Дипломная работа: The problem of polysemy in the English language

Fired; hip; involved; lost; mixed up; out … about; under; used to; contact; vested; accustomed; get me wrong; gets nervous; get wet; get a divorce; get a visa; got angry.

Exercise 4

Match the following definitions of the word make by the phrases given below:

1. to make encouraging noises;

2. a match made in heaven;

3. to make a fortune;

4. to make a living;

5. to make believe;

6. to make or break;

7. to make a comparison;

8. to be of your own making;

9. to be made of stone;

10. to make a booking.

a) to earn a lot of money;

b) to earn money one’s need to live on;

c) to imagine that something is true when it is not so;

d) to be very successful or to fail completely;

e) to say things which suggest what your attitude is;

f) to show similarities between two persons or things;

g) a marriage between two people who are exactly right for each other;

h) not to show any emotions or pity for somebody;

i) problems that are of your own making have been caused by you and no one else;

j) to make an arrangement to travel by train, use a hotel room etc at a particular time in future.

Exercise 5

Define the meaning of the word table in the sentences below. How many meanings did you find?

1. A single bed sheet makes a good-sized tablecloth for an average rectangular table and you can choose exactly the colour you want.

2. All of it was sold from commercial operations so compact that they frequently fitted on a two-foot-square folding television table.

3. He led them, a procession of six, to a table right next to a platform.

4. He puts it flat on the table and opens the cover and shows me the copyright.