Dedicate and Make

verb

• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, consecrate, commit, devote
• Open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building.
  • usage: "The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes"
• Inscribe or address by way of compliment.
  • usage: "She dedicated her book to her parents"
• Set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church. .

• (v.t.) To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple or a church, to a religious use.
• (v.t.) To inscribe or address, as to a patron.
• (v.t.) To devote, set apart or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.
• (p.a.) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

To appropriate private property to public ownership for a public use.

noun

• A recognizable kind.
  • usage: "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that"
  • synonyms: brand
• The act of mixing cards haphazardly.
  • synonyms: shuffle, shuffling

verb

• Engage in.
  • usage: "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution"
  • synonyms: do
• Give certain properties to something.
  • usage: "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"
  • synonyms: get
• Make or cause to be or to become.
  • usage: "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
  • synonyms: create
• Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.
  • usage: "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
  • synonyms: induce, stimulate, cause, have, get
• Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.
  • usage: "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
  • synonyms: cause, do
• Create or manufacture a man-made product.
  • usage: "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
  • synonyms: produce, create
• Make, formulate, or derive in the mind.
  • usage: "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks"
  • synonyms: draw
• Compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way.
  • usage: "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law"; "Heat makes you sweat"
• Create by artistic means.
  • usage: "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
  • synonyms: create
• Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: gain, take in, clear, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
• Create or design, often in a certain way.
  • usage: "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"
  • synonyms: do
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: form, constitute
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: reach, get to, progress to
• Be or be capable of being changed or made into.
  • usage: "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father"
• Make by shaping or bringing together constituents.
  • usage: "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"
• Perform or carry out.
  • usage: "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call"
• Make by combining materials and parts.
  • usage: "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
  • synonyms: construct, build
• Change from one form into another.
  • usage: "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks"
• Act in a certain way so as to acquire.
  • usage: "make friends"; "make enemies"
• Charge with a function; charge to be.
  • usage: "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club"
  • synonyms: name, nominate
• Achieve a point or goal.
  • usage: "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"
  • synonyms: have, get
• Reach a destination, either real or abstract.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: reach, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
• Institute, enact, or establish.
  • usage: "make laws"
  • synonyms: lay down, establish
• Carry out or commit.
  • usage: "make a mistake"; "commit a faux-pas"
• Form by assembling individuals or constituents.
  • usage: "Make a quorum"
• Organize or be responsible for.
  • usage: "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"
  • synonyms: hold, throw, have, give
• Put in order or neaten.
  • usage: "make the bed"; "make up a room"
  • synonyms: make up
• Head into a specified direction.
  • usage: "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains"
  • synonyms: take
• Have a bowel movement.
  • usage: "The dog had made in the flower beds"
  • synonyms: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap
• Undergo fabrication or creation.
  • usage: "This wool makes into a nice sweater"
• Be suitable for.
  • usage: "Wood makes good furniture"
• Add up to.
  • usage: "four and four make eight"
• Amount to.
  • usage: "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living"
• Constitute the essence of.
  • usage: "Clothes make the man"
• Appear to begin an activity.
  • usage: "He made to speak but said nothing in the end"; "She made as if to say hello to us"
• Proceed along a path.
  • usage: "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest"
  • synonyms: work
• Reach in time.
  • usage: "We barely made the plane"
• Gather and light the materials for.
  • usage: "make a fire"
• Prepare for eating by applying heat.
  • usage: "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
  • synonyms: cook, fix, ready, prepare
• Induce to have sex.
  • usage: "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night"; "Harry made Sally"
  • synonyms: seduce, score
• Assure the success of.
  • usage: "A good review by this critic will make your play"
• Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like.
  • usage: "She makes like an actress"
  • synonyms: pretend, make believe
• Consider as being.
  • usage: "It wasn't the problem some people made it"
• Calculate as being.
  • usage: "I make the height about 100 feet"
• Cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable.
  • usage: "make my day"
• Favor the development of.
  • usage: "Practice makes the winner"
• Develop into.
  • usage: "He will make a splendid father"
• Behave in a certain way.
  • usage: "make merry"
• Eliminate urine.
  • usage: "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"
  • synonyms: urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water

• (n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
• (v.t.) To be engaged or concerned in.
• (v.t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.
• (v.i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• (v.t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
• (v.t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.
• (v.i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.
• (v.t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
• (v.t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.
• (v.t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
• (v.t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.
• (v.i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
• (v.t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.
• (v.t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose or represent.
• (v.t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.
• (v.t.) To become; to be or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.
• (v.i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• (v.i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.
• (v.t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.
• (n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
• (v.t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
• (v.t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.