make sense
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make sense
verb makes sense · making sense · made sense
- To be sensible, coherent, reasonable. The thing doesn’t make sense to me.
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To decipher or understand.
Can you make sense of her handwriting?
Similar: make head or tail of
- Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; to work, be operative, or be advantageous to. Maybe we should take a break. I mean, our relationship just isn't making much sense anymore.
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To be in the realm of the ordinary, to be not particularly developed.
If you want to grow spinal erectors that don’t make sense, you have to do a lot of bent-over compound lifts.
Opposite: ridiculous, absurd
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verb to be coherent
| Español | tener sentido, hacer sentido, ser lógico, cobrar sentido |
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| 日本語 | 意味する imi-surú, 意味が通る imi-ga tōru |
| 中文 | 有意義 /有意义 yǒu yìyì, 有道理 yǒu dàolǐ |
| Português | fazer sentido |
| Français | avoir du sens, tenir debout, faire sens |
| Deutsch | Sinn ergeben, sinnvoll sein, Sinn geben, Sinn machen |
| Italiano | avere senso |
| Română | a avea sens |
| Русский | име́ть смысл imétʹ smysl, быть поня́тным bytʹ ponjátnym, поня́тно ponjátno |
verb to decipher, understand
| 日本語 | 納得する nattoku-surú |
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| 中文 | 理解 lǐjiě, 懂得 dǒngde |
| Português | entender |
| Deutsch | schlau werden aus, verstehen, begreifen |
| Italiano | dare un senso, capire, decifrare |
| Русский | понима́ть ponimátʹ, разбира́ть razbirátʹ |
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