make+kind

  • 21make one's mark — {v. phr.} To become known to many people; do well the work you started to do; make a reputation. * /Shakespeare made his mark as a playwright./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 22make noises — 1 : to talk about something in usually an indirect way usually + about She started making noises about running for office. [=she started saying things that showed she was thinking about running for office] Her parents are making noises about… …

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  • 23make soothing noises — make soothing, encouraging, reassuring, etc. noises idiom to make remarks of the kind mentioned, even when that is not what you really think • He made all the right noises at the meeting yesterday (= said what people wanted to hear). Main entry:… …

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  • 24make reassuring noises — make soothing, encouraging, reassuring, etc. noises idiom to make remarks of the kind mentioned, even when that is not what you really think • He made all the right noises at the meeting yesterday (= said what people wanted to hear). Main entry:… …

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  • 25make-believe — make′ believe n. 1) pretense, esp. of an innocent or playful kind; feigning 2) pretended; feigned; imaginary • Etymology: 1805–15 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 26kind — 1 /kaInd/ noun 1 (C) a type or sort or person or thing (+ of): What kind of fish is this? | Are you in some kind of trouble? | victimization of the worst kind | all kinds of: They sell all kinds of different things. | of this kind: Operations of… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 27kind — kind1 W1S1 [kaınd] n [: Old English; Origin: cynd] 1.) [U and C] one of the different types of a person or thing that belong to the same group = ↑sort, ↑type kind of ▪ They sell all kinds of things. ▪ The flowers attract several different kinds… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 28Kind von Taung — Das „Kind von Taung“ (Replikat), Naturmuseum Senckenberg Als Kind von Taung wird der fossile Schädel eines Vormenschen bezeichnet, der im Herbst 1924 in der heute zu Südafrika gehörigen Ortschaft Taung entdeckt und auf ein A …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 29Kind — 1. Ach, dass ich meine armen Kinder so geschlagen, klagte der Bauer, und sie waren des Pfaffen. – Eiselein, 375. 2. Alle Kinder werden mit Weinen geboren. Lat.: Clamabunt E et A quotquot nascuntur ab Eva. (Binder I, 193; II, 497; Seybold, 77.) 3 …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 30make — v 1. fabricate, manufacture, produce, mint; construct, build, assemble, set up; erect, elevate, raise, rear, put up; mold, form, fashion, model, shape, frame; create, invent, originate, devise, contrive, compose, write, put together; cast, block …

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