Source : WordNet®

make out
     v 1: 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" [syn: {recognize},
           {recognise}, {distinguish}, {discern}, {pick out}, {tell
          apart}]
     2: make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket";
        "Please make the check out to me" [syn: {write out}, {issue},
         {cut}]
     3: comprehend; "I cannot make out what this politician is
        saying"
     4: 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" [syn: {do}, {fare}, {come}, {get along}]
     5: 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" [syn: {cope}, {get by}, {make do}, {contend}, {grapple},
         {deal}, {manage}]
     6: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
        everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
        intimate with this man?" [syn: {roll in the hay}, {love},
        {make love}, {sleep with}, {get laid}, {have sex}, {know},
         {do it}, {be intimate}, {have intercourse}, {have it away},
         {have it off}, {screw}, {fuck}, {jazz}, {eff}, {hump}, {lie
        with}, {bed}, {have a go at it}, {bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}]
     7: kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The couple
        were necking in the back seat of the car" [syn: {neck}]
     8: write all the required information onto a form; "fill out
        this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form" [syn: {complete},
         {fill out}, {fill in}]
     9: imply or suggest; "Your remarks make me out to be stupid"
     10: try to establish; "She made out that she know nothing about
         the crime"