Made
[meɪd] or [med]
Definition
(adj.) produced by a manufacturing process; 'bought some made goods at the local store; rope and nails' .
(adj.) (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order; 'a neatly made bed' .
(adj.) successful or assured of success; 'now I am a made man forever'- Christopher Marlowe .
Edited by Albert--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) See Mad, n.
(-) imp. & p. p. of Make.
(a.) Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar.
(imp. & p. p.) of Make
Editor: Milton
Definition
pa.t. and pa.p. of make.—Made continually (Pr. Bk.) established for ever; Made dish a dish of meat &c. recooked: an entré–? Made up put together finished: dressed for a part disguised: perfect: artificial invented.
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Examples
- The wind, indeed, seemed made for the scene, as the scene seemed made for the hour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Miss Havisham sat listening (or it seemed so, for I could not see her face), but still made no answer. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It made her blood run sharp, to be thwarted in even so trifling a matter. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A departure was early made in the matter of strengthening the ribs of oak to better meet the strains from the rough seas. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The first known application of the kind was made by Mr. Murdoch, an engineer in the employment of Messrs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Bois-Guilbert made an effort to suppress his rising scorn and indignation, the expression of which, he was well aware, would have little availed him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That she had chosen to move away from him in this moment of her trouble made everything harder to say, but he must absolutely go on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I made myself known to your sister. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This made a powerful armament. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation, she made no answer. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- You have made yourself too clear. Jane Austen. Emma.
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