Verb

To create.

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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 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, " Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September:

*: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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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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*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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(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, p.843:

*: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, p.67:

*: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.

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*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?

Verb

To have a consequence or remnant.

#To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

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#To cause, to result in.

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#(lb) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

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#*Bible, (w) v. 24

#*:Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:The foot / That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.

(lb) To depart; to separate from.

#To let be or do without interference.

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#(lb) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

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#(lb) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

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#(lb) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

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(lb) To transfer something.

#(lb) To transfer possession of after death.

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#(lb) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

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#(lb) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

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To remain (behind); to stay.

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*:And whanne sire launcelot sawe them fare soo / he gat a spere in his hand / and there encountred with hym al attones syr bors sir Ector and sire Lyonel / and alle they thre smote hym atte ones with their speres // and by mysfortune sir bors smote syre launcelot thurgh the shelde in to the syde / and the spere brake / and the hede lefte stylle in his syde

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) V:

*:When he had leeft speakynge, he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nette to make a draught.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Now leave complaining and begin your tea.

Verb

To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

Verb

(rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed.

* 1868 , , The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám , 2nd edition:

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:

Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

Verb

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

* Spenser

An army strong she leaved .