Please vs Make - What's the difference?
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(label) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].}}
To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
* Bible, (Psalms) cxxxv. 6
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* 1973: "Bitte or Bitter?", , August 1973, p. 109 [//books.google.com/books?id=CesCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA109]
* 1978: Virginia Watson-Rouslin, "A Foreign View", Cincinnati , September 1978, p. 110 [//books.google.com/books?id=cesCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA110]
* 1979: "Winners: Contest No. 13—The Laugh’s On Us", Cincinnati , September 1979, volume 12, issue 12, p. 15 [//books.google.com/books?id=dusCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15]
* 1998: Jose I. Sarasua, "Come to Cincinnati... Please?", Cost Engineering , volume 40, issue 5, 5 May 1998, p. 9 [http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/editorials/664754/come-cincinnati-please]
* 2001: Jeff Robinson, "Say what?", Ohio Magazine , April 2001, p. 77 [http://lrc.ohio.edu/lrcmedia/Streaming/lingCALL/ling270/saywhat.pdf?page=2]
* 2008: , The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English , ISBN 0374254109, p. 255 [//books.google.com/books?id=3eerb4RTYF8C&pg=PA255]
* 2011: Ellen McIntyre, Nancy Hulan, Vicky Layne, Reading Instruction for Diverse Classrooms: Research-Based, Culturally Responsive Practice , Guilford Press, ISBN 1609180569, p. 72 [//books.google.com/books?id=m7BAOCj8mHQC&pg=PA72]
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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, 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)
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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?
(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)
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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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:
In transitive terms the difference between please and make
is that please is to make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to while make is to pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.|lang=enAs an adverb please
is lang=en|Used to make a polite request.As a noun make is
brand or kind; often paired with model. {{jump|brand|s|t}.please
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(pleas)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
- Whatsoever the Lord pleased , that did he.
Synonyms
* (to make happy) satisfy * (to desire) desire, willAntonyms
* (to make happy) annoy, irritate, disgust, displeaseEtymology 2
Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from which replaced pray .Alternative forms
* (for the exaggerated way it is often pronounced as the expression of annoyance) puh-leaseAdverb
(-)- Please , pass the bread.
- Would you please sign this form?
- Could you tell me the time, please ?
- —May I help you? —Please .
- Oh, please , do we have to hear that again?
Derived terms
* pretty pleaseEtymology 3
Calque of (etyl) [//books.google.com/books?id=4e7XLGfekD8C&pg=PA16][http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/how-to-speak-cincinnatiese/]Adverb
(-)- Fellow: May I have a few days off to get married?
- Reply, in the Cincinnati idiom by a boss who had heard the sound but not the sense:
- Boss: Please ?
- Even though I heard it was supposed to be German-Catholic background, there’s only one thing German — they say ‘please ’ [for the more common ‘pardon me’], which comes from bitte .
- “…He explained in broken English that one of his daughters was ill and he probably could not be there. I did not understand all that he said, so asked, ‘Please ?’ per Cincinnati custom. ‘There is no need to plead. I will be there if she is feeling better,’ he replied.”
- Cincinnati are some of the most polite persons I have ever met in the US. When asking someone a question, instead of saying “Excuse me,” or “Pardon,” they say “Please ?”
- By the same token, one contestant who doesn’t hear a particular question could say “Pardon me?” while another could say “Please ?” Again, neither would be lying if he said he was from Ohio.
- In Maine, where as much as a quarter of the population has French ancestry, you may hear a stray hair called a couette'', and in parts of Ohio ''please'' is used in the same way as the German ''bitte , to invite a person to repeat something just said – apparently a remnant of the bilingual schooling once available in Cincinnati.
- Ellen grew up outside of Cincinnati and believed her own talk was the “norm,” while others were speakers of dialects. She was in graduate school before she learned that not all people say, Please ?'' to mean ''Can you repeat that?
Synonyms
* (request to repeat) what, excuse me, pardon me, come againReferences
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(wikipedia make)Etymology 1
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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
*Noun
(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 […].
