Definition of "make" [make]

• To cause to exist or happen; bring about; create: made problems for us; making a commotion. (verb-transitive)
• To bring into existence by shaping, modifying, or putting together material; construct: make a dress; made a stone wall. (verb-transitive)
• To form by assembling individuals or constituents: make a quorum. (verb-transitive)
• To change from one form or function to another: make clay into bricks. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to be or become: made her position clear; a decision that made him happy. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Plus, I like to check the quality of a book before I buy..make sure the glue is adequate and the cover isn't pulling away from the binding, check to make sure I am getting a 1st edition, etc."
• "I crossed the road of many Saakachvili's .. in their thirties or fourties, US-trained, long-teethed wolves fascinated by politics to make a carrier, ready to «make History» as long as History is flexible and obedient."
• "Climate change, he indicated, “will make scarce resources, clean water, viable agricultural land even scarcer”—and this will “make the emergence of violent conflict more rather than less likely."