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单词 make one's way
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make1 /māk/

transitive verb (mākˈing; māde)
  1. To fashion, frame, construct, compose or form
  2. To create
  3. To bring into being
  4. To produce
  5. To conclude, contract
  6. To bring about
  7. To perform
  8. To force
  9. To cause
  10. To result in
  11. To cause to be
  12. To convert or turn
  13. To appoint
  14. To render
  15. To represent as doing or being
  16. To reckon
  17. To get as result or solution
  18. To occasion
  19. To bring into any state or condition
  20. To establish
  21. (in the navy) to promote
  22. To prepare
  23. To shut (as a door) (Shakespeare)
  24. To shuffle (cards)
  25. To declare as trumps (cards)
  26. To win a trick (cards)
  27. To obtain, gain or earn
  28. To score
  29. To constitute
  30. To amount to
  31. To count for
  32. To turn out
  33. To be capable of turning or developing into or serving as
  34. To arrive in sight of
  35. To reach, succeed in reaching
  36. To accomplish, achieve
  37. To attempt, offer or start
  38. To be occupied with
  39. To do
  40. To cause or assure the success of
  41. To persuade (esp a woman) to have sexual intercourse with one (slang)
  42. To have sexual intercourse with (slang)
intransitive verb
  1. To behave (as if), esp in order to deceive
  2. To proceed
  3. To tend, to result
  4. To contribute
  5. To flow
  6. To versify (archaic)
  7. To be in condition for making
  8. To matter (as it maksna, it does not matter; Scot)
noun
  1. Form or shape
  2. Structure, texture
  3. Build
  4. Formation
  5. Manufacture
  6. Brand
  7. Type
  8. Making
  9. Character or disposition
  10. Quantity made
  11. Establishment of an electric circuit or contact
  12. Trump declaration (cards)
ORIGIN: OE macian; Ger machen

makˈable or makeˈable adjective

mākˈer noun

  1. A person who makes
  2. (with cap) the Creator
  3. (esp in Scots form, makar /makˈ, mäkˈər/) a poet (archaic)
  4. The declarer (bridge)
  5. A jack in cards (obsolete)
  6. A caulker's tool

mākˈing noun

  1. The act of forming (often in combination, as in bread-making, cabinetmaking, etc)
  2. Structure
  3. Form
  4. (in pl) gains
  5. (in pl) materials or qualities from which something can be made
  6. (in pl) materials used to prepare cigarettes, heroin, etc (slang)

makeˈ-and-breakˈ noun

  1. The making and breaking of an electrical circuit
  2. A device which causes this to happen

makeˈbate noun (archaic)

A mischief-maker

makeˈ-believe intransitive verb see make believe below.

noun

Feigning (also makeˈ-belief)

adjective

Feigned

makeˈ-do adjective

Makeshift

makeˈ-or-breakˈ adjective see make or break below.

makeˈover noun

  1. A complete change in the style of a person's dress, appearance, etc, esp one following professional advice
  2. A complete reorganization of a company under new management
  3. An act of refurbishing a property, vehicle, etc

makeˈ-peace noun (Shakespeare)

A peace-maker

makeˈ-ready noun

Preparation of a letterpress sheet for printing, so as to obtain evenness of impression

makeˈshift noun

A temporary expedient or substitute

adjective

Of the nature of or characterized by a temporary expedient

makeˈunder noun (:informal)

A complete change of dress, appearance, etc to make a person seem less glamorous

makeˈ-up noun (also without hyphen)

  1. The way anything is arranged, composed, or constituted, or the ingredients in its constitution
  2. One's character, temperament, or mental qualities
  3. Cosmetics for self-beautification, worn esp by women, and by actors as an aid to impersonation
  4. The effect produced thereby
  5. The arrangement of composed types into columns or pages (printing)

makeˈ-weight noun

  1. Something which is thrown into a scale to make up the weight
  2. A person or thing of little value added to compensate for a deficiency

be the making of

To ensure the success of

have the makings of

To have all the necessary ability and inclination to become

in the making

In the process of being formed, developed, etc, or of becoming

make account of see under account

make a face

To grimace, contort the features

make a figure

To be conspicuous

make a fool of see under fool1

make after

To follow or pursue

make against

To militate or tell against

make a (good) meal, dinner, etc

To dine, etc (plentifully or heartily)

make allowances for see under allow

make a meal of see under meal1

make amends

To render compensation or satisfaction

make an ass of oneself

To behave like a fool

make a night (or day) of it

To extend an, esp enjoyable, activity through the whole night (or day)

make as if or (N American) make like or as though

To act as if, to pretend that

make at

To make a hostile movement against

make away (with)

To put out of the way, get rid of, destroy, kill (see also make off or away with below)

make believe

  1. To pretend, feign
  2. To play at believing

make bold see under bold

make certain (of)

  1. To find out
  2. To put beyond doubt
  3. To secure

make do (with)

To manage (with the usu inferior or inadequate means available)

make down

  1. To refashion so as to fit a smaller person
  2. To turn down the sheets and blankets of (Scot)

make eyes at see under eye1

make for

  1. To set out for, seek to reach
  2. To favour

make free with see under free

make friends

  1. To become friendly
  2. To acquire friends

make good, make light of, make little of, make love to, make merry see under good, etc.

make head or tail of

To find any sense in

make it

  1. To reach an objective
  2. To succeed in a purpose
  3. To become a success (informal)
  4. To have one's way sexually (with) (slang)

make much of

  1. To treat with fondness, to cherish, to foster
  2. To turn to great account
  3. To find much sense in, succeed in understanding

make no doubt

To have no doubt, to be confident

make nothing of

  1. To regard as being of little importance
  2. To have no hesitation or difficulty in (doing)
  3. To be totally unable to understand

make of

  1. To construct from (as material)
  2. To understand by
  3. To make much of, to pet (obsolete and Scot)
  4. To esteem (obsolete)

make off

To decamp

make off or away with

To run away with

make on (Shakespeare)

To make much of

make one's way

  1. To proceed
  2. To succeed

make or break or make or mar

To be the crucial test that brings success or failure to (makeˈ-or-breakˈ adjective)

make or meddle with

To have to do with, interfere with

make out

  1. To descry, to see
  2. To discern
  3. To decipher
  4. To comprehend, understand
  5. To prove
  6. To seek to make it appear
  7. To draw up
  8. To achieve (obsolete)
  9. To fill up
  10. To make do, get along somehow
  11. To succeed
  12. To engage in lovemaking (with) (chiefly N American; slang)

make over

  1. To remake or reconstruct
  2. To make a complete change in a person's style of dress, appearance, etc
  3. To transfer (makeˈover noun)

make sail

  1. To increase the quantity of sail
  2. To set sail

make someone's day see under day

make sure (of)

  1. To ascertain
  2. To put beyond doubt or risk
  3. To secure
  4. To feel certain
  5. To betroth (obsolete)

make the best of

  1. To turn to the best advantage
  2. To take in the best spirit

make the most of

To use to the best advantage

make up

  1. To fabricate
  2. To feign
  3. To collect
  4. To put together
  5. To parcel
  6. To put into shape
  7. To arrange
  8. To settle (an argument)
  9. To become friends again (after a quarrel, etc)
  10. To constitute
  11. To repair
  12. To complete, supplement
  13. To adjust one's appearance (as an actor for a part)
  14. To apply cosmetics to the face
  15. To put type, etc into columns and pages
  16. To set out and balance (accounts)
  17. To make good
  18. To compensate
  19. To decide (Shakespeare)

make up one's mind

To come to a decision

make up to

  1. To make friendly, adulatory, or amorous approaches to
  2. To compensate

make way see under way1

make with (informal; orig N American)

To start using, doing, etc (something), to bring on or into operation

meet one's maker

To meet God, to die

of one's own making

Entirely the result of one's own decisions and actions

on the make (informal)

Bent on self-advancement or promotion, or on finding a sexual partner

put the make on (slang)

To make sexual advances to

way1 /wā/

noun
  1. Passage
  2. A road, street, track
  3. (with cap) used in street names
  4. Direction of motion
  5. The correct or desired route or path
  6. Length of space, distance (also in pl (informal, esp US))
  7. District
  8. Room or opportunity to advance
  9. Freedom of action, scope
  10. Manner of life
  11. Established routine
  12. Position, as in wrong way up, other way round, etc
  13. Condition, state
  14. Advance in life
  15. Normal or habitual course or conduct
  16. (in pl) a characteristic feature of behaviour, an idiosyncrasy
  17. Manner, style
  18. Method
  19. Means
  20. Course
  21. Respect
  22. Will
  23. Progress, forward motion, as in edge one's way, eat one's way through, etc
  24. Progress or motion through the water, headway (nautical)
  25. The direction of the weave, grain, etc
  26. (in pl) the machined surfaces of the top of a lathe bed on which the carriage slides, shears (engineering)
  27. (in pl) the framework of timbers on which a ship slides when being launched
intransitive verb (Spenser)

To journey

ORIGIN: OE weg; Ger Weg; related to Sans vahati he carries and to L vehere to carry, draw

wayˈless adjective

Without a path

way baggage noun (US)

Baggage to be laid down at a way station

wayˈbill noun

  1. A list of passengers and goods carried by a public vehicle
  2. A document giving details regarding goods sent by rail or road vehicle, etc
  3. A list of places to be visited on a journey

wayˈboard or weighˈboard noun (geology)

A thin stratum or seam separating thicker strata

wayˈbread noun (OE wegbræde, from brād broad, flat; dialect)

The common plantain

wayˈfare intransitive verb (archaic)

To travel, esp on foot

noun (archaic)

Travel, esp on foot

wayˈfarer noun

A traveller, esp on foot

wayˈfaring noun and adjective

wayfaring tree noun

Viburnum lantana, a large shrub with white flowers and berries that turn red and finally black, common in hedges

way freight noun

Freight for a way station

wayˈ-going noun and adjective (Scot)

Departing

wayˈgone adjective

Exhausted by travelling

waylayˈ transitive verb (waylayˈing; waylaidˈ)

  1. To lie in ambush for
  2. To attack or seize on the way
  3. To lie in wait for in order to converse with
  4. To obstruct or intercept (obsolete)

waylayˈer noun

wayˈleave noun

Permission to pass over another's ground or property

wayˈ-maker noun

  1. A pioneer
  2. A precursor

wayˈmark noun

  1. A signpost
  2. Something that serves as a guide to a traveller

transitive verb

To mark out (a path, etc) with guideposts, signs, etc

way of life noun

  1. The style or conditions in which a person lives
  2. The living of one's life according to certain principles

Way of the Cross noun

  1. A series of pictorial representations of the stages of Christ's progress to Calvary
  2. Devotions practised in connection with these stages

way passenger noun

One picked up or set down at a way station or an intermediate point on a coach or bus route

way point noun

A point for stopping, changing course, etc, on a journey

wayˈpost noun

A guidepost

ways and means plural noun

  1. Resources
  2. Methods eg of raising money for the carrying on of government (Committee of Ways and Means the House of Commons sitting in the character of a committee to consider methods of raising money supplies; (in the USA) a permanent committee of the House of Representatives to which bills concerned with revenue are referred)

wayˈside noun

The border of a way, path or highway (fall by the wayside to fail or give up in one's attempt to do something; to drop out)

adjective

Growing, situated or lying near the wayside

way station noun (US)

An intermediate station between principal stations

way traffic noun (US)

Local traffic, as distinguished from through or express traffic

way train noun (US)

A train stopping at most of the stations on a line

way warden noun

A person appointed to supervise the upkeep of roads and footpaths in a district

wayˈwiser noun

An instrument for measuring distance travelled

wayˈworn adjective

Worn out by travel

across or over the way

On the other side of the street, etc

be by way of

To be supposed or alleged to be or be (doing, being, etc)

by or with someone's way of it (Scot)

According to someone's belief or assertion

by the way

  1. Incidentally
  2. While travelling
  3. Beside one's path

by way of

  1. Travelling through, via
  2. As if for the purpose of
  3. In character of, as a substitute for

come someone's way

To come within someone's experience or reach, to become attainable by someone

come or go someone's way

To come or go in the same direction as someone

divide three, etc, ways

To divide into three, etc portions

get or have one's or (one's own) way

To get or do what one wants

give way (to) see under give1

go all or the whole way (with) (informal)

To have sexual intercourse (with)

go one's own way

To act independently

go one's way

To depart

go out of the (or one's) way

  1. To give oneself trouble
  2. To make a special effort (to do something)

go someone's way

(of circumstances, etc) to favour someone

go the way of all flesh or all the earth

To die

have a way with

To be good at dealing with or managing (people, etc)

have a way with one

To have a fascinating personality or persuasive manner

have it both ways

(usu with a neg) to benefit from two actions, situations, arguments, etc, each of which excludes the possibility, validity, etc of the other

have it one's (or one's own) way

To do, think, etc what one pleases, with no regard for others' advice or opinions

have one's way

To carry one's point, get what one wants

have way (nautical)

(of a vessel) to be in motion

in a bad way

  1. In a serious condition
  2. Very upset

in a fair way to

Likely to succeed in

in a small (or big or large) way

On a petty (or a large or grandiose) scale

in a way

  1. To some extent
  2. From one point of view
  3. In a state of agitation or distress (old)

in his, etc way (or own way)

As far as his, etc individual merits go, leaving aside the disadvantageous aspects

in no way

Not at all

in the family way see under family

in the (or one's) way

  1. In one's path, impeding one's progress, creating an obstruction
  2. On the way

in the way of

  1. In a good position for effecting or attaining
  2. In the habit of (informal)
  3. In respect of

lead the way

To act as a guide or inspiration to others

look the other way

  1. To look away, sometimes deliberately in order not to see someone or something
  2. To take no notice esp of something calling for attention

lose the (or one's) way

To leave one's intended route by mistake and become lost

make one's way

  1. To move forward, sometimes with difficulty, to proceed
  2. To make good progress, achieve success

make way

  1. To make room
  2. To advance

no two ways about it

That is certain, there is no doubt about it

no way (informal)

Under no circumstances, absolutely not

one way and another

Considering various aspects

one way or the other

By any means possible

on the (or one's) way

  1. Moving towards a destination or event
  2. In progress
  3. At a point on one's journey

on the way out

Becoming unpopular, unfashionable, etc

out of the way

  1. So as not to hinder or obstruct
  2. Away from main routes, remote (out-of-the-wayˈ adjective)
  3. Dealt with, finished with
  4. In prison or dead and gone
  5. (usu with neg) out of the ordinary, unusual
  6. Lost, hidden (Shakespeare)

put someone in the way of

To contrive to make available to someone

take one's way

  1. To set out, proceed
  2. To follow one's own inclination or plan

the Way

The Christian Religion (from Bible, Acts 9.2, etc)

under way

  1. (of a vessel) in motion (also underway)
  2. Progressing

way to go (US inf)

An expression of praise or encouragement.
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