Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense and past participle of make.
- adj. Produced or manufactured by constructing, shaping, or forming. Often used in combination: handmade lace; ready-made suits.
- adj. Produced or created artificially: bought some made goods at the local store.
- adj. Having been invented; contrived: These made excuses of yours just won't wash.
- adj. Assured of success: a made man.
- idiom. made for Perfectly suited for: They're made for each other.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Created; wrought; fabricated; constructed.
- Artificially produced; formed independently of natural development: as, made ground (ground made up of earth from another place); a made word.
- Drawn from various sources; formed of several parts or ingredients: as, a made dish; composite; built up: as, a made mast (a mast composed of several sticks bound together by iron hoops, in contradistinction to a single-spar mast).
- Placed beyond the reach of want; assured of reward, success, fortune, or promotion; well provided for life.
- Well taught or trained, as a hunting-dog.
- Thorough; consummate; out-and-out.
- Artificial; meretricious.
- Concocted; invented; fictitious: as, a made-up tale or excuse.
- n. See mad.
- Fatigued; exhausted.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) See mad, n.
- imp. & p. p. of make.
- adj. Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in
- adj. having the sheets and blankets set in order; -- of a bed.
- adj. successful or assured of success.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. successful or assured of success
- adj. (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order
- adj. produced by a manufacturing process
Etymologies
- From Middle English made, makede, makode (preterite) and maad, mad, maked (past participle), from Old English macode (first and third person preterite) and macod, ġemacod (past participle), from macian ("to make"). More at make. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“LOU.DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: I think it's a great idea, but we've got such a complicated economy right now, it's hard to say what is made in America, the content, for example, of the three automakers are not divulged that is U. S.-made content but it's a terrific idea.”
“The low dollar-to-mark ratio has made U. S.-made cars more affordable.”
“As a result, it made little economic sense to export U. S.-made vehicles even as auto sales soared in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.”
“GM is making plans to sell the Chevrolet Malibu, a sedan made in Kansas and Michigan, and possibly other U. S.-made passenger cars in Brazil and other Latin American markets, GM executives have said.”
“Tilting his head back automatically pushed his shoulders away from the granite wall, and that gave him a feeling of falling, and that made him overreact and drop his head and push his shoulders back and _that _made him sway forward a little, which didn't worry him.”
“And I made you -- simply _made_ you, you didn't want to -- get me one of those foolish little pitchers.”
“In "It made him _sad_," _made_ does not fully express the action performed upon him -- not "_made_ him," but "_made sad_ (saddened) him.”
“LESSON XXIII. ob served ', _saw; noticed_. trans par'ent, _clear; easily seen through_. ma te'ri al, _that of which any thing is made or to be made_. ob tained', _taken from; received_. gar'ments, _articles of clothing_. verd'ure, _any green growth_.”
“These seven men _made_ England's poetry for a century; they made”
“D'ye remember that typhoon we was in an 'how, when I was that tuckered out an' so seasick I couldn't stand up, you made me pump ship an 'when I protested, you stuck a horse pistol under my nose an' _made_ me?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘made’.
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Murdered, you say?
Terms of homicide; weapons, poisons, synonyms &c.
slaughtered, goes and gets her..., done in, rubbed out, bumped off, malice aforethought, marble baluster, lead spoon, stone idol, atropine, burned, clipped and 90 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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loinfruit's Words
buddy, hungry, hug, want, you, i, mommy, school, ballet, sign, sign language, language and 170 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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TN5 Lesson 50
snapshot, what's wrong, composer, German, guitar, play, feed, enough, fed, peach, syrup, top and 21 more...
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False Friends
"False Friend" is a linguistic term for words that appear in more than one language, but with entirely different meanings. They can cause a lot of problems for the unwary tourist.
kill, fatal, lawman, sky, city, slut, alone, bless, fart, bog, arse, turd and 39 more...
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words i can see from where i am sitting
snapple, look, compare, and, golf, need, a, lawyer, made, from, the, best and 3 more...
Tweets
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tbtabby Means "maggot" in Dutch. Jul 13, 2009