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What does What does ,,make out" mean in these contexts?
l can just make out the outline of a flying saucer in this photo.
How are your children making out at the new school.
mean?
What does What does ,,make out" mean in these contexts?
l can just make out the outline of a flying saucer in this photo.
How are your children making out at the new school.
mean?
l can just make out the outline of a flying saucer in this photo.
How are your children making out at the new school.
mean?
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just make out the outline of a flying saucer = just see, with some difficulty, the outline of a flying saucer (hard to see but I think I see the outline of a flying saucer)
making out at the new school = managing at the new school (are they having any problems)
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“I can just ‘make out’ the outline means thy I can determine what it is. I can identify it. It is like putting puzzle pieces together and “making” an image or idea come together.
How are your children ‘making out’ at the new school is doing/ but more like doing with the circumstances given. Or accomplishing.
How are your children faring at the new school.
How are your children doing at the school.
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#1 "make out" means to be able to see something. To "just make out" means to just barely be able to see something
#2 "making out" means how they are doing/adjusting
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just make out the outline of a flying saucer = just see, with some difficulty, the outline of a flying saucer (hard to see but I think I see the outline of a flying saucer)
making out at the new school = managing at the new school (are they having any problems)
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