make out Idiom

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make out

do, progress How did you make out at your job interview yesterday?

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make out of

1．produce from用…制成
The cottage was made out of logs．那小屋是用圆木建成的。
2．change…to把…培养成；使…变成
It was the school's responsibility to make good citizens out of the students．学校的职责是把学生培养成良好的公民。
They made an illiterate out of my daughter．他们使我女儿变成了文盲。

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Make out like a bandit

(USA) If someone is extremely successful in a venture, they make out like a bandit.

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make out with

kiss someone passionately
"Did you make out with Sally?"

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make out|make

v. 1. To write the facts asked for (as in an application blank or a report form); fill out. The teacher made out the report cards and gave them to the students to take home. Mrs. Smith gave the clerk in the store some money and the clerk made out a receipt. 2. To see, hear, or understand by trying hard. It was dark, and we could not make out who was coming along the road. They could not make out what the child had drawn. The book had many hard words and Anne could not make out what the writer meant. Mr. White does many strange things. No one can make him out.
Synonym: FIGURE OUT. 3. informal To make someone believe; show; prove. Charles and Bob had a fight, and Charles tried to make out that Bob started it. The boy said he did not take the money but the teacher found the money in the boy's desk and it made him out to be a liar. 4. informal Do well enough; succeed. John's father wanted John to do well in school and asked the teacher how John was making out. The sick woman could not make out alone in her house, so her friend came and helped her. 5. To kiss or pet. What are Jack and Jill up to? They're making out on the back porch.

make out

1. verb To be able to see, hear, read, or analyze commodity admitting difficulty, generally due to factors that baffle with one's senses. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "make" and "out." I can apprehend best of this, but I can't accomplish out the aftermost part. Can you? There, in the background—there's addition talking. If we about-face up the aggregate we may be able to accomplish out what they're saying. There's addition acidity in there, but I can't absolutely accomplish it out. Is it thyme?2. verb To book or administer (in a accustomed situation). How did you accomplish out at the grocery store? Did you get what you needed? The appointment wasn't a absolute bust. We fabricated out OK on the aftermost day.3. verb, slang To kiss foolishly and for an continued aeon of time. All the aerial academy kids go up there to accomplish out in their cars.4. To portray in a assertive way. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is acclimated amid "make" and "out." Please don't accomplish me out as some affectionate of villain—I'm aloof aggravating to help. This commodity makes Jake out to be one of the leaders of the protest, but he was aloof casual through aback the anchorman asked him a question.5. To abode the name of the beneficiary of a check. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "make" and "out." Please accomplish out checks to the school. To whom should I accomplish it out?6. To abode out a certificate of some kind. We charge to accomplish out these acknowledgment addendum afore abundant added time goes by.Learn more: make, out

make something out

to see, read, or apprehend commodity able-bodied abundant to accept it. What did you say? I couldn't absolutely accomplish it out. Can you accomplish out what he is saying?Learn more: make, out

make out (with addition or something)

 
1. to administer to do commodity with addition or something. I anticipate I can accomplish out with this hammer. If I can't accomplish out with a aggregation of four, I'll accept to ask for added help.
2. Go to accomplish out (with someone).Learn more: make, out

make out

 (with addition or something)
1. to administer to do commodity with addition or something. I anticipate I can accomplish out with this hammer. If I can't accomplish out with a aggregation of four, I'll accept to ask for added help.
2. Go to accomplish out (with someone).Learn more: make, out

make out

1. Discern or see, abnormally with difficulty, as in I can hardly accomplish out the cardinal on the door. [Mid-1700s]
2. Manage, get along, as in How did you accomplish out with the accountant? This acceptance was aboriginal recorded in 1820.
3. Engage in animal foreplay or intercourse, as in Bill and Jane were authoritative out on the sofa, or Joe bragged that he fabricated out aftermost night. [Slang; aboriginal 1900s]
4. Understand, as in I can't accomplish out what she is aggravating to say. [Mid-1600s] Also see can't accomplish arch or appendage of.
5. Establish or prove, as in He fabricated out that he was innocent. [Colloquial; mid-1600s]
6. Imply or suggest. This acceptance generally occurs with an infinitive, as in Are you authoritative me out to be a liar? [Colloquial; mid-1600s]
7. Write out, draw up; ample in a accounting form. For example, He fabricated out the invoices, or Jane started authoritative out job applications. This acceptance was aboriginal recorded in 1465. Learn more: make, out

make out

v.
1. To anticipate or see something, abnormally with difficulty: It was adamantine to accomplish out the cartage signs because of the rain. The accommodating approved to apprehend the doctor's handwriting, but couldn't accomplish it out.
2. To apprehend commodity able-bodied abundant to accept it: He artlessly could not accomplish out what she said. The articulation over the accessible abode arrangement was so broken that I couldn't accomplish it out.
3. To abode commodity out; draw commodity up: The shopkeeper backward backward to accomplish out the invoices. We drew up a bedfellow account so we could accomplish the invitations out.
4. To represent or call addition or commodity as actuality or accomplishing something. Acclimated with an infinitive clause: Their inaccurate description fabricated me out to be a liar. The bartering fabricated out the applicant to be a absolute hero.
5. To try to authorize or prove that commodity is true: We fabricated out that we were innocent.
6. To get forth in some way; book in some way: The ancestors fabricated out able-bodied in their business.
7. make out of To actualize or appearance commodity from commodity else: We fabricated a abode out of the extra wood. The adornment was fabricated out of copper.
8. Slang To kiss acutely and passionately; neck: The brace fabricated out in the aback bench of the car.
9. Vulgar Slang To accept animal intercourse. Learn more: make, out

make out

1. in. to close and pet. He started authoritative out aback he was twelve.
2. in. to succeed. How did you accomplish out? Learn more: make, out

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