TO MAKE ROOM

  

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TO MAKE ROOM

Definition: TO MAKE ROOM

TO MAKE ROOM

1. To open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. --Shak. Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO MAKE ROOM

English words defined with "TO MAKE ROOM": ease upgive, give wayjump seatmove overTo give placeyield. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO MAKE ROOM": demand paginghatchery helperincubator helperLABORER, POULTRY HATCHERYMake way withpreempted program. (references)

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Photo Album: TO MAKE ROOM

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Manhattan's changing skyline--20-story buildings are being torn down to make room for 40- and 50-story structures. Credit: Library of Congress.

Victory food from American waters. Crew members throw overboard excess ice from Old Glory's hold. Fishmen allow a proportion of one ton of ice to three tons of fish. When the catch is unusually large as on this trip, some ice is removed to make room for t. Credit: Library of Congress.

House that has been evacuated to make room for the Army maneuver grounds. Caroline County, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Classroom space was at a premium in the Fayetteville area, so this room was rented in a church to make room for additional children that came in as a result of the enlarging of Fort Bragg. Silver Lake, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

The small town of Upper Zion, which will be evacuated to make room for the Army maneuver grounds. Caroline County, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

The postmaster of Upper Zion, Virginia. When the town is evacuated to make room for the Army maneuver grounds, he will be out of a job. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wheat elevators, sack warehouse and railroad cars. Craigmont, Idaho. Some of these are new elevators--all old elevators were full before the harvest started. All government-owned wheat was being shipped out to make room for the newly harvested crop. Credit: Library of Congress.

House in Caroline County that will be evacuated to make room for the Army maneuver grounds. Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

General store and post office in Sterlingville, New York, a village which is being evacuated to make room for the Pine Camp expansion. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: TO MAKE ROOM

AuthorQuotation

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

Thomas Paine

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: TO MAKE ROOM

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

The rest of the Saloon had been cleared of furniture, to make room for the guests.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

At the sound of the door, people had stood aside to make room.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Al climbed on the load to make room for Ma in the seat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO MAKE ROOM

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Many stores that were traditionally run by independent shop-owners have been closing to make room for franchised networks. (references)

Economic History

France

In the retail sector, traditionally independent shops have been closing to make room for franchise networks. (references)

Human Rights

Philippines

The forcible displacement of urban squatters to make room for infrastructure and commercial developments continued during the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: TO MAKE ROOM

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837The tribes which occupied the countries now constituting the Eastern States were annihilated or have melted away to make room for the whites.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: TO MAKE ROOM

Language Translations for "TO MAKE ROOM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

staklager (again only from the top register, cellar, each word in turn enters the top register and is then pushed down the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, push-down store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stapelgeheugen (again only from the top register, cellar, each word in turn enters the top register and is then pushed down the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, push-down store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pinomuisti (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

   

French

  

pile (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store), mémoire liste inverse (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

   

German

  

Stapelspeicher (pop stack), Platz machen für (to make room for), Kellerspeicher (pushdown stack, stack register). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μηχανισμός σωρού (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utat enged (give way to, to give way, to give way to, to make room for, to make way for), helyet csinál (make room, to make room for, to move to one side). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stack (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store), pila (battery, heap, pier, pile, stack), memoria a impilaggio (again only from the top register, cellar, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, push-down store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store), catasta (pile, stack). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay akemay oomray

   

Portuguese

  

memória de lista inversa (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

memoria de pila (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stackminne (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO MAKE ROOM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-k-m-m-o-o-o-r-t"

-2 letters: roommate.

-3 letters: tearoom.

-4 letters: market, marmot, mooter, retook.

-5 letters: amort, armet, karoo, korat, maker, mater, metro, morae, motor, oater, orate, ramet, romeo, taker, tamer, tarok, toker, troak, troke.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO MAKE ROOM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      4D 41 4B 45      52 4F 4F 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001101 01000001 01001011 01000101 00100000 01010010 01001111 01001111 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#77 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#32 &#82 &#79 &#79 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      004D 0041 004B 0045      0052 004F 004F 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449247354539252494947

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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