[verb] detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" Synonyms: recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, tell apart
[verb] make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me" Synonyms: write out, issue, cut
[verb] comprehend; "I cannot make out what this politician is saying"
[verb] proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" Synonyms: do, fare, come, get along
[verb] come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" Synonyms: cope, get by, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage