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MADE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Produced by a manufacturing process
Example:
bought some made goods at the local store; rope and nails
Classified under:
Similar:
ready-made (made for purchase and immediate use)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order
Example:
a neatly made bed
Classified under:
Antonym:
unmade ((of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Successful or assured of success
Example:
now I am a made man forever
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb make
Context examples:
A green-covered book appeared, with the same picture inside, and a few words written by their mother, which made their one present very precious in their eyes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
That night we moored our canoes with heavy stones for anchors in the center of the stream, and made every preparation for a possible attack.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She only shook her own head at him, but in a way that made him quail.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And he could hear the crashing of their bodies through the undergrowth, and the noises they made in the night.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in my cabinet.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He gave up all pretence at conversation and sat, smoking endless cigarettes, lost in his own thoughts, but he made no remark as to the contents.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At last, however, the party was made up.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My first thought was to discover what I knew of the murderer, and cause instant pursuit to be made.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
So matters stood between them at the time when peace was made and my father came home from the sea.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
