to make out 1	To find out or discover
to make out 2	To understand
to make out 3	To see in the distance with difficulty
to make out a cheque, bill, list etc	To write it out
to make out 4	To pretend
to make up one's face	To use cosmetics
to make up a prestription	To make the medicine from the doctor's instructions
to make up a story	To invent it
to make up a parcel	To tie it with paper and string
to make up one's mind	To decide
to make up a fire	To put more coal on it
to make up a quarrel	To become reconciled after quarrelling
to make up a four	To be fourth player in a game of cards or tennis
to make up a bill	To add up the items on it and present it to the customer
to make up a bed	To prepare a spare bed to receive a visitor
to make up to someone	To be particularly charming because you want someone to do something for you
make-up (as a noun) 1	Cosmetics
make-up (as a noun) 2	A person's fundamental character
to be made up of	to be composed of
to make away with someone	To murder someone: colloquial
to make do with something	To manage with something because one cannot afford to get anyhting better
Made it!	I've managed it! I've succeeded in doing it: colloquial
to make a clean breast of something	To confess something fully
to make hay while the sun shines	to take one's opportunity when it comes
to make a mountain out of a molehill	To exaggerate the importance of something
to pass oneself off as someone	To pretend to be someone
to pass on 1	To dies euphemism
to pass on information or news	To tell it to others
to pass out	To faint
to pass out 2	To finish one's initial period of training in the army, an apprenticeship etc.
to pass down knowledge from father to son	To transmit it orally so as to exclude others from the secret of how to do it
Things have come to a pretty pass	the situation has become really serious
to pull out a tooth	To extract it
A car pulled out	It left the kerb after being parked there or moved towards the centre of the road to overtake
to pull someone's leg	To tease, joke with someone: colloquial
to pull down a building	To demolish it
An attack of flu pulls you down	It makes you feel weak and depressed for a long time afterwards
to pull something off 1	To remove an object
to pull something off 2	To succeed in an endeavour: colloquial
to pull round	to recover from illness
to pull someone round	To cure someone of an illness
to pull oneself together	To control one's behaviour with an effort;to force oneself to behave rationally: colloquial
to pull up	To stop-used of cars, taxis etc.
to pull strings	To use personal influence, e.g. to obtain a job. This expression is derived from puppetry: colloquia
to pull through	To survive an illness
to pull someone through	To cure someone of an illness
output	Production, either industrial or artistic
to put off a light	To switch it off
to put off doing something	To avoid doing something
to put someone off the idea of doing something	To discourage someone from doing something
to put someone off someone	That put me off him. (It made me dislike him.)
to put in an hour's work	To do it
to put in	To interrupt a conversation
to put in at a port	To call at it on the way to somewhere else
to put in a good word for someone	To speak well of someone: to recommend him
to put in an application	To write it and send it off
to put in electric light, central heating etc.	To install it
to put on weight	To get fatter
to put on airs	To behave affectedly
to put on a light	To switch it on
to put on clothes	To dress oneself in them
It is all put on	It is all affectation and pretence
to put something across	He cannot put it across to his students (He cannot convey his knowledgeto them adequately)
to put down a deposit	To make a down payment, to pay a proportion of the price of an article to reserve it
to put down a rebellion	To quell it, to suppress it
to put down notes	To write them down
to put down someone as a fool	To judge someone to be a fool
I put his failure down to laziness	I attribute it to laziness
to put up houses	To build them
to put up the price	To increase it
to put up at an inn	To stay at it
to put up someone	To accommodate someone
to put up a good fight	To resist stoutly
to put up with something	To tolerate something, to stand it, to bear it
to put forward a plan etc.	To suggest it
to put something into practice	To convert ideas into actions
to run out of something	To have no more left
to run in a car	To get a new car engine used to working by using it gently
to run in a criminal	To arrest him: colloquial
to run into someone	To meet someone by chance
to run off with someone	To elope with someone
to run over someone	To injure someone by running your car over him accidentally
to run over something	To revise something quickly
to be run down	To be overtired and rather ill
to run up bills	To get more and more into debt
to run through a book	To skim through it quickly
to run through money	To squander it
to run across something	To find something by chance
to run a business etc.	To manage it, organise it
to be on the run	To have escaped from prison and not to have been caught yet
in the long run	The new tax will be effective in the long run (it will not have much effect at first)
to run short of something	To have very little left
to overrun a country	To spread all over it-used of bad things like pests, plagues, invading armies etc