make up to someone Definition

make
verb made, making

1. To form, create, manufacture or produce something by mixing, combining or shaping materials.

Example: make the tea
Example: made me a cake
Thesaurus: manufacture, construct, produce, build, assemble, compose, fabricate, create, fashion, forge, mould, conceive; Antonym: dismantle.
2. To cause, bring about or create something by one's actions, etc.

Example: He's always making trouble
Example: I don't make the rules
Example: It makes no difference
3. To force, induce or cause someone to do something.

Example: Please don't make me go
Example: He makes me laugh
Thesaurus: force, coerce, impel, compel, prevail upon, require.
4. To cause it or them to change into something else; to transform or convert it or them.

Example: made the barn into a cottage
Form: make something into something (often)
Form: make someone into something
5. To cause something or someone to be, do or become a specified thing.

Example: made me cross
Example: made my head ache
6. To be capable of turning or developing into or serving as (a specified thing); to have or to develop the appropriate qualities for something.

Example: I make a terrible patient
Example: He will make a wonderful father
Example: He'll never make a salesman
Example: This box makes a good table
7. To appoint them as something.

Example: They made her deputy head
Form: make someone something (always)
8. To cause them or it to appear to be, or to represent them or it as being (a specified thing).

Example: Long hair makes her look younger
Example: The course made them into effective sales reps
Form: make someone (also)
Form: something into something
9. To gain, earn or acquire something.

Example: makes £400 a week
Example: Did you make a profit?
Example: He made a fortune but no friends
Example: made his name
10. To add up to or amount to something; to constitute.

Example: 4 and 4 makes 8
Example: The book makes interesting reading
Example: will make a nice change
Thesaurus: add up to, total, amount to, come to, equal.
11. To calculate, judge or estimate something to be (a specified thing).

Example: I make it three o'clock
Example: He made the total £28.70
12. To arrive at or reach something; to succeed in achieving, reaching or gaining it.

Example: should make the summit by midday
Example: can't make the party
Thesaurus: reach, accomplish, attain, do, carry out, execute, get, obtain, gain, secure, acquire, win; Antonym: lose, fail.
13. To score or win (points, runs, card tricks, etc).
14. To tidy (a bed) after use by smoothing out and tucking in the sheets, rearranging the duvet, etc.
15. To bring about or ensure the success of something; to cap or complete something.

Example: It made my day
Example: Those curtains really make this room
16. To propose something or propose something to someone.

Example: make an offer
Example: make me an offer
17. To engage in something; to perform, carry out or produce something.

Example: make war
Example: make a speech
Example: make a decision

noun

1. A manufacturer's brand

Example: What make of car is it?
Thesaurus: brand, kind, model, style, type, sort, variety.
2. technical
The act, practice or process of making or manufacturing.
3. Applied to a physical object, a person's body, etc: structure, type or build; the way in which it is made.
4. Applied to an immaterial thing: disposition or character; manner.

Derivative: makable
adj

Derivative: maker

See separate entries.

Idiom: make as if to do something (make as though to do something)

To act or behave in a specified way.
Example: She made as if to leave

To pretend to be or do something.
Example: He made as if he hadn't heard
Example: He was making like a gorilla
Thesaurus: pretend, feign, simulate, fake (slang).

Idiom: make do

colloq
To manage or get by.
Example: always having to make do

Idiom: make do without something

colloq
To manage without it.

Idiom: make do with something

colloq
To manage with, or make the best use, of a second or inferior choice. See also make-do.
Example: I've run out of butter, so you'll have to make do with margarine
Thesaurus: cope with, survive with, endure, manage with, muddle through with, scrape by with, get by with, get along with.

Idiom: make head or tail of something (make head nor tail of something)

Note: with negatives and in questions
To make any sense of it; to understand it.
Example: I can't make head or tail of this rota

Idiom: make it

To be successful.
Example: to make it in show business
Thesaurus: prosper, succeed, arrive.

To survive.
Example: is so badly injured he might not make it
Thesaurus: survive, pull through.

Idiom: make it up to someone

To compensate or repay them for difficulties, inconvenience, etc which they have experienced on one's account, or for kindness, generosity, etc which they have shown to one. Compare make up to someone below.

Idiom: make it with someone

coarse slang
To have sexual intercourse with them.

Idiom: make like something (make like to do something)

(S)
Make as if to do something.

Idiom: make or break something or someone

To be the crucial test that brings it or them either success or failure. See also make-or-break.
Example: The takeover will either make or break the company

Idiom: make to do something

To show an intention of doing it; to make an attempt or start to do it.
Example: He made to stand up, but changed his mind

Idiom: make up one's mind

See under mind.

Idiom: on the make

(of a person) seeking a large or illegal personal profit.

slang
(of a person) looking for a sexual partner.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon macian.

Phrasal Verb: make after someone or something

To follow or pursue them or it.

Phrasal Verb: make away with someone

To kill them.

Phrasal Verb: make away with something

See make off with something or make away with something below.

Phrasal Verb: make for something

To bring it about; to have it as a specific result.
Example: Fine weather makes for an enjoyable holiday

Phrasal Verb: make for something or someone

To go towards it or them, especially rapidly, purposefully or suddenly.

Phrasal Verb: make of something or someone

To understand by it or them.
Example: What do you make of their comments?
Example: They did not know what to make of us

Phrasal Verb: make something of something

To construct it from (a material, etc).

Phrasal Verb: make off

To leave, especially in a hurry or secretly.

Phrasal Verb: make off or away with something or someone

To run off with it or them; to steal or kidnap it or them.
Example: The thief made off with my bag

Phrasal Verb: make out

To progress or get along
Example: How did you make out in the exam?
To manage, succeed or survive.
Example: It's been tough, but we'll make out
To caress and fondle, snog or make love.
Example: They were making out in the back seat

Phrasal Verb: make out something or that something

To pretend or claim that it is so.
Example: He made out that he was ill

Phrasal Verb: make out something or make something out

To begin to discern it, especially to see or hear it.
Example: I could just make out a vague figure in the distance
To write or fill in a document, etc.
Example: made out a cheque for £20

Phrasal Verb: make something or someone out to be something

To portray them, or cause them to seem to be, what they are not.
Example: They made us out to be liars

Phrasal Verb: make over something or make something over

To transfer ownership of it.
Example: made over my shares to her when I retired
To convert or alter it. See also makeover.

Phrasal Verb: make up something

To assemble (text, illustration, etc) into (columns or pages).

Phrasal Verb: make up for something

To compensate or serve as an apology for it.

Phrasal Verb: make up to someone

To seek their friendship or favour; to flirt with them.

Phrasal Verb: make up with someone

To resolve a disagreement with someone.

Phrasal Verb: make someone up

To apply cosmetics to their face.

Phrasal Verb: make something up

To fabricate or invent it.
Example: made up the story
To prepare or assemble it.To constitute it; to be the parts of it.
Example: The three villages together make up a district
To form the final element in something; to complete it.
Example: another player to make up the team
To settle (disagreements, etc).
Example: We made up our quarrel