{
  "id": "make.verb",
  "term": "make",
  "sense": "verb",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "construction, creation",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "interaction.process",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "persist.continue",
      "come.arrive",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "Parts move into place through mutual influence, forming a spatial arrangement that endures.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "enduring configuration",
      "spatial coherence",
      "emergent stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station assembled in orbit from modules launched separately over ten years.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Proteins fold spontaneously in water, forming stable 3D shapes that persist for cellular functions.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis emerged from mortgage defaults, credit swaps, and bank interdependencies.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "making often establishes what something is by differing from what it was"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advertising.commercial",
    "author.person",
    "building.structure",
    "business.economic",
    "construction.building",
    "create.production",
    "defines.verb",
    "development.growth",
    "device.tool",
    "digital.electrical",
    "division.process",
    "double.quantity",
    "drift.aimless",
    "effort.general",
    "enables.facilitation",
    "engineering.technical",
    "establishes.verb",
    "executive.role",
    "express.communication",
    "features.attribute",
    "fun.leisure",
    "get.acquisition",
    "give.transfer",
    "governance.administrative",
    "government.administrative",
    "industry.economic",
    "interest.psychological",
    "join.connection",
    "keep.maintenance",
    "machine.constructed-system",
    "movies.entertainment",
    "natural.ordinary",
    "official.authority",
    "paper.material",
    "performance.quality",
    "please.politeness",
    "plug.electrical",
    "poker.game",
    "power.energy",
    "print.material",
    "profit.economic",
    "said.speech",
    "says.speech",
    "send.communication",
    "shoes.clothing",
    "show.visual",
    "smith.metalwork",
    "society.social",
    "software.digital",
    "star.celestial",
    "start.action",
    "state-of-the-art.frontier",
    "style.fashion",
    "ten.numeric",
    "think.cognitive",
    "toys.play",
    "training.skill",
    "turn.rotational",
    "use.application",
    "video.digital",
    "write.communication"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "made",
    "make",
    "makes",
    "making"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'come.arrive' and 'pattern.regularity' to components to align with definition; definition remained accurate and was not altered."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb"
}