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  1. transitive verb To cause to exist or happen; bring about; create: made problems for us; making a commotion.
  2. transitive verb To bring into existence by shaping, modifying, or putting together material; construct: make a dress; made a stone wall.
  3. transitive verb To form by assembling individuals or constituents: make a quorum.
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  • The Provencal has not even the formal distinction of the nouns in al , which in French make their plural in aux . —  Frederic Mistral
  • The man who is on the make is a judge of what is happening in America, not the man who has made; not the man who has emerged from the flood, not the man who is standing on the bank, looking on, but the man who is struggling for his life and for the lives of those who are dearer to him than himself. —  WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
  • And Heavy, does calling a fellow human being a derogatory name make you feel superior? —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • When you are reading printed materials in Spanish, make sure you have your Spanish-English dictionary close by. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Incredible given his age and his adjustment he has had to make from the Russian style of play to NHL / AHL style of play. smaller ice and quicker pace. —  MVN
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English maken, from Old English macian; see mag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English maken, makien (preterit makede, maked, past participle maked, maad, mad, imaked, imad, imade, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon macian (preterit macode, past participle macod) = Old Saxon macōn = OFries. makia, mekia, also matia, maitia, meitia = Middle Dutch maken, maecken, Dutch maken = Middle Low German Low German maken = Old High German machōn, mahhōn, Middle High German G. machen, make, in Old High German also fit or fasten together (not found in Icelandic or Gothic (Moesogothic); cf. Swedish maka, move, = Danish mage, manage, from Low German or G.); ef. Anglo-Saxon gemæc, fit, suitable, = OHG.gimah, Middle High German G. gemach, fit, suited, corresponding, = Icelandic makr in comparative makara, more fit or suitable, = Swedish maka = Danish mage, matching; cf. also deriv. make, mate, and match; from Teutonic √ mak; perhaps akin to Greek μηχανή, a machine: see machine.
  2. from Middle English make; from make, v.
  3. from Middle English make, from Anglo-Saxon gemaca (not *maca, as commonly cited) = Old Saxon gimaco = Old High German gimahho, masculine, gimahhā, feminine, =Icelandic maki, masculine, maka, feminine, = Swedish make, masculine, maka, feminine, = Danish mage, a companion, fellow, mate; also, in a variant form, English mate, from Middle English mate, prob. not a native English change of the orig. make, but due to Middle Dutch maet, Dutch maat, prob. from OFries. *mate; cf. the verb matia for makia, make; cf. also Anglo-Saxon gemæcca (not *mæcca), a companion, English match; with orig. collective prefix ge-, from macian, make, orig. ‘fit together’ (cf. gadling, a companion, of similar literal sense): see make, v.
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