make sense

Idioms: make sense

1. Be understandable. This usage, first recorded in 1686, is often used in a negative context, as in This explanation doesn't make sense.
2. Be reasonable, wise, or practical, as in It makes sense to find out first how many will attend the conference. This term employs sense in the meaning of "what is reasonable," a usage dating from 1600. In Britain it is also put as stand to sense.

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The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
Synonym: add up

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	Car wraps make sense for business-to-consumer companies like HVAC electricians plumbers etc but do they work and make sense for B2B companies like telecom IT and etc?
	Saw IV ending doesn't make sense On the tape in jigsaws stomach it says to Hoffman that he will be tested he cant be tested when jigsaw and amanda are dead. He cant test himself it doesnt make sense?
	Does The Apocalypse Of Liberty make sense cos my mate said it and it sounds amazing but I don't think it makes sense...and what does it mean?

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		Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more
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