Usually means: Create or form by combining.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word make:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. make: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. make: Merriam-Webster
  3. make, make: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. make: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. make: Collins English Dictionary
  6. make: Vocabulary.com
  7. Make, make, make, make, make: Wordnik
  8. make: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. make: Wiktionary
  10. make: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. make: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. make: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Make, make: Dictionary.com
  14. make (n.), make (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. make: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Make (Unix), Make (magazine), Make (software), Make, The Make (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Make: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. make: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. make: Rhymezone
  20. make: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. make: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. make: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Make: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. make: FreeDictionary.org
  25. make: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. make: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. make: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. make: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. make: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms
  4. Make (disambiguation), make: Legal dictionary
  5. make: Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Make: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. make: CCI Computer
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. Make (auto), Make (automobile), Make (disambiguation), Make (software), Make (vehicle), make: Encyclopedia
  5. Make (car): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAKE: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. make: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. make, make, make: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ma'ke, make: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Make: Dan's Poker

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To create.
verb:  To build, construct, produce, or originate.
verb:  To write or compose.
verb:  To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
verb:  (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
verb:  (transitive) To prepare (food); to cook (food).
verb:  (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
verb:  (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
verb:  To constitute.
verb:  (transitive) To add up to, have a sum of.
verb:  (transitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
verb:  (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
verb:  (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
verb:  To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
verb:  (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
verb:  (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
verb:  (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
verb:  (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
verb:  (transitive, US slang, crime, law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
verb:  (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
verb:  (transitive) To move at (a speed).
verb:  To appoint; to name.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
verb:  (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
verb:  (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
verb:  To enact; to establish.
verb:  To develop into; to prove to be.
verb:  To form or formulate in the mind.
verb:  To perform a feat.
verb:  (intransitive) To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
verb:  (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
verb:  (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
verb:  (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
verb:  (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
verb:  (intransitive) Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
verb:  (transitive, backgammon) To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.
noun:  Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
noun:  Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
noun:  Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
noun:  A person's character or disposition.
noun:  (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
noun:  (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
noun:  (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
noun:  (slang) Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
noun:  (slang, military) A promotion.
noun:  A homemade project.
noun:  (card games) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
noun:  (basketball) A made basket.
noun:  (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
noun:  (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
noun:  (UK, dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
noun:  (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
noun:  (East Anglia, Essex, obsolete) An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.

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