To build, construct, produce, or originate. We made a bird feeder for our yard. I’how to make brownies make a man out of him yet. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

I made a poem for her wedding. They were just a bunch of ne’er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men. To make like a deer caught in the headlights. They made nice together, as if their fight never happened. He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands. Follow after the things which make for peace.

One swallow does not a summer make. Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N. We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p. 46: Style alone does not make a writer.