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How to sign: organize or be responsible for
"hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course";
Similiar / Same: hold, give, have, throw
Categories: direct
How to sign: engage in
"make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution";
Similiar / Same: do
Within this category: overdo
How to sign: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
"How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month";
Similiar / Same: earn, realise, pull in, bring in, realize, gain, take in, clear
Within this category: eke out, gross, profit, rake in, rake off, take home, yield
How to sign: prepare for eating by applying heat
"Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please";
Similiar / Same: ready, cook, prepare
Categories: create from raw material, create from raw stuff
Within this category: concoct, devil, dress, lard, precook, preserve, put on, whip up
How to sign: make or cause to be or to become
"make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor";
See also: remake, refashion, redo, make over, fabricate, manufacture, cook up, invent, make up
Similiar / Same: create
Within this category: arouse, assemble, bear, beat, beget, bring, bring about, build, cause, choreograph, clear, cleave, compose, construct, copy, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create verbally, cut, cut, derive, direct, distill, establish, film, film-make, form, froth, generate, give, incorporate, institute, lay down, offset, originate, prepare, press, produce, produce, puncture, put on, raise, raise, re-create, realize, recreate, regenerate, reproduce, scrape, short-circuit, strike, style, track, twine
How to sign: make by combining materials and parts
"this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer";
Similiar / Same: construct, build
Within this category: cantilever, channelize, corduroy, customize, frame, groin, lock, raise, rebuild, revet, wattle
How to sign: create or manufacture a man-made product
"We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries";
Similiar / Same: produce, create
Within this category: bootleg, breed, churn out, clap up, confect, custom-make, cut, dummy, elaborate, extrude, fudge together, generate, laminate, machine, output, overproduce, prefabricate, prefabricate, print, proof, pulse, put out, remake, render, reproduce, smelt, turn out, underproduce
How to sign: reach a destination, either real or abstract
"We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts";
Similiar / Same: reach, arrive at, attain, gain, hit
Within this category: access, bottom out, breast, catch up, culminate, find, get through, ground, make, peak, scale, summit, top, top out
How to sign: eliminate urine
"Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug";
Similiar / Same: micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water, urinate, piddle, puddle
