VERB | perception | make out, spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, tell apart | detect with the senses |
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communication | make out, write out, issue, cut | make out and issue | |
cognition | make out | comprehend | |
stative | make out, do, fare, come, get along | proceed or get along | |
social | make out, cope, get by, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage | come to terms with | |
contact | make out, 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, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk | have sexual intercourse with | |
contact | make out, neck | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion | |
communication | make out, complete, fill out, fill in | write all the required information onto a form | |
communication | make out | imply or suggest | |
communication | make out | try to establish |
Meaning | detect with the senses. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
Example | "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" | |
Synonyms | spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, tell apart | |
Entails | perceive, comprehend | To become aware of through the senses |
Narrower | discriminate | distinguish |
resolve | make clearly visible | |
Spanish | detectar, discernir, distinguir, percibir, reconocer, sentir, vislumbrar | |
Catalan | albirar, detectar, dicenrnir, discernir, distingir, reconèixer, sentir |
Meaning | make out and issue. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Model | The banks make out the check | |
Synonyms | write out, issue, cut | |
Narrower | check | write out a check on a bank account |
Broader | write | Communicate by letter |
Spanish | cancelar, emitir, expender, extender, redactar |
Meaning | comprehend. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "I cannot make out what this politician is saying" | |
Broader | understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning / meaning of |
Spanish | comprender, entender |
Meaning | proceed or get along. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective | |
Synonyms | do, fare, come, get along | |
Broader | proceed, go | Follow a certain course |
Spanish | andar, arreglárselas, desenvolverse, ir, salir, viajar |
Meaning | Come to terms with. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Synonyms | cope, get by, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage | |
Narrower | fend | try to manage without help |
hack, cut | Be able to manage or manage successfully | |
improvise, extemporize | manage in a makeshift way | |
scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along | manage one's existence barely | |
Broader | act, move | Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) |
Spanish | abordar, arreglárselas, conformarse, contender, encarar, grapar, industriarse, ingeniarse, soportar, tramitar, tratar | |
Catalan | abordar, encarar, enfrontar-se, fer front a, plantar cara a, resistir, sortir-se'n, suportar, tramitar |
Meaning | Have sexual intercourse with. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Synonyms | 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, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk | |
Entailed by | consummate | fulfill sexually |
seduce, score, make | induce to have sex | |
Narrower | fornicate | have sex without being married |
take, have | have sex with | |
Broader | copulate, mate, pair, couple | Engage in sexual intercourse |
Similar to | neck, make out | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion |
Spanish | acostarse, cachar, cepillarse, chingar, coger, conocer, copular, culear, encantar, follarse, follar, garchar, hacer el amor, jalar, joder, pichar, saber, tirarse, tirar, vergar | |
Catalan | cardar, encantar, fer l'amor, fer un clau, follar, fotre un clau, fotre, saber, tirar-se |
Meaning | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonym | neck | |
Narrower | smooch, spoon | snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others |
Broader | pet | Stroke or caress gently |
Similar to | sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, 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, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk | Have sexual intercourse with |
Spanish | acariciarse, besuquearse |
Meaning | Write all the required information onto a form. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "make out a form" | |
Synonyms | complete, fill out, fill in | |
Entails | write down, set down, get down, put down | put down in writing |
Spanish | completar, rellenar | |
Catalan | completar, emplenar |
Meaning | Imply or suggest. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
Broader | suggest, intimate | Imply as a possibility |
Meaning | try to establish. | |
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Pattern | It ----s that CLAUSE | |
Broader | claim | assert or affirm strongly |
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