make - English dictionary definition

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1. Make  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
2. Make  To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.
3. Make  To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
4. Make  To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
5. Make  To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.
6. Make  To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
7. Make  To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.
8. Make  To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.
9. Make  To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.
10. Make  To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.