On the make

Definition

make / meÇk / v ( pt, pp made / meÇd /)  Constructing or creating ျပဳလုပ္၊ တည္ေဆာက္၊ ဖန္တီး ျခင္း။ ၁။ (က) ~ sth (from /(out) of sth); ~ sth (for sb) ျပဳလုပ္သည္။ တည္ေဆာက္သည္။ ဖန္တီးသည္။ make a desk/ a dress/ a cake ❍ make bread/cement/wine ❍ make (ie manufacture) paper ❍ God made man. ❍ She makes her own clothes. ❍ Wine is made from grapes. ❍ ‘What is your bracelet made of?’ ‘It's made of gold. ’ ❍ She made coffee for us all. ❍ I made myself a cup of tea. (ခ) ~ sth into sth (esp passive) ထုတ္လုပ္သည္။ Glass is made into bottles. (ဂ) ျပင္ဆင္သည္။ စီစဥ္သည္။ Please make your beds before you go out. ၂။ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစ သည္။ The stone made a dent in the roof of my car. ❍ make a scratch on the surface of a table ❍ The holes in the cloth were made by moths. ၃။ ျပ႒ာန္းသည္။ ဖန္တီး သည္။ These regulations were made to protect children. ❍ Who made this ridiculous rule? ၄။ ေရးသားသည္။ ေရးဖြဲ႕သည္။ ေရးသား ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုသည္။ ထုတ္လုပ္သည္။ make one's will ❍ make a treaty with sb ❍ She has made (ie directed) several movies. ❍ I'll ask my lawyer to make a deed of transfer.  Causing to become, do or appear ျဖစ္ေစ၊ ျပဳေစ၊ ေပၚေပါက္ေစျခင္း။ ၅။ ျပဳသည္။ ျဖစ္ပြားေစသည္။ make a noise/ disturbance/mess/fuss ❍ Sh! Don't make a sound. ❍ It makes a change to have the house to ourselves. ❍ She tried to make a good impression on the interviewer. ❍ I keep making the same mistakes. ❍ He's making good progress at school. ❍ make an appointment. ၆။ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာေစသည္။ ေပၚလြင္ေစသည္။ The news made her happy. ❍ She made clear her objections/made it clear that she objected to the proposal. ❍ His actions made him universally respected. ❍ Can you make yourself understood in English? ❍ The full story was never made public. ❍ She couldn't make herself/her voice heard above the noise of the traffic. ၇။ (က) အတင္းအက်ပ္ခိုင္းသည္။ They made me repeat the whole story. ❍ She must be made to comply with the rules. ❍ He never cleans up his room and his mother never tries to make him. (ခ) ျပဳေစသည္။ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ Onions make your eyes water. ❍ Her jokes made us all laugh. ❍ I couldn't make my car start this morning. ❍ What makes you say that ? ❍ I rang the doorbell several times but couldn't make anyone hear. ❍ Nothing will make me change my mind. ❍ CAUSE ၈။ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္သည္။ You've made my nose too big (eg in a drawing). ❍ The novelist makes his heroine commit suicide at the end of the book. ❍ He makes Lear a truly tragic figure. ၉။ ေရြးခ်ယ္သည္။ ခန္႔ထားသည္။ make sb king/an earl/ a peer ❍ He was made spokesman by the committee. ❍ She made him her assistant. ၁၀။ ~ sth of sb/sth ျဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ We'll make a tennis player of you yet (ie turn you into a good tennis player despite the fact that you are not a good one now). ❍ This isn't very important– I don't want to make an issue of it. ❍ Don't make a habit of it. ❍ They've made a success of the enterprise. ❍ You've made a terrible mess of this job. ❍ It's important to try to make something of (ie to achieve sth in) your life. ❍ She made it her business to find out who was responsible.  Being or becoming something ျဖစ္ျခင္း၊ ျဖစ္လာျခင္း။ ၁၁။ ျဖစ္လာ(ႏိုင္)သည္။ If he keeps practising, he'll make an excellent musician. ❍ He'll never make an actor. ❍ She would have made an excellent teacher. ၁၂။ ျဖစ္လာ(ႏိုင္)သည္။ That will make a good ending to the book. ❍ This hall would make an excellent theatre. ၁၃။ (က) ျဖစ္သည္။ 5 and 7 make 12. ❍ A hundred cents make one dollar. ❍ How many members make a quorum? (ခ) ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ His thrillers make enthralling reading. ❍ The play makes a splendid evening's entertainment. ၁၄။ (စုစုေပါင္း အႀကိမ္) ျဖစ္သည္။ That makes the tenth time he's failed his driving test!  Gaining or winning ရရိွျခင္း (သို႔) ေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္း။ ၁၅။ ရသည္။ She makes £ 25 000 a year. ❍ make a profit / loss ❍ He made a fortune on the stock market. ❍ How much do you stand to make from the deal? ၁၆။ (ဘရစ္ဂ်္ဖဲကစားနည္းတြင္) (က) …ဖဲျဖင့္ တစ္ဖူရသည္။ She made her ten of hearts. (ခ) တစ္ဖူရသည္ (သို႔) ဖူလံုသည္။ We bid game and made it.  Other meanings အျခားအနက္အဓိပၸာယ္မ်ား။ ၁၇။ ေရတြက္သည္။ ခန္႔မွန္းသည္။ What time do you make it? / What do you make the time? ❍ How large do you make the audience? ❍ I make the total exactly £ 50. ❍ I make it that we've got about 70 miles to go. ၁၈။ မီသည္။ ေရာက္သည္။ ေနရာရသည္။ Do you think we'll make Oxford by midday? ❍ The flight leaves in twenty minutes – we'll never make it (ie reach the airport in time to catch it). ❍ I'm sorry I couldn't make your party last night. ❍ Her new novel has made ( ie sold enough copies to be in) the best-seller lists. ❍ She'll never make (ie win a place in) the team. ❍ The story made (ie appeared on) the front page of the national newspapers. ၁၉။ အႀကံျပဳသည္။ ကမ္းလွမ္းသည္။ Has she made you an offer (ie said how much money she would pay you) for your car ? ❍ make a suggestion /proposal ❍ The employers made a new offer to the workforce. ၂၀။ အားလံုးျပည့္စံုေစသည္။ A good wine can make a meal. ❍ It was the beautiful weather that really made the holiday. ❍ This news has really made my day. ၂၁။ ~ (as if) to do sth ေဆာင္ရြက္ေတာ့မည့္ဟန္ ျပဳမူသည္။ He made as if to speak. ❍ She made to go but he held her back. ၂၂။ (make ကို နာမ္တစ္ခုခုႏွင့္တြဲသံုး၍ ရရိွေသာ အဓိပၸာယ္သည္ ယင္းနာမ္ႏွင့္ စာလံုးေပါင္းတူေသာ ႀကိယာ၏ အဓိပၸာယ္ႏွင့္ ထပ္တူျဖစ္သည္။ ) eg make a decision, ie decide; make a guess (at sth), ie guess (at sth). n ~ ( of sth) ကုန္အမွတ္တံဆိပ္။ cars of all makes ❍ What make of radio is it? ❍ BRAND make-believe n [U] (က) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ျခင္း။ indulge in make-believe. (ခ) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ (ကမ႓ာ)။ live in a world of make-believe/ a make-believe world. ❏ make do (with sth) [ IDM ] သစ္မရခင္စပ္ၾကား ဝါးေပါင္း ကြတ္သည္။ We were in a hurry so we had to make do with a quick snack. ❍ I haven't got much money but I'll just have to make do. ❏ make for sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဦးတည္သြားသည္။ The ship made for the open sea. ❍ It's getting late; we'd better make for home. ❍ When the interval came everyone made for the bar. ၂။ …ေစသည္။ The large print makes for easier reading. ❍ Constant arguing doesn't make for a happy marriage. ❏ make good [ IDM ] ႀကီးပြားေအာင္ျမင္ လာသည္။ He made good after emigrating to America. make sth good [ IDM ] ၁။ အေလ်ာ္ေပးသည္။ ျပဳျပင္ ေပးသည္။ She promised to make good the damage / loss. ❍ The plaster will have to be made good before you paint it. ၂။ ေျပာသည့္အတိုင္း ျဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ make good a promise / threat. ❏ make sb/sth into sb/sth [ PHRV ] …ကို …အျဖစ္ ေျပာင္းသည္။ We're making our attic into an extra bedroom. ❍ The local cinema has been made into a disco. make it [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ေအာင္ျမင္သည္။ He's never really made it as an actor. ၂။ အခက္အခဲမ်ား လြန္ေျမာက္သည္။ It was a terrible journey but we finally made it. ၃။ တက္ေရာက္သည္။ I'm afraid I won't be able to make it to your party next week. ❏ make it up to sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အေလ်ာ္ေပးသည္။ အစားေပးသည္။ ေက်းဇူးတံု႔ျပန္သည္။ I'm sorry I can't take you out today—I'll make it up to you next week. ❍ Thanks for buying my ticket— I'll make it up to you later. ❏ make it with sb [ PHRV ] ( sl ) လိင္ဆက္ဆံသည္။ ❏ make the most of sth/sb/oneself [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ႏိုင္သမွ် အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ရေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သည္။ make the most of one's chances/opportunities/talents ❍ It's my first holiday for two years so I'm going to make the most of it. ❍ She certainly tries to make the most of herself (eg by developing or displaying her good qualities). make much of sth/sb [ IDM ] ၁။ ေကာင္းစြာ နားလည္ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ I couldn't make much of what he was saying, could you? ၂။ အေလးထားသည္။ တန္ဖိုးထားသည္။ He always makes much of his humble origins. ❏ make sth of sb/sth [ PHRV ] နားလည္ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ What do you make of it all? ❍ What are we to make of her behaviour? ❍ I don't know what to make of (ie think of) the new manager. ❍ I can make nothing of this scribble. ❏ make off [ PHRV ] ( infml ) လစ္ေျပးသည္။ The thieves made off in a stolen car. ❏ make off with sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) သုတ္သြားသည္။ Two boys made off with our cases while we weren't looking. ❏ make or break sb/sth [ IDM ] ေသေျမႀကီး ရွင္ေရႊထီး။ The council's decision will make or break the local theatre. ❍ It's make-or-break time for the company. make out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( infml ) ေနသည္။ စခန္းသြား သည္။ အဆင္ေျပသည္။ How did he make out while his wife was away ? ❍ How are you making out with Mary ? (ie How is your relationship with her developing?). ၂။ ( US sl ) အလုပ္ျဖစ္သည္။ စခန္းသြားသည္။ ❏ make sb out [ PHRV ] သူ႕သေဘာကို သိသည္။ What a strange person she is! I can't make her out at all. ❏ make sb/sth out [ PHRV ] ျမင္ႏိုင္သည္။ ဖတ္ႏိုင္သည္။ ၾကားႏိုင္သည္။ I could just make out a figure in the darkness. ❍ Can you make out what that sign says? ❍ I could hear voices but I couldn't make out what they were saying. ❏ make sth out [ PHRV ] ေရးသည္။ ျဖည့္သြင္းသည္။ make out a cheque for £ 10 ❍ Applications must be made out in triplicate. ❍ The doctor made out a prescription for me. ❏ make sth out; make out if/whether… [ PHRV ] သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ နားလည္သည္။ I can't make out what she wants. ❍ How do you make that out ? (ie How did you reach that conciusion?) ❍ I can't make out if she enjoys her job or not. ❏ make out that…; make oneself/sb/sth out to be… [ PHRV ] ဆိုသည္။ ေျပာသည္။ He made out that he had been robbed. ❍ She's not as rich as people make out/as people make her out to be. ❍ He makes himself out to be cleverer than he really is. ❏ make sth over (to sb/sth) [ PHRV ] လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးသည္။ He has made over the whole property to his eldest son. ❏ make something of oneself [ IDM ] ႀကိဳးစားမႈျဖင့္ တိုးတက္ေအာင္ျမင္သည္။ make-up n ၁။ [U] မိတ္ကပ္။ apply/put on make-up ❍ She never wears make-up. ၂။ [sing] (က) ပင္ကိုသေဘာ။ Jealousy is not part of his make-up. (ခ) ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံု။ change the make-up of the committee (ie replace some of the people who work on it). ၃။ [C usu sing ] ပံုႏိွပ္ စာမ်က္ႏွာ အျပင္အဆင္။ ၄။ [C] ( US ) မေျဖလိုက္ရသူ၊ က်႐ံႈးသူအတြက္ သီးသန္႔ က်င္းပေပးေသာ စာေမးပြဲ။ ❏ make up; make oneself/sb up [ PHRV ] မိတ္ကပ္ လိမ္းျခယ္သည္။ She spent an hour making (herself) up before the party. ❍ She's always very heavily made up. make sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားသည္။ ပါဝင္သည္။ Animal bodies are made up of cells. ❍ What are the qualities that make up her character ? ❍ Society is made up of people of widely differing abilities. ၂။ ျပင္သည္။ make up a bundle of old clothes for the refugees ❍ She made up a basket of food for the picnic. ၃။ ထြင္သည္။ ဖန္တီးသည္။ make up an excuse ❍ I told the children a story, making it up as I went along. ❍ Stop making things up ! ၄။ ျဖည့္သည္။ We still need $ 100 to make up the sum required. ❍ We have ten players, so we need one more to make up a team. ၅။ အစားထိုးသည္။ အစားေပးသည္။ ေလ်ာ္ေပးသည္။ ေထသည္။ Our losses will have to be made up with more loans. ❍ Can I leave early this afternoon and make up the time tomorrow? ၆။ ေဆးေဖာ္သည္။ ေဆးစပ္သည္။ The pharmacist made up the prescription. ၇။ အဝတ္အထည္ ခ်ဳပ္ သည္။ make up a dress from a pattern. ၈။ အိပ္ရာခင္းသည္။ အိပ္ရာျပင္သည္။ We made up the bed in the spare room for our guest. ❍ They made up a bed for me on the sofa. ၉။ ေလာင္စာ ျဖည့္တင္းသည္။ ထပ္ထည့္သည္။ The fire needs making up (ie needs to have more coal put on it). ❏ make up for sth [ PHRV ] အစားထိုးသည္။ ေထမိေစသည္။ Hard work can make up for a lack of intelligence. ❍ Nothing can make up for the loss (ie death) of a child. ❍ The beautiful autumn made up for the wet summer. ❍ After all the delays, we were anxious to make up for lost time. ❏ make up (to sb) for sth [ PHRV ] ေက်ရာေက်ေၾကာင္း ျပဳလုပ္သည္။ How can I make up for the way I've treated you? ❏ make up to sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) မ်က္ႏွာလုပ္သည္။ He's always making up to the boss. ❏ make (it) up (with sb) [ PHRV ] ျပန္လည္ သင့္ျမတ္သည္။ ျပန္ေပါင္းထုပ္သည္။ Why don't you two kiss and make up? ❍ Has he made it up with her yet/Have they made it up yet? ❏ on the make [ IDM ] ( infml derog ) အျမတ္ထုတ္ျခင္း။

Examples

1. Jane made coffee while the guests were finishing their dessert.
2. She makes all her own clothes.
3. [made in] : This furniture is made in South America.
4. [make something from something] : They make paper from old rags.
5. [make something out of something] : We made curtains out of some old material we found.
6. [made (out) of something] : A bowl made of metal/plastic/wood
7. [make someone something] : Joan made me a beautiful dress for my wedding.
8. [make something about someone/something] : They’re making a TV programme about the case.
9. [make a hole/scratch/dent etc in something] : Something’s made a scratch in the counter.
10. Over 340 arrests were made.
11. [make an attempt/effort] : Helen made no attempt to stop him.
12. [make a decision] : No one wanted to make a clear decision on the project.
13. [make a mistake/error] : Nobody’s perfect – we all make mistakes.
14. [make progress] : We’ve made some progress
15. but there’s still a long way to go.
16. [make a change/alteration/adjustment etc] : People can eat more healthily without making major changes to their diet.
17. [make a contribution] : This study makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the disease.
18. [make a noise/sound] : Stop making so much noise!
19. [make a note of something] : Matthew made a note of the car’s number and informed the police.
20. [make a statement/suggestion/complaint etc] : The minister will make a statement on that issue later today.
21. [make someone do something] : This film always makes me cry.
22. [make yourself heard/understood etc] : I know enough Japanese to make myself understood.
23. [make something difficult/easy etc] : The noise in the school makes learning difficult.
24. [make someone feel ill/sad/strange etc] : The smell of fish makes me feel ill.
25. [make someone look fat/thin/younger etc] : That haircut makes you look ten years younger.
26. [make someone happy/sad/angry etc] : Listening to the news just makes me angry these days.
27. [make something nice/pretty/attractive etc] : I want to make the place nice for when they arrive.
28. [make someone famous/popular etc] : It was television that made her so popular.
29. [make it clear/obvious/plain etc (that)] : I’d like to make it clear that I had nothing to do with this.
30. [make it known/understood (that)] : She made it known that she was the mayor’s wife.
31. [make someone something] : They made him head teacher after Joanne left.
32. I’m not going to apologize and you can’t make me!
33. [make someone do something] : They made us work for 12 hours a day.
34. They made him tell the truth by depriving him of food.
35. [be made to do something] : We were made to learn fifty new words every week.
36. [make an appointment/date] : I’ve made an appointment for you with the doctor for tomorrow morning.
37. She makes about £2
38. 000 a month.
39. [make money] : You can make a lot of money playing the stock market.
40. [make a living] : Can you make a living from painting?
41. [make a profit] : The company made a small profit in its first year.
42. Four and two make six.
43. I make that £750 after tax.
44. It was the children’s choir that really made the performance.
45. Diane would make a good teacher – she’s so patient.
46. Don’t you think the novel would make a great film?
47. At this rate we won’t make Jedda before midnight.
48. Dan just managed to make his 7 o’clock flight to Toronto.
49. We can’t make the conference after all.
50. We’ve made our target of 10
51. 000 sales this month.
52. [make a deadline] : They’ll never make the deadline now that the computers have crashed.
53. [make the headlines/papers/news etc] : Their search for a heart donor made the headlines in April.
54. [make a team/squad] : Dawson has failed to make the team for Saturday’s big match.