make vs shoehorn

make

verb
  • To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something). 

  • To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status). 

  • To defecate or urinate. 

  • To constitute. 

  • To proceed (in a direction). 

  • To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability. 

  • Of water, to flow toward land; to rise. 

  • To develop into; to prove to be. 

  • To prepare (food); to cook (food). 

  • To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against. 

  • To force to do. 

  • To move at (a speed). 

  • To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action. 

  • To indicate or suggest to be. 

  • To enact; to establish. 

  • To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing. 

  • To form or formulate in the mind. 

  • To cause to appear to be; to represent as. 

  • To recognise, identify, spot. 

  • To take the virginity of. 

  • To perform a feat. 

  • To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man). 

  • To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence. 

  • To cover neatly with bedclothes. 

  • To cause to be. 

  • To build, construct, produce, or originate. 

  • To behave, to act. 

  • To cover (a given distance) by travelling. 

  • To interpret. 

  • To write or compose. 

  • To add up to, have a sum of. 

  • To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time. 

  • To appoint; to name. 

  • To bring into success. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

noun
  • A person's character or disposition. 

  • Quantity produced, especially of materials. 

  • A made basket. 

  • The camera was of German make. 

  • A home-made project 

  • Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. 

  • Brand or kind; model. 

  • Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence. 

  • Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards. 

  • Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female). 

  • A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility. 

  • The closing of an electrical circuit. 

  • Mate; a spouse or companion; a match. 

  • A promotion. 

  • Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. 

shoehorn

verb
  • To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to. 

  • To use a shoehorn. 

  • To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious. 

noun
  • A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place. 

  • Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. 

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