Real Dictionary

make achieving or reaching
verb: If someone makes a particular team or makes a particular high position, they do so well that they are put in that team or get that position.
verb: If you make a place in or by a particular time, you get there in or by that time, often with some difficulty.

make carrying out an action
verb: If you make as if to do something or make to do something, you behave in a way that makes it seem that you are just about to do it.
verb: In cricket, if a player makes a particular number of runs, they score that number of runs. In baseball or American football, if a player makes a particular score, they achieve that score.
verb: You can use make with a wide range of nouns to indicate that someone performs an action or says something. For example, if you make a suggestion, you suggest something.
verb: You can use make with certain nouns to indicate that someone does something well or badly. For example, if you make a success of something, you do it successfully, and if you make a mess of something, you do it very badly.

make causing or changing
verb: If something makes you do something, it causes you to do it.
verb: If you make someone do something, you force them to do it.
verb: If you make yourself understood, heard, or known, you succeed in getting people to understand you, hear you, or know that you are there.
verb: If you say that one thing or person makes another seem, for example, small, stupid, or good, you mean that they cause them to seem small, stupid, or good in comparison, even though they are not.
verb: You use make to talk about causing someone or something to be a particular thing or to have a particular quality. For example, to make someone a star means to cause them to become a star, and to make someone angry means to cause them to become angry.

make creating or producing
verb: If someone makes a film or television programme, they are involved in creating or producing it.
verb: To make something means to produce, construct, or create it.

make in American English 1
to bring into being
intransitive verb: to cause oneself, or something understood, to be as specified
transitive verb: to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc

make in American English 2
an equal; peer
noun: a peer or equal

make in British English 1
verb: to bring into being by shaping, changing, or combining materials, ideas, etc; form or fashion; create

make in British English 2
noun: a peer or consort

make link verb uses
link verb: If people make a particular pattern such as a line or a circle, they arrange themselves in this way.
link verb: You can use make to say that someone or something has the right qualities for a particular task or role. For example, if you say that someone will make a good politician, you mean that they have the right qualities to be a good politician.
link verb: You can use make to say what two numbers add up to.

make stating an amount or time
verb: You use make it when saying what time your watch says it is.
verb: You use make it when saying what you calculate or guess an amount to be.