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making

noun
/ˈmeɪkɪŋ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Old English macung Middle English making English making From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make + -ing. Cognate with dated Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.

  1. inherited from macung
  2. inherited from making

Definitions

  1. The act of forming, causing, or constituting

    The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.

  2. Process of growth or development.

    • As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.

  3. present participle and gerund of make

    • 1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat.

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Derived

artmaking, automaking, babymaking, badgemaking, bagmaking, barrelmaking, basketmaking, beadmaking, bedmaking, beermaking, bellmaking, beltmaking, blanketmaking, blockmaking, boatmaking, boilermaking, boltmaking, bombmaking, bookmaking, bootmaking, bottlemaking, bowlmaking, bowmaking, boxmaking, breadmaking, brickmaking, bronzemaking, broommaking, brushmaking, brush-making, bucketmaking, bulletmaking, buttonmaking, cabinetmaking, cabinet making, cakemaking, candlemaking, candymaking, capmaking, cardmaking · +266 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for making. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA