Definitions for made
made
made
Spelling: [meyd]
IPA: /meɪd/
Made is a 4 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 43 anagrams from letters in made (adem).
Definitions for made
noun
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the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
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production with reference to the manufacturer; brand:
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disposition; character; nature.
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the act or process of making.
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quantity made; output.
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Cards. the act of naming the trump, or the suit named as trump.
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Electricity. the closing of an electric circuit.
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Jewelry. the excellence of a polished diamond with regard to proportion, symmetry, and finish.
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Slang. identifying information about a person or thing from police records:
verb
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simple past tense and past participle of make1 .
Idioms
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have it made, Informal.
to be assured or confident of success:
to have achieved success, especially wealth, status, or the like.
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make a play for, to try to get:
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make as if / as though, Informal. to act as if; pretend:
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make away with,
to steal:
to destroy; kill:
to get rid of.
to consume, drink, or eat completely:
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make believe, to pretend; imagine:
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make (so) bold, to have the temerity; be so rash; dare:
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make book, Slang.
to take bets and give odds.
to make a business of this.
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make colors, Nautical. to hoist an ensign, as on board a warship.
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make do, to function, manage, or operate, usually on a deprivation level with minimal requirements:
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make good,
to provide restitution or reparation for:
to succeed:
to fulfill:
Navigation. to compute (a course) allowing for leeway and compass deviation.
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make heavy weather,
Nautical. to roll and pitch in heavy seas.
to progress laboriously; struggle, especially to struggle needlessly:
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make it,
Informal. to achieve a specific goal:
Informal. to succeed in general:
Slang. to have sexual intercourse.
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make it so, Nautical. strike the ship's bell accordingly: said by the officer of the watch when the hour is announced.
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make like, Informal. to try or pretend to be like; imitate:
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make one's manners, Southern U.S.
to perform an appropriate or expected social courtesy.
Older Use. to bow or curtsy.
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make sail, Nautical.
to set sails.
to brace the yards of a ship that has been hove to in order to make headway.
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make time. time (def 52).
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make water,
to urinate.
Nautical. (of a hull) to leak.
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make with, Slang.
to operate; use:
to bring about; provide or produce:
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on the make, Informal.
seeking to improve one's social or financial position, usually at the expense of others or of principle.
increasing; advancing.
Slang. seeking amorous or sexual relations:
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put the make on, Slang. to make sexual overtures to.
adjective
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produced by making, preparing, etc., in a particular way (often used in combination):
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artificially produced:
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invented or made-up:
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prepared, especially from several ingredients:
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assured of success or fortune:
Verb phrases
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make out,
to write out or complete, as a bill or check.
to establish; prove.
to decipher; discern.
to imply, suggest, or impute:
to manage; succeed:
Slang. to engage in kissing and caressing; neck.
Slang. to have sexual intercourse.
Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to turn off or extinguish (especially a light or fire):
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make over,
to remodel; alter:
to transfer the title of (property); convey:
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make for,
to go toward; approach:
to lunge at; attack.
to help to promote or maintain:
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make off,
to run away; depart hastily:
Nautical. to stand off from a coast, especially a lee shore.
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make off with, to carry away; steal:
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make on, Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to turn on, light, or ignite (especially a light or fire):
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make up,
(of parts) to constitute; compose; form.
to put together; construct; compile.
to concoct; invent.
Also, make up for. to compensate for; make good.
to complete.
to put in order; arrange:
to conclude; decide.
to settle amicably, as differences.
to become reconciled, as after a quarrel.
Printing. to arrange set type, illustrations, etc., into columns or pages.
to dress in appropriate costume and apply cosmetics for a part on the stage.
to apply cosmetics.
to adjust or balance, as accounts; prepare, as statements.
Education. to repeat (a course or examination that one has failed).
Education. to take an examination that one had been unable to take when first given, usually because of absence.
to specify and indicate the layout or arrangement of (columns, pages, etc., of matter to be printed).
Atlantic States. (of the weather or clouds) to develop or gather:
Atlantic States. (of the sea) to become turbulent:
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make up to,
Informal. to try to become friendly with; fawn on.
to make advances to; flirt with:
verb (used with object)
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to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.:
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to produce; cause to exist or happen; bring about:
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to cause to be or become; render:
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to appoint or name:
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to put in the proper condition or state, as for use; fix; prepare:
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to bring into a certain form:
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to convert from one state, condition, category, etc., to another:
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to cause, induce, or compel:
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to give rise to; occasion:
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to produce, earn, or win for oneself:
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to write or compose:
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to draw up, as a legal document; draft:
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to do; effect:
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to establish or enact; put into existence:
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to become by development; prove to be:
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to form in the mind, as a judgment or estimate:
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to judge or interpret, as to the truth, nature, meaning, etc. (often followed by of):
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to estimate; reckon:
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to bring together separate parts so as to produce a whole; compose; form:
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to amount to; bring up the total to:
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to serve as:
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to be sufficient to constitute:
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to be adequate or suitable for:
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to assure the success or fortune of:
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to deliver, utter, or put forth:
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to go or travel at a particular speed:
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to arrive at or reach; attain:
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to arrive in time for:
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to arrive in time to be a passenger on (a plane, boat, bus, train, etc.):
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Informal. to gain or acquire a position within:
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to receive mention or appear in or on:
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to gain recognition or honor by winning a place or being chosen for inclusion in or on:
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Slang. to have sexual intercourse with.
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Cards.
to name (the trump).
to take a trick with (a card).
Bridge. to fulfill or achieve (a contract or bid).
to shuffle (the cards).
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to earn, as a score:
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Slang.
to recognize or identify:
to charge or cause to be charged with a crime:
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to close (an electric circuit).
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South Midland and Southern U.S. to plant and cultivate or produce (a crop):
verb (used without object)
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to cause oneself, or something understood, to be as specified:
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to show oneself to be or seem in action or behavior (usually followed by an adjective):
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to be made, as specified:
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to move or proceed in a particular direction:
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to rise, as the tide or water in a ship.
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South Midland and Southern U.S. (of a crop) to grow, develop, or mature:
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make down, Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to rain or snow:
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make fast, Chiefly Nautical. to fasten or secure.
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make shut, Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to close:
Origin of made
before 900; Middle English maken, Old English macian; cognate with Low German, Dutch maken, German machen
Examples for made
But, my daughter, why is it that the commands of Phidias would have made you unhappy?
It cannot be denied that he has often made good use of his influence.
Mrs. Kouachi works at a nursery and has worn the veil since she made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.
Has he then made you believe that he would divorce Hipparete?
The commencement of a law and parliamentary library has been made.
But Republican and Democratic parties have made efforts to reverse that trend.
The program has not made a final selection on which upgrades will actually be included in future versions of the F-35.
The best of his works is the Olympian Zeus, made at Elis after his exile.
In 1995, Myerson made a point not to attend the 75th anniversary of the Miss America pageant.
In 2011 LGBT media outlet Queerty took the app to task for allegedly deleting accounts that made reference to being trans.