The difference between Earn and Make

When used as verbs, earn means to gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work, whereas make means to build, construct, or produce.

Make is also noun with the meaning: brand or kind.

check bellow for the other definitions of Earn and Make

  1. Earn as a verb (transitive):

    To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

    Examples:

    "You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well."

  2. Earn as a verb (transitive):

    To receive payment for work.

    Examples:

    "He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO.  My bank account is only earning one percent interest."

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  3. Earn as a verb (intransitive):

    To receive payment for work.

    Examples:

    "Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent."

  4. Earn as a verb (transitive):

    To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.

    Examples:

    "My CD earns me six percent!"

  5. Earn as a verb (transitive):

    To achieve by being worthy of.

    Examples:

    "to earn a spot in the top 20"

  1. Earn as a verb (UK, dialect, dated):

    To curdle, as milk.

  1. Earn as a verb (obsolete):

    To long; to yearn.

  2. Earn as a verb (obsolete):

    To grieve.

  1. Earn as a noun:

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir Walter Scott"

  1. Make as a verb (transitive):

    To create. To build, construct, or produce. To write or compose. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action. To create (the universe), especially from nothing.

    Examples:

    "We made a bird feeder for our yard."

    "I'll make a man out of him yet."

    "I made a poem for her wedding."

    "He made a will."

    "'make war"

    "They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men."

    "God made earth and heaven."

  2. Make as a verb (intransitive, now mostly, _, colloquial):

    To behave, to act.

    Examples:

    "To make like a deer caught in the headlights."

    "They made nice together, as if their fight never happened."

    "He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands."

  3. Make as a verb (intransitive):

    To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.

  4. Make as a verb:

    To constitute.

    Examples:

    "They make a cute couple."

    "This makes the third infraction."

    "One swallow does not a summer make."

  5. Make as a verb (transitive):

    To add up to, have a sum of.

    Examples:

    "Two and four make six."

  6. Make as a verb (intransitive, construed with ''of'', typically interrogative):

    To interpret.

    Examples:

    "I don’t know what to make of it."

  7. Make as a verb (transitive, usually stressed):

    To bring into success.

    Examples:

    "This company is what made you."

    "She married into wealth and so has it made."

  8. Make as a verb (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle):

    To cause to be.

    Examples:

    "synonyms render"

    "The citizens made their objections clear."

    "This might make you a bit woozy."

    "Did I make myself heard?"

    "Scotch will make you a man."

  9. Make as a verb:

    To cause to appear to be; to represent as.

  10. Make as a verb (ditransitive, second object is a verb):

    To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).

    Examples:

    "You're making her cry."

    "I was made to feel like a criminal."

  11. Make as a verb (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity):

    To force to do.

    Examples:

    "The teacher made the student study."

    "Don’t let them make you suffer."

  12. Make as a verb (ditransitive, of a fact):

    To indicate or suggest to be.

    Examples:

    "His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person."

  13. Make as a verb (transitive, of a bed):

    To cover neatly with bedclothes.

  14. Make as a verb (transitive, US, _, slang):

    To recognise, identify.

  15. Make as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

    To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.

    Examples:

    "We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight."

  16. Make as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):

    To proceed (in a direction).

    Examples:

    "They made westward over the snowy mountains."

    "'Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!"

    "They made away from the fire toward the river."

  17. Make as a verb (transitive):

    To cover (a given distance) by travelling.

  18. Make as a verb (transitive):

    To move at (a speed).

    Examples:

    "The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas."

    "This baby can make 220 miles an hour."

  19. Make as a verb:

    To appoint; to name.

  20. Make as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).

  21. Make as a verb (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic):

    To defecate or urinate.

  22. Make as a verb (transitive):

    To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).

    Examples:

    "They hope to make a bigger profit."

    "He didn't make the choir after his voice changed."

    "She made ten points in that game."

  23. Make as a verb (transitive):

    To pay, to cover (an expense);

  24. Make as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Chaucer"

    "rfquotek Tennyson"

  25. Make as a verb:

    To enact; to establish.

  26. Make as a verb:

    To develop into; to prove to be.

    Examples:

    "She'll make a fine president."

  27. Make as a verb:

    To form or formulate in the mind.

    Examples:

    "'make plans"

    "'made a questionable decision"

  28. Make as a verb:

    To perform a feat.

    Examples:

    "'make a leap"

    "'make a pass"

    "'make a u-turn"

  29. Make as a verb (obsolete):

    To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.

  30. Make as a verb (obsolete):

    To increase; to augment; to accrue.

  31. Make as a verb (obsolete):

    To be engaged or concerned in.

  32. Make as a verb (now, archaic):

    To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective .

  33. Make as a verb (transitive, euphemism):

    To take the virginity of.

  34. Make as a verb (transitive):

    To have sexual intercourse with.

  1. Make as a noun (often of a car):

    Brand or kind; often paired with model.

    Examples:

    "What make of car do you drive?"

  2. Make as a noun:

    How a thing is made; construction.

  3. Make as a noun:

    Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.

    Examples:

    "The camera was of German make."

  4. Make as a noun (uncountable):

    Quantity produced, especially of materials.

  5. Make as a noun (dated):

    The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.

  6. Make as a noun:

    A person's character or disposition.

  7. Make as a noun (bridge):

    The declaration of the trump for a hand.

  8. Make as a noun (physics):

    The closing of an electrical circuit.

  9. Make as a noun (computing):

    A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.

  10. Make as a noun (slang):

    Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.

  11. Make as a noun (slang, usually in phrase "easy make"):

    Past or future target of seduction (usually female).

  12. Make as a noun (slang, military):

    A promotion.

  13. Make as a noun:

    A home-made project

  14. Make as a noun (basketball):

    A made basket.

  1. Make as a noun (dialectal):

    Mate; a spouse or companion.

  1. Make as a noun (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now, rare):

    A halfpenny.

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