MAKE SENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make sense mean? 

• MAKE SENSE (verb)
  The verb MAKE SENSE has 1 sense:

1. be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

  Familiarity information: MAKE SENSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE SENSE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

add up; make sense

Hypernyms (to "make sense" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Here I could only make sense by putting T and G for the missing letters, and supposing that the name was that of some house or inn at which the writer was staying.

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

Categorization, or the recognition that individual objects share similarities and can be grouped together, is fundamental to how we make sense of the world.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

So it doesn't make sense for deep-sea octopuses to brood eggs in warm water, scientists say: That's usually suicide.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)

The light from most of the region’s stars indicates that they are travelling at very large velocities away from the galaxy centre — as would make sense for objects caught in a stream of fast-moving material.

(Stars Born in Winds from Supermassive Black Holes, ESO)

There are four main types: • Expressive aphasia - you know what you want to say, but you have trouble saying or writing what you mean • Receptive aphasia - you hear the voice or see the print, but you can't make sense of the words • Anomic aphasia - you have trouble using the correct word for objects, places, or events • Global aphasia - you can't speak, understand speech, read, or write

(Aphasia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)