Make vs Call - What's the difference?
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To create.
#To construct or produce.
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#*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
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#*:I made 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.
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#*:Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
#To write or compose.
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#To bring about.
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To behave, to act.
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(lb) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for'' or ''against .
*(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
*:It makes for his advantage.
*(Bible), (w) xiv.19:
*:Follow after the things which make for peace.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Considerations infinite / Do make against it.
To constitute.
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*2014 , A teacher, "
*: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, what makes a great primary school.
*1995 , Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work , p.46:
*:Style alone does not make a writer.
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*:We made 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.
To interpret.
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To bring into success.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:who makes or ruins with a smile or frown
To cause to be.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
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*:He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made 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.
To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
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*: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 were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
To force to do.
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To indicate or suggest to be.
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To cover neatly with bedclothes.
To recognise, identify.
*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), (The Big Sleep) , Penguin 2011, p.33:
*:I caught sight of him two or three times and then made him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.
*2004 , George Nolfi et al., (w, Ocean's Twelve) , Warner Bros. Pictures, 0:50:30:
*:Linus Caldwell: Well, she just made Danny and 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 of , 00:01:16:
*:David Sinclair: (walking) Almost at Seventh; I should have a visual any second now. Damn, that was close.
Don Eppes: David, he make you?
David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
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*Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
*:They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.
To proceed (in a direction).
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(lb) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make 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.}}
*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Chapter VIII:
*:I made 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.
(lb) To move at (a speed).
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To appoint; to name.
*1991 , Bernard Guenée, Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates (ISBN 0226310329):
*:On November 15, 1396,Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;
To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
*1990 , Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese, (Goodfellas) :
*:Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him.
*:Henry Hill: Paulie's gonna make you?
To defecate or urinate.
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(lb) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
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*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, work=BBC
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, title= (lb) To pay, to cover (an expense);
*1889 May 1, Chief Justice , Pensacola & A. R. Co. v. State'' of Florida (judicial opinion), reproduced in ''The Southern Reporter , Volume 5, West Publishing Company,
*:Whether,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 to make expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.
*2005 , Yuvi Shmul and Ron Peltier, Make It Big with Yuvi: How to Buy Or Start a Small Business, the Best Investment , AuthorHouse, ISBN 1-4259-0021-6,
*:At first glance, you may be able to make' rent and other overhead expenses because the business is doing well, but if sales drop can you still ' make rent?
*2011 , Donald Todrin, Successfully Navigating the Downturn , Entrepreneur Press, ISBN 1-59918-419-2, p.194:
*:So you can’t make' payroll. This happens.many business owners who have never confronted it before will be forced to deal with this most difficult matter of not ' making payroll.
To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
:(Chaucer)
:(Tennyson)
*ca.1360-1387 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman)
*:to solace him some time, as I do when I make
To enact; to establish.
*1791 , The (First Amendment to the United States Constitution):
*:Congress shall make 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.
To develop into; to prove to be.
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To form or formulate in the mind.
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(lb) 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 .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:a scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make
(lb) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
(lb) To be engaged or concerned in.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?
(often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
How a thing is made; construction. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1907, , A Horse's Tale
, passage=I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.}}
Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. (jump)
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, chapter=2 (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials. (jump)
* {{quote-news, 1902, September 16, , German Iron and Steel Production, The New York Times, page=8
, passage=In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons.}}
(dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1908, Charles Thomas Jacobi, Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More Particularly to the Printing of Books, page=331
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A person's character or disposition. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1914, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Perch of the Devil, page=274
, passage=I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not my make ; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.}}
(bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
* {{quote-book, 1925, Robert William Chambers, The Talkers, page=195
, passage=It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.}}
(physics) The closing of an electrical circuit. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1947, Charles Seymour Siskind, Electricity, page=94
, passage=If the interrupter operated every 2 sec., the current would rise to 10 amp. and drop to zero with successive "makes " and "breaks."}}
(computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
* {{quote-book, 2003, D. Curtis Jamison, Perl Programming for Biologists, page=115, isbn=0471430595
, passage=However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.}}
(slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 2003, John Lutz, The Night Spider, page=53, isbn=0786015160
, passage="They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.}}
Past or future target of seduction (usually female). (jump)
* {{quote-book, 2007, Prudence Mors Rains, Becoming an Unwed Mother, page=26
, passage=To me, if I weren't going with someone and was taking pills, it would be like advertising that I'm an easy make .}}
* {{quote-book, 1962, Ralph Moreno, A Man's Estate
, passage=She's your make , not mine.
(slang, military) A promotion.
* {{quote-book, 2004, Joseph Stilwell, Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell, page=94
, passage=Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)}}
A home-made project
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(dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
* {{quote-book, 1624, , The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth
, passage=Where their maids and their makes / At dancing and wakes, / Had their napkins and posies / And the wipers for their noses}}
* {{quote-book, 1826, , Woodstock; Or, the Cavalier
, passage=the last we shall have, I take it; for a make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.}}
* 1934 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Grey Granite , Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 606:
A telephone conversation.
A short visit, usually for social purposes.
* Cowper
A cry or shout.
A decision or judgement.
The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
A beckoning or summoning.
* Addison
* Macaulay
(finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
* 1978 , , The Practice , Harper & Row, ISBN 9780060131944:
* 2007 , William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run Out of Jesus , CrossHouse Publishing, ISBN 978-0-929292-24-3:
* 2008 , Jamal M. Bullocks et al., Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques , Thieme, ISBN 978-1-58890-670-0,
* 2009 , Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting , page 171:
(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
Vocation; employment; calling.
A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
(lb) To use one's voice.
#(lb) To request, summon, or beckon.
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#*(John Bunyan) (1628-1688)
#*:They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
#(lb) To cry or shout.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:You must call to the nurse.
#*(Rudyard Kipling) (1865-1936), Merrow Down
#*:For far — oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!
#(lb) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
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#*(John Gay) (1685-1732)
#*:no parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear
# To contact by telephone.
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#(lb) To declare in advance.
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#To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:If thou canst awake by four o' the clock, / I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.
To visit.
#To pay a (social) visit.
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#* (1628–1699)
#*:He ordered her to call at the house once a week.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
#To stop at a station or port.
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(lb) To name, identify or describe.
#(lb) To name or refer to.
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#*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
#*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= #(lb) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
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#*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= #(lb) To predict.
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#To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
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#*(John Brougham) (1814-1880)
#*:[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
#(lb) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
#*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
#*:This speech calls him Spaniard.
Direct or indirect use of the voice.
#(lb) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
# (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
# To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.
#(lb) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
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To require, .
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
To demand repayment of a loan.
To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
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As nouns the difference between make and call
is that make is skin (on liquids), sputum, placenta while call is a telephone conversation.As a verb call is
(lb) to use one's voice .make
English
(wikipedia make)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to match .Verb
Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September:
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=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 rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Don Eppes: David, he make you?
David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
Wales 2-1 Montenegro, passage=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 even make the bench.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), passage=Bart spies an opportunity to make 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!”}}
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Derived terms
* formake * make a deal * make a face * make a fuss * make a move * make a muscle * make a pass * make a promise * make a wish * make an honest woman out of * make an offer * make away * make away with * make book * make conscience * make do * make good on (a promise) * make for * make friends * make hay * make hay while the sun shines * make into * make it * make light of * make like * make love * make merry * make money * make music * make off with * make-or-break * make out * make over * make right * make room * make someone's blood boil * make someone's blood run cold * make something of * make the most of * make time * make to * make up * make water * make whole * make with * mismake * unmakeSee also
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(en noun)- What make of car do you drive?
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Synonyms
* brand; type; manufacturer * (jump) construction; manufacture * (jump) origin; manufacture * (jump) production; output * (jump) making; manufacture; manufacturing; production * (jump) makeup, disposition, character; type, way * (jump) closing; completion; actuation * (jump) ID, identification * (jump) layEtymology 2
From (etyl) . See also match .Noun
(en noun)- Th'Elfe therewith astownd, / Vpstarted lightly from his looser make , / And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take.
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Noun
(en noun)- Only as he climbed the steps did he mind that he hadn't even a meck upon him, and turned to jump off as the tram with a showd swung grinding down to the Harbour […].
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(wikipedia call)Noun
(en noun)- I received several phone calls today.
- I received several calls today.
- I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
- the baker's punctual call
- He heard a call from the other side of the room.
- That was a good call .
- That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
- I had to yield to the call of the wild.
- Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.
- running into danger without any call of duty
- page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call .”
- page 56: “ I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”
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: I took general-surgery call' at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical '''call''', which was gladly given away by the older staff members: . You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical ' call .
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: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.
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- We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
- The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there's a division between a work call' and a show ' call .
- There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
Quotations
* 2007 , Latina , volume 11, page 101: *: We actually have a call tomorrow, which is a Sunday, right after my bridal shower. I have to make enchiladas for 10 people!Derived terms
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(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call' him, will get on, but I do know that if you '''call''' my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs ' called a livery.
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
