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Sakes vs Makes - What's the difference?

sakes | makes |

As nouns the difference between sakes and makes

is that sakes is plural of lang=en, meaning benefit while makes is plural of lang=en.

As a verb makes is

third-person singular of make.

sakes

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)
  • , meaning benefit.
    • For all our sakes , please let us pass.

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * * sakis

    Noun

    (head)
  • , referring to a Japanese rice wine.
    • The sailor tried several different sakes before he passed out.

    makes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (make)
    • Green traffic lights look white to me, which makes them hard to distinguish from streetlights from far away. - First Usenet use via Google Groups, 9 May 1981 00:31:59-PDT, CSVAX.halbert at Berkeley

    Noun

    (head)
    • I would vote against a net.auto.bmw. Problems/comments regarding all makes are of interest, to me anyway. - net.auto.bmw, Aug 19 1983, 9:49 am, Joe Pfeiffer

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