make

To create.

We made a bird feeder for our yard.

I'll make a man out of him yet.

To create.

I made a poem for her wedding.

He made a will.

To create.

make war

They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.

To create.

God made earth and heaven.

Thine are these orbs of light and shade; ⁠Thou madest Life in man and brute; ⁠Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.

To create.

I'm making cereal for breakfast. Who wants some?

Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.

Near-synonyms: kind, type

we service all makes and models

Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).

Near-synonyms: makeup, form, conformation, composition; form factor

I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.

Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.

The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.

The Royal Typewriter Company is distributing a very attractive eight page folder, announcing the Royal Number 10, the first machine of Royal make which uses levers instead of wires to operate the type-bars.

A person's character or disposition.

I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not my make; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.

The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.

[…] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed.

Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).

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.

Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.

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