Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, andmade scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
Imade a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs.[…] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard[…]shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”:[…]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process ofmaking an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
Wemade an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
1995,Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46:
So if your prospective school is proudly displaying that "We Are Outstanding" banner on its perimeter fence, well, that is wonderful … but do bear in mind that in all likelihood it has been awarded for results in those two subjects, rather than for its delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum which brings out the best in every child. Which is, of course, whatmakes a great primary school.
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, inThe Economist[1], volume408, number8845:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidlymake their existing business model obsolete.
To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
Homermakes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam.
He is not that goose and Ass that Valla wouldmake him.
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly itmade a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
(ditransitive, second object is a verb) Tocause (to do something); tocompel (to do something).
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they weremade to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
(ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) Toforce to do.
I caught sight of him two or three times and thenmade him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.
2004, George Nolfi et al.,Ocean's Twelve, Warner Bros. Pictures, 0:50:30:
Linus Caldwell: Well, she justmade Dannyand Yen, which means in the next 48 hours the three o' your pictures are gonna be in every police station in Europe.
2007 May 4, Andrew Dettmann et al., "Under Pressure", episode 3-22 ofNumb3rs, 00:01:16:
David Sinclair:(walking) Almost at Seventh; I should have a visual any second now.(rounds a corner, almost collides into Kaleed Asan) Damn, that was close. Don Eppes: David, hemake you? David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, inRailway Magazine, page208:
As the guard's whistle shrilled the "right away," Imade to join my companions in the train, but with a smile the driver, whose name was Abdul, bade me take the fireman's seat.
I had occasion […] tomake a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
Imade over twenty miles that day, for I was now hardened to fatigue and accustomed to long hikes, having spent considerable time hunting and exploring in the immediate vicinity of camp.
1992, Merrill Joan Gerber,The kingdom of Brooklyn, page30:
When my father comes back with a dark wet spot on his pants, right in front, as if he hasmade in his pants, he starts eating his food in great shovelfuls.
2003, Mary Anne Kelly,The Cordelia Squad, page121:
"Hemade in his pants, okay? I hope everybody's satisfied!" She flung her hat on the floor and kicked it. "He'll never come back to school now! Never! And it's all your fault!
Wales' defence had an unfamiliar look with Cardiff youngster Darcy Blake preferred to 44-cap Danny Gabbidon of Queen's Park Rangers, who did not evenmake the bench.
Bart spies an opportunity tomake a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”
(transitive) Topay, tocover (an expense);chiefly used after expressions of inability.
1889 May 1, Chief JusticeGeorge P. Raney,Pensacola & A. R. Co. v. State of Florida (judicial opinion), reproduced inThe Southern Reporter, Volume 5, West Publishing Company,p.843:
Whether,[…], the construction of additional roads[…]would present a case in which the exaction of prohibitory or otherwise onerous rates may be prevented, though it result in an impossibility for some or all of the roads tomake expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.
2005, Yuvi Shmul, Ron Peltier,Make It Big with Yuvi: How to Buy Or Start a Small Business, the Best Investment, AuthorHouse,→ISBN,page67:
At first glance, you may be able tomake rent and other overhead expenses because the business is doing well, but if sales drop can you stillmake rent?
2011, Donald Todrin,Successfully Navigating the Downturn, Entrepreneur Press,→ISBN, page194:
So you can’tmake payroll. This happens.[…]many business owners who have never confronted it before will be forced to deal with this most difficult matter of notmaking payroll.
Congress shallmake no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I was a young un at 'Oogli, Shy as a girl to begin; Aggie de Castrer shemade me, — An' Aggie was clever as sin; Older than me, but my first un — More like a mother she were Showed me the way to promotion an' pay, An' I learned about women from 'er!
The boys in the lower classes who had already dropped out of school derived much of their prestige among their peers from their skill in “making” girls.
1979, Mark Tuttle, “The Loan Shark”, inThree's Company, season 4, episode10 (television production):
The only thing she wants tomake is you!
1996,Rivers Cuomo, “Tired of Sex”, inPinkerton, performed by Weezer:
Monday night, I'mmakin' Jen Tuesday night, I'mmakin' Lyn Wednesday night, I'mmakin' Catherine Oh, why can't I be makin' love come true?
In older forms of English, when the pronounthou was in active use, and verbs used-est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verbmake had the formmakest, and hadmadest for its past tense.
Similarly, when the ending-eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the formmaketh was used.
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The cane was undoubtedly of foreignmake, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
1914,Judicious Advertising, page158:
The Royal Typewriter Company is distributing a very attractive eight page folder, announcing the Royal Number 10, the first machine of Royalmake which uses levers instead of wires to operate the type-bars.
1914, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton,Perch of the Devil[3], page274:
I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not mymake; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.
(dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
1908, Charles Thomas Jacobi,Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More Particularly to the Printing of Books[4], page331:
[…] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed.
2003, John Lutz,The Night Spider[7],→ISBN, page53:
"They ever get amake on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.
2003, Harlan Wygant,The Samurai Conspiracy: A Story of Revenge by the Author of "The Junkyard Dog.",→ISBN, page36:
"I'm sure we'll get amake on the suspect's prints by day break, so if you come down town, I'll see you get everything available. Go ahead and process the car, we won't have any need of it."
2007, P. T. Deutermann,Hunting Season: A Novel, St. Martin's Press,→ISBN:
He got out his binoculars, trying for amake on the plate, but the plate light was conveniently not working. The windows must have been tinted, because he could not see inside the van, either.
“Okay, if I could understand correctly what Oscar was saying through all the doubletalk, we've got amake on the bigwig occupant of the convoy ahead. Chaim Lieberman, Israeli Ambassador to the United States.” “Shit,” said Gardner.
Only as he climbed the steps did he mind that he hadn't even ameck upon him, and turned to jump off as the tram with a showd swung grinding down to the Harbour[…]
(East Anglia,Essex,obsolete) An agricultural tool resembling ascythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.
1797, Arthur Young,General View of the Agriculture of the County of Suffolk: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page73:
Harvest.—When left for seed, they are cut and wadded as pease, with amake. Produce.—From three to six sacks an acre.
1811, William Gooch,General view of the agriculture of the county of Cambridge; drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 142, section VI "Pease":
Harvest. Taken up by a pease-make, and left in small heaps, and turned as often as the weather may make it necessary.
Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, inWork Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume32, Summer Institute of Linguistics
