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make out is a verb:
- To discern.
"I couldn't make out what he said, but he seemed to be quoting from something." - To designate as the recipient, the payee.
"Cheques may be made out to the Foo Bar Company." - To characterize as; often with to be.
"His version of the story makes me out to be the bad guy." - To kiss or to make love.
"We found a secluded spot where we could make out in private." - To succeed; to turn out or end up.
"Oh, you were on a TV game show? How did you make out?" - To fabricate a story.
"I had to make out that my car was stolen in order to get any insurance money."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is make out?
- Verb usage: I couldn't make out what he said, but he seemed to be quoting from something.
- Verb usage: Cheques may be made out to the Foo Bar Company.
- Verb usage: His version of the story makes me out to be the bad guy.
- Verb usage: We found a secluded spot where we could make out in private.
- Verb usage: Oh, you were on a TV game show? How did you make out?
- Verb usage: I had to make out that my car was stolen in order to get any insurance money.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of make out are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of make out, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
