make-overとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

make over (third-person singular simple present makes over, present participle making over, simple past and past participle made over)

1. (idiomatic) To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them.

   We're going to make over the garage into a guest suite.

   • 2006, Prevention, volume 58, number 12, page 142:

     Our made-over meat recipes call for the leanest cuts of beef, lamb, and pork […]

2. (idiomatic) (of a person, particularly a woman) To give a new physical look to, especially with a new hairstyle, cosmetics, or clothes.

   Cindy is going to make over Karen tomorrow.

3. (idiomatic) (of a career, public image, etc.) To improve upon or take in a new direction.

   The senator needs to make over his image.

4. (idiomatic) To transfer ownership (or care) of, especially by means of a legal document.
   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

   • 1962 April, D. Bertram, “Trans-Pennine Diversion”, in Modern Railways, page 257:

     Limestone from the quarries at Warcop and Merrygill to Tees-side is now worked on to the former Midland Railway at Appleby and down the Eden Valley to Carlisle, where it is made over to the N.E.R.

5. (slang, African-American Vernacular, dated) To praise (someone) excessively.

関連する語

• makeover (noun)

アナグラム

• overmake

別の表記

• make-over

発音

名詞

makeover (plural makeovers)

1. A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.

   This room is a mess; it needs a makeover.

   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     There was no furniture or carpet to speak of. The wallpaper was peeling off the walls and there was a smell of damp everywhere. It was as if they were living like squatters in their own flat. However, this was no time for a makeover, even a fifteen-minute one like on TV […] .

反意語

• makeunder

等位語

• facelift
• overhaul
• revamp

派生語

• mummy makeover

関連する語

• make over (verb)

アナグラム

• overmake