquarters? | |
28. adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top. | |
Put the notebook face up on the table. | |
Take a break and put your feet up. | |
29. adj. Larger; greater in quantity. | |
Sales are up from last quarter. | |
30. adj. Ahead; leading; winning. | |
The home team were up by two goals at half-time. | |
31. adj. Standing. | |
Get up and give her your seat. | |
32. adj. On a higher level. | |
The new ground is up. | |
33. adj. Available; made public. | |
The new notices are up as of last Tuesday. | |
34. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair. | |
AAKK = aces up | |
QQ33 = queens up | |
35. adj. Well-informed; current. | |
I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on? | |
36. adj. (computing) Functional; working. | |
Is the server back up? | |
37. adj. (anchor, Adj_railway)(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus. | |
The London train is on the up line. | |
38. adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc. | |
39. adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass. | |
A Cosmopolitan is typically served up. | |
40. adj. (slang) Erect. | |
41. adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time) | |
42. adj. (slang) well-known; renowned | |
43. n. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. | |
Up is a good way to go. | |
44. n. A positive thing. | |
I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home. | |
45. n. An upstairs room of a two story house. | |
She lives in a two-up two-down. | |
46. v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise. | |
If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details. | |
We upped anchor and sailed away. | |
47. v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote. | |
It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President. | |
48. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb. | |
nice |
1. adj. (obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish. | |
2. adj. (now rare) Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict. | |
4. adj. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky. | |
6. adj. Respectable; virtuous. | |
What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this? | |
7. adj. Pleasant, satisfactory. | |
8. adj. Of a person: friendly, attractive. | |
9. adj. With "and", shows that the given adjective is desirable: pleasantly. | |
The soup is nice and hot. | |
10. adv. (colloquial) Nicely. | |
Children, play nice. | |
He dresses real nice. | |
11. interj. Used to signify a job well done. | |
Nice! I couldn't have done better. | |
12. interj. Used to signify approval. | |
Is that your new car? Nice! | |
13. n. niceness. | |
14. v. (transitive, computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
round |
1. adj. (physical) Shape. | |
2. adj. Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction. | |
We sat at a round table to make conversation easier. | |
3. adj. Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction. | |
The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat. | |
4. adj. Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves. | |
Our child's bed has round corners for safety. | |
5. adj. Plump. | |
6. adj. Complete, whole, not lacking. | |
The baker sold us a round dozen. | |
7. adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero. | |
One hundred is a nice round number. | |
8. adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together. | |
9. adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing. | |
a round answer; a round oath | |
10. adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style. | |
11. adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct. | |
12. adj. Large in magnitude. | |
a round sum | |
13. adj. (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person. | |
14. n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object. | |
15. n. A circular or repetitious route. | |
hospital rounds | |
The guards have started their rounds; the prisoner should be caught soon. | |
16. n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event. | |
The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two. | |
17. n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time. | |
18. n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group. | |
They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes. | |
19. n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine. | |
20. n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling). | |
21. n. (arts) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting. | |
22. n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot. | |
23. n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop. | |
24. n. (sports) A stage in a competition. | |
qualifying rounds of the championship | |
25. n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course. | |
26. n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges. | |
27. n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes. | |
All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices. | |
28. n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine. | |
29. n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder. | |
30. n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair. | |
31. n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution. | |
the round of the seasons; a round of pleasures | |
32. n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle. | |
33. n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated. | |
34. n. A circular dance. | |
35. n. Rotation, as in office; succession. | |
36. n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once. | |
37. n. An assembly; a group; a circle. | |
a round of politicians | |
38. n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole. | |
39. n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking. | |
40. n. (nautical) A round-top. | |
41. n. A round of beef. | |
42. prep. (rare in US) alternative form of around | |
I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat. | |
43. adv. alternative form of around | |
44. v. To shape something into a curve. | |
The carpenter rounded the edges of the table. | |
45. v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve. | |
46. v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out. | |
She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class. | |
47. v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number. | |
Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred. | |
48. v. To turn past a boundary. | |
Helen watched him until he rounded the corner. | |
49. v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on). | |
As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm. | |
50. v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate. | |
And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones. | |
51. v. To go round, pass, go past. | |
52. v. To encircle; to encompass. | |
53. v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection. | |
54. v. (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds. | |
55. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds. | |
56. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about. | |
57. v. (intransitive, archaic, or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel. | |
58. v. (transitive, archaic, or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper. | |
59. n. (archaic, or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering. | |
60. n. (archaic, or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song. | |