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Make Out

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Verb

1. discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart

detect with the senses

Example Sentences:
'The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards'
'I can't make out the faces in this photograph'

2. cut, issue, make out, write out

make out and issue

Example Sentences:
'write out a check'
'cut a ticket'
'Please make the check out to me'

3. make out

comprehend

Example Sentences:
'I cannot make out what this politician is saying'

4. come, do, fare, get along, make out

proceed or get along

Example Sentences:
'How is she doing in her new job?'
'How are you making out in graduate school?'
'He's come a long way'

5. contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage

come to terms with

Example Sentences:
'We got by on just a gallon of gas'
'They made do on half a loaf of bread every day'

6. bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with

have sexual intercourse with

Example Sentences:
'This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm'
'Adam knew Eve'
'Were you ever intimate with this man?'

7. make out, neck

kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion

Example Sentences:
'The couple were necking in the back seat of the car'

8. complete, fill in, fill out, make out

write all the required information onto a form

Example Sentences:
'fill out this questionnaire, please!'
'make out a form'

9. make out

imply or suggest

Example Sentences:
'Your remarks make me out to be stupid'

10. make out

try to establish

Example Sentences:
'She made out that she know nothing about the crime'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Make Out

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verb (adverb)
1. (transitive)
to discern or perceive
can you make out that house in the distance?
2. (transitive)
to understand or comprehend
I can't make out this letter
3. (transitive)
to write out
he made out a cheque
4. (transitive)
to attempt to establish or prove
he made me out to be a liar
5. (intransitive)
to pretend
he made out that he could cook
6. (intransitive)
to manage or fare
how did you make out in the contest?
7. (intransitive; often foll by with) informal, mainly US and Canadian
to engage in necking or petting
Alan is making out with Jane

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Make Out

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1. 
to see or hear with some difficulty but clearly enough to understand
2. 
to understand
3. 
to write out
4. 
to fill out (as a blank form)
5. 
to show or prove to be
6. 
to try to show, affirm, or imply to be
7. 
to succeed; get along
8.  US, Slang
a. 
to kiss and caress as lovers
b. 
to have sexual intercourse

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Make Out

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v. made (mād), mak·ing, makes
v.tr.
1. To cause to exist or happen; bring about; create: made problems for us; making a commotion.
2. To bring into existence by shaping, modifying, or putting together material; construct: make a dress; made a stone wall.
3. To form by assembling individuals or constituents: We made a temporary information center using savvy volunteers.
4. To change from one form or function to another: make clay into bricks.
5.
a. To cause to be or become: made her position clear; a decision that made him happy.
b. To cause to assume a specified function or role: made her treasurer; made Austin his home.
6.
a. To cause to act in a specified manner: Heat makes gases expand.
b. To compel: made him quit.
7.
a. To form in the mind: make an estimate.
b. To compose: make verses.
8.
a. To prepare; fix: make dinner.
b. To get ready or set in order for use: made the bed.
c. To gather and light the materials for (a fire).
9.
a. To engage in: make war.
b. To carry out; perform: make a phone call; make an incision.
10. To achieve, produce, or attain: made peace between the two sides; not making sense; didn't make the quota.
11.
a. To institute or establish; enact: make laws.
b. To draw up and execute in a suitable form: make a will.
c. To arrange or agree to: make a date.
12.
a. To arrive at; reach: made Seattle in two hours.
b. To reach in time: just made the plane.
13.
a. To attain the rank or position of: made lieutenant.
b. To acquire a place in or on: made the baseball team; made the newspapers.
14.
a. To gain or earn, as by working: make money.
b. To behave so as to acquire: make friends.
c. To score or achieve, as in a sport: made a field goal.
15.
a. To assure the success of: Favorable reviews can make a play.
b. To favor the development of: Practice makes a winning team.
16. To be suited for: Oak makes strong furniture.
17. To develop into: will make a fine doctor.
18.
a. To draw a conclusion as to the significance or nature of: don't know what to make of the decision.
b. To calculate as being; estimate: I make the height 20 feet.
c. To consider as being: wasn't the problem some people made it.
19.
a. To constitute: They make a great team.
b. To add up to: Two and two make four.
c. To amount to: makes no difference.
20. To cover (a distance): made 200 miles before sunset
21. To constitute the essence or nature of: Clothes make the man.
22. To cause to be especially enjoyable or rewarding: Your being along really made the outing.
23. To appear to begin (an action): She made to leave.
24. Slang To persuade to have sexual intercourse.
v.intr.
1. To act or behave in a specified manner: make merry; make free.
2. To begin or appear to begin an action: made as if to shake my hand.
3. To cause something to be as specified: make ready; make sure.
4. To proceed in a certain direction: made for home; made after the thief.
5. Slang To pretend to be; imitate. Used with like: made like a ballerina.
6. To undergo fabrication or manufacture: This wool makes up into a warm shawl.
7. To rise or accumulate: The tide is making.
n.
1.
a. The style or manner in which a thing is made: disliked the make of my coat.
b. A specific line of manufactured goods, identified by the manufacturer's name or the registered trademark: a famous make of shirt.
c. The origin of a product's manufacturing: a bicycle of a French make.
2.
a. The physical or moral nature of a person: found out what make of man he was.
b. The physical nature or build of an animal or person: a horse of a beautiful make.
3. Slang Identification of a person or thing, often from information in police records: Did you get a make on the thief?

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