make

1. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.Examples: "[…] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed."Synonyms: making, manufacture, manufacturing, productiondated

2. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.Examples: "In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons."Synonyms: production, outputuncountable

3. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.Examples: "However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank."

4. (slang) Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.Examples: ""They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress."; ""I'm sure we'll get a make on the suspect's prints by day break, so if you come down town, I'll see you get everything available. Go ahead and process the car, we won't have any need of it.""; "He got out his binoculars, trying for a make on the plate, but the plate light was conveniently not working. The windows must have been tinted, because he could not see inside the van, either."Synonyms: IDslang

5. (slang, military) A promotion.Examples: "Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)"slang

6. (card games) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.Examples: "It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time."; "'Not your make,' said the adjutant sternly and started dealing the cards with his white be-ringed hands as though he was in haste to get rid of them."

1. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).Examples: "To me, if I weren't going with someone and was taking pills, it would be like advertising that I'm an easy make."; "She's your make, not mine. […] It isn't anything short of difficult to entertain someone else's pregnant fiancee."slang

2. (UK, dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.Examples: "Th'Elfe therewith astownd, Vpstarted lightly from his looser make, And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take."; "Where their maids and their makes At dancing and wakes, Had their napkins and posies And the wipers for their noses"; "But then sometimes I thought, it's a black Crake That never to her-sell can get a Make."UKdialectal

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.Examples: "the last we shall have, I take it; for a make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow."; "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 […]"IrelandNorthern-EnglandScotlandarchaic

1. (East Anglia, Essex, obsolete) An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.Examples: "Harvest.—When left for seed, they are cut and wadded as pease, with a make. Produce.—From three to six sacks an acre."; "Harvest. Taken up by a pease-make, and left in small heaps, and turned as often as the weather may make it necessary."East-AngliaEssexobsolete