MADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does made mean? 

• MADE (adjective)
  The adjective MADE has 3 senses:

1. produced by a manufacturing process

2. (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order

3. successful or assured of success

  Familiarity information: MADE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produced by a manufacturing process

Context example:

bought some made goods at the local store; rope and nails

Similar:

ready-made (made for purchase and immediate use)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order

Context example:

a neatly made bed

Antonym:

unmade ((of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Successful or assured of success

Context example:

now I am a made man forever

Similar:

successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)

 Context examples 

“You have made your position very clear to me,” said Holmes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I confess that I made little progress.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"If I told you I had made a mistake? If I told you that I was very unhappy?—and I am. And I did make a mistake."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Yet the food you have eaten or wasted might have saved the lives of a score of wretches who made the food but did not eat it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

News should thrill you, for the project will be tailor-made for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Of these trees I made two stools, each about three feet high, and strong enough to bear my weight.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

His mind made for unity, and he was surprised when at first he began to see points of contact between the two worlds.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This is his statement as made before Inspector Montgomery at the Shadwell Police Station, and it has the advantage of being verbatim.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And in the business of love the three-year-old, who had made this his first adventure upon it, yielded up his life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)