Make Out

Definition: Make Out

Make Out

Verb

1. Detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph".

2. Make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me".

3. Comprehend; "I cannot make out what this politician is saying".

4. Proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?" "How are you making out in graduate school?" "He's come a long way".

5. Come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day".

6. Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?".

7. Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car".

8. Write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form".

9. Imply or suggest: "Your remarks make me out to be stupid".

10. : try to establish: "She made out that she know nothing about the crime".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Make Out

Demonstration

Make out, make out a case; prove one's point, have the best of the argument; draw a conclusion; (judge).

Discovery

Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.

Dueness

Demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.

Evidence

Have a case, make out a case; establish, authenticate, substantiate, verify, make good, quote chapter and verse; bring home to, bring to book.

Intelligibility

Understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding.

Interpretation

Find out; a the meaning; of; read; spell out, make out; decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve; read between the lines.

Knowledge

Conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy, appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience.

Crosswords: Make Out

We'll make out. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Make out contest (Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd; writing credit: Dayyan Eng)

Do you wanna make out with me (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Johnny, what can you make out of this (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

How shall I make out the report on him, Captain (D.O.A.; writing credit: John Paxton)

Make Out Madam (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A.K.A. Chip Harrison: Including: Make Out With Murder and the Topless Tulip Caper (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Make out King (reference)

• Nick At Night - Fonzie's Make Out Music (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Try to make out my theory and your income tax work will look simple! / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress.

What every husband knows. Ed, please make out those checks! The bills are all ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But this being supposed, it seems to some a very great difficulty, how any one should ever come to have a property in any thing: I will not content myself to answer, that if it be difficult to make out property, upon a supposition that God gave the world to Adam, and his posterity in common, it is impossible that any man, but one universal monarch, should have any property upon a supposition, that God gave the world to Adam, and his heirs in succession, exclusive of all the rest of his posterity. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

What they were I could not at all make out, but some mysterious change seemed instantly to pass over us.

She may have intended nothing by this, but Jean Valjean thought he could make out that she did.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "make out": make out a bill ♦ make out a case ♦ make out an account ♦ make out by touch ♦ make out one's case ♦ To make out. Additional references.

Albanian

mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out), tregoj (argue, bear, bespeak, betoken, bring out, connotate, connote, denote, designate, direct, display, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, express oneself, extend, finger, give away, indicate, infer, manifest, narrate, note, point out, present, proclaim, produce, profess, prove, read, recite, relate, show, show round, spiel, spin out, tell, tell tales, yield), plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, consummate, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make good, make up, meet, perfect, perform, process, realize, refill, replenish, satisfy, supplement, supply), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), kuptoj (apprehend, catch, comprehend, cotton on, fathom, figure out, find, gather, get, grasp, penetrate, perceive, pick out, Pierce, see, see through, sense, take, take in, twig on, understand). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏نجح (achieve, arrive, bring off, click, flourish, get on, get through, go off well, make, make a go of it, make efficient, make good, make the grade, manage, pan, pan out, pass, prosper, pull off, pull through, succeed, thrive, triumph, win out, work it), ‏لاحظ (catch sight of, eye, keep an eye on, look at, note, notice, observe, perceive, realize, recognize, regard, remark, see, spy, take notice, twig, view), ‏غازل (court, dally, flirt, make a pass at, mash, pet, philander, spoon, sue), ‏برهن (demonstrate, establish, evidence, evince, manifest, prove, reason, show, vouch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съставям (compile, compose, compound, design, draw, draw up, form, frame, indite, make, plot, strike), съзирам (behold, descry, discern, espy, make, open, raise, set eyes on, sight), стигам до заключение, успявам (answer, be in time for, get on, hack, manage, pan out, pull off, succeed, win through), разгадавам (puzzle out, read, study, unpuzzle, unriddle, unthread), разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, penetrate, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand, work out), твърдя че е, написвам (make, produce, put down, scratch, transcribe, turn out, write, write out), проумявам (figure out, penetrate, see daylight, work out), представям точно, попълвам (bridge, complete, fill in, fill up, make up, replenish, supply). (various references)

Czech

vyhotovit, složit (close, compose, deposit, fold, indite, lay down, pack, piece together, pile up, put down, put together, set down, tackle, take, take down, throw), sestavit (assemble, compile, draw up, erect, frame, make, make up, piece together, put together, set), rozeznat (differentiate, discern, pick out, tell). (various references)

Dutch

van zijn goed recht doen blijken (to make out one's case). (various references)

Finnish

selittää (account for, explain, expound, interpret), saada selvä jostakin (detect, discover, find out), saada jokin selville (detect, discover, find out), antaa (accord, afford, allow, convey, give, hand pass on, issue, jättää pantiksi, leave as a pledge, let, lodge as a security, pledge, present, render, to give, yield). (various references)

French

s'en tirer, prouver, feindre, faire savoir, distinguer (mark off, mark out), comprendre, affirmer. (various references)

German

erstellen (appoint, construct, create, draw up, erect, to appoint), ausfüllen (complete, fill, fill in, fill out, fill up, filled, to fill out, write), ausfertigen (draw up), ausmachen (agree, amount to, arrange, come to, constitute, determine, dig up, go to make up, locate, make, make up, matter, put off, put out, set, settle, to account for, turn off, turn out), ausschreiben (advertise, advertise for bids, announce, call, fill out, invite tenders for, write in full, write out), ausstellen (display, exhibit, issue, show, switch off, to issue, utter, write, write out), behaupten (affirm, allege, argue, assert, assure, aver, claim, contend, declare, defend, maintain, predicate, pretend, pronounce, purport, state, to affirm, to argue, to assent, to claim, to claim kindred with someone, to suggest), aufstellen (arrange, array, collect together, deploy, deployment, dispose, draw up, embattle, erect, establish, fix up, install, lay, lay down, line up, make up, Marshal, Mount, nominate, pick, pitch, placement, play, pose, posit, position, post, prick up, put forward, put on, put out, put up, raise, range, select, set, set out, set up, situate, stand up, station, to embattle, to post), erkennen (appreciate, appreciation, detect, discern, discover, identify, know, perceive, realize, recognize, see, spot, to detect, to discern, to realize, trace, understand), zusammenstellen (arrange, assemble, assort, collect together, collocate, compilate, compile, compose, concoct, draft, draw up, lump together, pick, put together, set, to assemble, to assort, to compilate, to compose), fummeln (fiddle, fumble, grope, pet), knutschen (neck, necking, pet, petting, smooch, to smooch, to snog), schaffen (accomplish, achieve, artistic work, bundle, bundle off, cause, cope, create, creation, enforce, establish, make, manage, open up, pull off, put away, score, see off, to create, work), schlau werden aus (work out), schreiben (communication, compose, letter, missive, produce, production, put, score, scribble, send away, spell, to write, type, write, write away, write in, write out, writing, written), verstehen (apprehend, catch, fathom, follow, got it, hear, interpret, know, perceive, read, realize, see, take, to apprehend, to understand, understand, understanding, understood), zurechtkommen (come in time, cope, get on, manage), entziffern (break, decipher, decode, spell out, to decipher). (various references)

Greek 

γράφω επιταγή (make out a cheque), ξεχωρίζω (assort, discriminate, distinguish, distinguish between, individualize, know, separate, single, single out, singularize, tell, tell apart), προσποιούμαι (affect, feign, feint, make believe, pretend, pretend to, sham, simulate), φτιάχνω (construct, do up, fix, make), διακρίνω (descry, detect, differentiate, discern, distinguish). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תמזמז (canoodle, dally, flirt, fool around, neck, pet), ל�"כיר (ascertain, find out, know, realize, recognize, spot, tell, understand), ל�"בין (apprehend, comprehend, follow, gather, grasp, know, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, take, take in, understand), ל�"בחין (discern, discriminate, know, notice, observe, perceive, recognize, spot, spy, tell), ל�"סת�"ר (be arranged, be organized, get along, get by, manage), ל�'לות (discover, find out, rumble, trace, unveil). (various references)

Hungarian

kivesz (elicit, get out, pull out, take out, to draw out, to except, to expel, to rent, to scour away, to take out, to unclench, to unclinch), összeállít (assemble, collocate, compile, compose, edit, frame, piece together, shook, to aggregate, to compile, to erect, to make up, to patch, to piece together, to refit), értelmez (construe, interpret, to construe, to define, to elucidate, to expound, to interpret, to translate, translate). (various references)

Italian

scorgere (behold, descry, notice, perceive, sight, spy), far finta, comporre (arrange, compose, compound, dial, form, frame, indite, make, make up, score, settle), capire (apprehend, bottom, catch, comprehend, get, penetrate, perceive, pin down, push, read, realise, realize, see, see through, take in, to understand, twig, understand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

いじり回す (cheerfully, excitedly, flirt, to dally, to flirt with, to tinker with, to twist up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いちゃいちゃ (flirt). (various references)

Manx

jannoo magh (content, deduce, define, determine, divine, purvey, purveyance, satisfy, seek out, supply, think out, work out, work out as position). (various references)

Pig Latin

akemay outay.(various references)

Portuguese

supor (assume, conjecture, consider, dream, expect, fancy, guess, imagine, presume, see, suppose, surmise, think, ween), provar (argue, attempt, attest, deraign, evidence, evince, fit on, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, substantiate, taste, test, testify, to try, try, try on, try out), estabelecer (base, build up, constitute, determine, enplane, enter into, erect, establish, fix, fix up, found, implant, impose, institute, lay down, make, make up, ordain, organize, prescribe, seat, set, set up, settle, situate, stipulate), emitir (beam, emit, fling, give out, issue, pose, pour, publish, send, spit, transmit, vocalize), elaborar (elaborate, finish, formulate, labor, labour, make, prepare), decifrar (clear up, decipher, decode, find, guess, read, resolve, spell out, unriddle, unscramble), compreender (bottom, catch, catch on, compass, comprehend, comprise, conceive, consist, embrace, get, grasp, grip, have, imply, know, perceive, plumb, read, realize, see, sense, sympathize, take in, to understand, twig, understand). (various references)

Romanian

pretinde (allege, assert, challenge, charge, claim, command, contend, exact, insist, maintain, make oneself out, pretend, purport, require), o duce, elibera (clear, clear out, deliver, discharge, disengage, emancipate, enfranchise, exonerate, free, give, issue, liberate, manumit, privilege, ransom, release, remand, remit, rescue, rid, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unhand, unshackle, vacate), dovedi (accomplish, argue, attest, authenticate, aver, confirm, demonstrate, educe, establish, evidence, evince, furnish evidence of, make good, manifest, overbear, prove, show, substantiate, verify, witness), considera (call, consider, count, debate, deem, describe as, esteem, examine, fancy, feel, find, give smb. credit for, guess, hold, interpret, judge, make, personalize, put, rank, rate, regard, see, think), înţelege cu greutate. (various references)

Russian 

уяснить (understand), разобрать (analyse, analyze, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, sort out, study out, take to pieces, unmake), различить, разбирать (analyse, analyze, construe, decipher, demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unmake), понять (awake, realize, seize, understand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razabrati (see), protumačiti (construe, have out, interpret), napisati (indite, inscribe, pencil, put together, write, write out, write up), imati uspeha (make the grade). (various references)

Spanish

representar (act, act for, act out, body, depict, do, enact, give, look, perform, play, portray, put on, put up, represent, represent again, show, stage, stand for, typify), redactar (draw out, draw up, edit, make up, phrase, put, redact, word, write), llenar (beset, complete, cover, crowd, encumber, equate, fill, fill in, fill out, fill up, load, occupy, pack, stuff, take up), justificar (justify, make good, make on, objectify, prove, rectify, substantiate, test, try, try on, warrant), fingir (act, affect, dissemble, fake, feign, Fox, give as an excuse, make believe, mint, pretend, sham, simulate), extender (carry, draw, draw up, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hold out, issue, lay, lay down, lay out, make bigger, obtrude, open, open out, open up, overblow, prolong, put forth, put out, renew, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch out, string out, unfold, unfurl, widen, write out), exponer (abandon, advance, bring, cover, display, exhibit, explain, expose, expound, hold an exhibition, lay out, present, put, put forward, put on show, put up, risk, set forth, set forward, set out, show, state, unfold), expedir (abandon, abdicate, deal with, dismiss, dispatch, draw up, expedite, give up, issue, leave, register, send, send away, send off, ship, ship off, turn away), entender (believe, catch up, comprehend, cotton on, figure up, get, grasp, hear, infer, intend, interpret, mean, realise, realize, think, understand), distinguir (discriminate, distinguish, mark off, mark out, pick out, signalize, tell, tell apart), descifrar (break, break a code, decipher, decode, decrypt, figure out, puzzle out, read, unravel, unscramble), arreglarse (adapt, come to terms, fend for oneself, freshen oneself up, freshen up, get along, get by, make shift, manage, posh oneself up, preen, prim oneself up, shake down, smarten, smarten up, tidy, tidy up, titivate, trim up, work out). (various references)

Swedish

urskilja (discern, distinguish, espy, pick out, tell), skriva ut (discharge, print, transcribe, write out), komplettera (complete, piece out), klara sig (do, fare, get along, get by, last, manage, pull, rub along, shift), hångla (neck, snog), göra upp (arrange, bargain, compound, contract, even up, reckon, settle, strike), fylla i (charge, fill in, fill out, fill up, pour in), första (chief, earliest, first, foremost, front, initial, initiative, original, primary, principal), bevista (attend, be present, witness). (various references)

Thai

โต้แย้ง (make out a case (against / for), rebut, side against). (various references)

Turkish

ilişki kurmak (contact, familiarize, have intercourse with, have it off, hook up, hump, interrelate, liaise, make, make contact, relate, tie in, tie up), idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rein in, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise), geçinmek (earn a living, get along, get along with, getting on with, go along, handle, make a living, make both ends meet, manage, rub along, subsist, support oneself), farketmek (become aware of, catch sight, descry, detect, discern, discover, distinguish, espy, know, make a difference, note, notice, observe, perceive, realize, recognize, remark, see, take notice), başarmak (accomplish, achieve, arrive, bring home the bacon, bring off, carry out, carry through, click, come through, compass, conquer, contrive, get things done, get through, hit the mark, negotiate, overcome, pan out, pan out well, prosper, pull off, sew up, succeed, swing, tackle, win through), anlam çıkarmak (get a grip on, infer, judge), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukrainian

розрізняти (appreciate, perceive), виписувати (write out), доводити (approve, argue, aver, avouch, demonstrate, evidence, evince, manifest, prove). (various references)

exhaurio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: oakum.

-3 letters: amok, atom, auto, kame, keto, make, mako, mate, maut, meat, meou, meta, moat, moke, mote, moue, mute, take, tame, teak, team, toea, toke, tome.

-4 letters: amu, ate, auk, eat, eau, emu, eta, kae, kat, kea, koa, kue, mae, mat, met, moa, mot, mut, oak, oat, oka, oke, out, tae, tam, tao.

+2 letters: automaker.

+3 letters: automakers, mountebank.

+4 letters: mountebanks.

+5 letters: backcourtmen, mountebanked, troublemaker.