Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Produced or manufactured by constructing, shaping, or forming. Often used in combination.
- adjective Produced or created artificially.
- adjective Having been invented; contrived.
- adjective Assured of success.
- idiom (made for) Perfectly suited for.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Created; wrought; fabricated; constructed.
- Artificially produced; formed independently of natural development: as, made ground (ground made up of earth from another place); a made word.
- Drawn from various sources; formed of several parts or ingredients: as, a made dish; composite; built up: as, a made mast (a mast composed of several sticks bound together by iron hoops, in contradistinction to a single-spar mast).
- Placed beyond the reach of want; assured of reward, success, fortune, or promotion; well provided for life.
- Well taught or trained, as a hunting-dog.
- Thorough; consummate; out-and-out.
- Artificial; meretricious.
- Concocted; invented; fictitious: as, a made-up tale or excuse.
- noun See
mad . - Fatigued; exhausted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
make . - adjective Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in
- adjective having the sheets and blankets set in order; -- of a bed.
- adjective successful or assured of success.
- adjective Artificial.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
mad , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
maggot orgrub . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of make.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective successful or assured of success
- adjective (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order
- adjective produced by a manufacturing process
Etymologies
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Examples
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LOU.DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: I think it's a great idea, but we've got such a complicated economy right now, it's hard to say what is made in America, the content, for example, of the three automakers are not divulged that is U. S.-made content but it's a terrific idea.
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The low dollar-to-mark ratio has made U. S.-made cars more affordable.
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GM is making plans to sell the Chevrolet Malibu, a sedan made in Kansas and Michigan, and possibly other U. S.-made passenger cars in Brazil and other Latin American markets, GM executives have said.
Detroit Sets Bold Goal: John D. Stoll, Norihiko Shirouzu 2008
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As a result, it made little economic sense to export U. S.-made vehicles even as auto sales soared in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Detroit Sets Bold Goal: John D. Stoll, Norihiko Shirouzu 2008
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Tilting his head back automatically pushed his shoulders away from the granite wall, and that gave him a feeling of falling, and that made him overreact and drop his head and push his shoulders back and _that _made him sway forward a little, which didn't worry him.
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Tilting his head back automatically pushed his shoulders away from the granite wall, and that gave him a feeling of falling, and that made him overreact and drop his head and push his shoulders back and _that _made him sway forward a little, which didn't worry him.
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In "It made him _sad_," _made_ does not fully express the action performed upon him -- not "_made_ him," but "_made sad_ (saddened) him."
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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In "It made him _sad_," _made_ does not fully express the action performed upon him -- not "_made_ him," but "_made sad_ (saddened) him."
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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LESSON XXIII. ob served ', _saw; noticed_. trans par'ent, _clear; easily seen through_. ma te'ri al, _that of which any thing is made or to be made_. ob tained', _taken from; received_. gar'ments, _articles of clothing_. verd'ure, _any green growth_.
New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes
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"And I made you -- simply _made_ you, you didn't want to -- get me one of those foolish little pitchers."
tbtabby commented on the word made
Means "maggot" in Dutch.
July 13, 2009