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Make As If

Definition: Make As If

Make As If

Verb

1. Begin or appear to begin an action; "He made as if to shake my hand".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Make As If

English words defined with "make as if": Attempt to commit a crimebind, blow, body Englishcement, chafe, chatter, clang, clangor, compact, compress, cut shortdibblefretgallhissimpress, imprintpack togethersibilate, siss, sizz, smooth, smoothen, stun, stupefy, stupifyTo carve out, To make as if, To make as though, To make strange, To use up, truncate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "make as if": 100BaseVGAgricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, air tester, Animated GIFBACK MAKER, LOCKSTITCH, BARREL INSPECTOR, TIGHT, barrel tester and drainerCAR INSPECTOR, CAR-RETARDER OPERATOR, Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961, Cotton competitiveness provisionsDRILL-PRESS OPERATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROL, duplicating-machine operatorelectric-meter tester, shopfinal inspector, final tester, finishing machine operatorghosthacker humor, hacker humour, HEAD-headHotch-pot, hypercubeinside tester, INSIDE-METER TESTER, INSURANCE, INTRODUCTIONJIG-BORING MACHINE OPERATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROLkeg inspectorlexicographer, LINING MAKER, LOCKSTITCHmachine operator, MACROBIAN, milling-machine operator, milling-planer operator, minimaxnetiquette, Network File System, number-crunchingOppositionPROFILING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOLrailroad-car inspector, railroad-car retarder operator, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, retarder operator, RUBBER-GOODS TESTER, Rupert's Ballssafety-equipment tester, SALES REPRESENTATIVE, FINANCIAL SERVICES, Scarabee, School, SCSI adaptor, shift supervisor, melting, slab-miller operator, software theft, SPRING COILING MACHINE SETTER, stitcher operator, STITCHING-MACHINE OPERATOR, studio technician-video operator, supervisor, furnace, supervisor, furnace room, SUPERVISOR, RECEIVING AND PROCESSINGTOBACCO, tracer-controlled-milling-machine operatorUnix brain damagevideotape engineer, VIDEOTAPE OPERATORWeak Head Normal Form. (references)

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Expressions: Make As If

Expressions using "make as if": make as if to To make as if. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Make As If

Language Translations for "make as if"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

bëj sikur (make as if to, simulate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

úgy tesz, mintha (make as if to). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akemay asay ifay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

percorrer (come, course, make as if to, perambulate, roam, trapes, travel, vagabondize, wander). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

делать вид (make as if to, make believe). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pretvarati se (feign, make as if to, make believe, pretend). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hacer como si. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

låtsas som om (feign, pretend). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yapar gibi görünmek (let on, make as if to, make pretence of doing, make pretense of doing, play at, play on, play upon, pretend, sham), gibi yapmak (make as if to). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Make As If

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-i-k-m-s"

-2 letters: mafias, sifaka.

-3 letters: amias, amies, fakes, fames, kaifs, kames, kiefs, mafia, makes, mikes, samek.

-4 letters: aims, amas, amia, amie, amis, asea, emfs, fake, fame, fems, kaas, kaes, kafs, kaif, kame, kami, keas, kefs, kief, kifs, maes, make, mask, mesa, mike, mise, safe, sake, saki, same, seam, seif, semi, sike, sima, skim.

-5 letters: aas, aim, ais, ama, ami, ask, efs, emf, ems, fas, fem, fie, ifs, ism, kae, kaf, kas, kea, kef, kif, mae, mas, mis, sae, sea, sei, sim, ska, ski.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-i-k-m-s"
 

+5 letters: craftsmanlike.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Make As If


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

4D 61 6B 65      41 73      49 66

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

        

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

01001101 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110011 00100000 01001001 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#115 &#32 &#73 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 006B 0065      0041 0073      0049 0066

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

476777712358524372

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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