make out

辨认出,看出,听出,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
make out (verb)
transitive verb
1.
to complete (as a printed form) by supplying required information - make out a check
2.
to find or grasp the meaning of - tried to make out what had really happened
3.
to form an opinion or idea about - conclude how do you make that out
4.
a) to represent as being - made them out to be losers
b) to pretend to be true - made out that he had never heard of me
5.
to represent or delineate in detail
6.
intransitive verb
to see and identify with difficulty or effort - discern make out a ship through the fog
1.
- get along fare how are you making out with the new job
2.
a) to engage in sexual intercourse
b) - neck
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
make out (verb)
1.
to meet one's day-to-day needs
SYNONYMS:
cope, do, fare, get by, get on, make out, manage, shift
RELATED WORDS:
carry on, contrive, scrape (by through), scrounge; last, survive; eke out, scrape (out), squeeze, wrest, wring; afford, swing
NEAR ANTONYMS:
collapse, fail, fall short, fizzle, flounder; decline, peter (out), slump, wane; give up
make out (verb)
2.
to have a clear idea of
SYNONYMS:
appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch, catch on (to), cognize, compass, conceive, cotton (to on to), decipher, decode, dig, discern, get, grasp, grok, intuit, know, make, make out, perceive, recognize, register, savvy, see, seize, sense, tumble (to), twig, understand
RELATED WORDS:
absorb, digest, take in; realize; fathom, penetrate, pierce
NEAR ANTONYMS:
misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misperceive, misread, mistake, misunderstand
miss
make out (verb)
3.
to take on a false or deceptive appearance
SYNONYMS:
dissemble, dissimulate, let on, make out
RELATED WORDS:
act, impersonate, masquerade, play, playact, pose; affect, assume, counterfeit, fake, feign, profess, put on, sham, simulate; camouflage, conceal, disguise, mask; bluff, feint
make out (verb)
4.
to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information
SYNONYMS:
conclude, decide, deduce, derive, extrapolate, gather, judge, make out, reason, understand
RELATED WORDS:
assume, suppose; conjecture, guess, speculate, surmise; construe, interpret, read; contemplate, philosophize, rationalize, think; ascertain, dope (out), find out
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