making for

Verb

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

1. (idiomatic) To set out to go (somewhere); to move towards.
   • He makes for England, there to claim the crown.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   head for

2. (idiomatic) To tend to produce or result in.
   • It was such a day as one dreams about, with that pleasant warmth in the air that makes for indolent content.1914, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 11, in The Pirate of Panama
3. (idiomatic) To identify; to connect.
   • I don't agree, but they make him for a criminal.
4. (idiomatic, rare) To confirm, favour, strengthen (an opinion, theory, etc.).
   • Secondly, we will examine the Cœlestiall Phœnomena that make for the Copernican Hypothesis, as if it were to prove absolutely victorious; […]1830, E.S. Carlos (translator), Galileo Galilei (author), “The Siderial Messenger”, reprinted in Louise Fargo Brown and George Barr Carson, Men and Centuries of European Civilization, Ayer Publishing...
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, for.
   • I made this picture for my Dad.