make out

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verb

1. detect with the senses (Freq. 8)
- The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
- I can't make out the faces in this photograph
• Syn:
spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern,
pick out, tell apart
• Derivationally related forms:
discernible (for: discern), discernment (for: discern)
• Hyponyms:
resolve, discriminate
• Entailment:
perceive, comprehend
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. make out and issue (Freq. 2)
- write out a check
- cut a ticket
- Please make the check out to me
• Syn:
write out, issue, cut
• Hypernyms:
write
• Hyponyms:
check
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- The banks make out the check
3. comprehend (Freq. 2)
- I cannot make out what this politician is saying
• Hypernyms:
understand
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. come to terms with (Freq. 1)
- We got by on just a gallon of gas
- They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
• Syn:
cope, get by, make do, contend, grapple,
deal, manage
• Hypernyms:
act, move
• Hyponyms:
improvise, extemporize, fend, hack, cut,
scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along,
meet, match, cope with
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
- Somebody ----s (for: manage)
- Somebody ----s (for: make do)
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s (for: get by)
- Somebody ----s (for: cope)
5. proceed or get along (Freq. 1)
- How is she doing in her new job?
- How are you making out in graduate school?
- He's come a long way
• Syn:
do, fare, come, get along
• Hypernyms:
proceed, go
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s Adjective/Noun
- Somebody ----s Adjective
6. have sexual intercourse with
- This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
- Adam knew Eve
- Were you ever intimate with this man?
• Syn:
sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make love, sleep with,
get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse,
have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff,
eff, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang,
get it on, bonk
• Derivationally related forms:
bed (for: bed), fucker (for: fuck), fucking (for: fuck), fuck (for: fuck), screw (for: screw), screwing (for: screw), love (for: love), lover (for: love)
• Usage Domain:
archaism (for: screw)
• Hypernyms:
copulate, mate, pair, couple
• Hyponyms:
take, have, fornicate
• Verb Group:
neck
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: lie with)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: hump)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: fuck)
- Somebody ----s somebody (for: screw)
7. kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
- The couple were necking in the back seat of the car
• Syn:
neck
• Derivationally related forms:
necker (for: neck), necking (for: neck)
• Hypernyms:
pet
• Hyponyms:
smooch, spoon
• Verb Group:
sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make love, sleep with,
get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse,
have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff,
eff, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang,
get it on, bonk
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
8. write all the required information onto a form
- fill out this questionnaire, please!
- make out a form
• Syn:
complete, fill out, fill in
• Entailment:
write down, set down, get down, put down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
9. imply or suggest
- Your remarks make me out to be stupid
• Hypernyms:
suggest, intimate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
10. try to establish
- She made out that she know nothing about the crime
• Hypernyms:
claim
• Verb Frames:
- It ----s that CLAUSE