making

English

Alternative forms

• makeing (obsolete)
• makin, makkin (Wearside, Durham, dialectal)
• makin', mekin (pronunciation spelling)
• myekin (Tyneside, dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
• Hyphenation: mak‧ing

Etymology 1

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

Noun

making (countable and uncountable, plural makings)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• brushmaking, brush-making
• cabinet making
• coffee making
• cringe-making
• decision-making
• decision making
• difference-making
• doormaking
• epoch-making
• film making
• history-making
• home-making
• hot-making
• in the making
• loss-making
• love-making
• love making
• making-iron
• making of
• making-of
• mark-making
• match-making
• merry-making
• money-making
• nail-making
• of one's own making
• pain-making
• picking quarrels and making trouble
• policy-making, policymaking
• sausage making
• sausage-making
• shoemaking
• slave-making ant
• steel-making

 

Related terms

• maker

Translations

act — see also workmanship,‎ construction

• Finnish: tekeminen (fi)
• Galician: feitura f
• German: Anfertigen n, Anfertigung (de) f, Fabrikation (de) f, Herstellung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ποίησις f (poíēsis)

• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çêkirin (ku) f

• Latin: factūra (la) m
• Sanskrit: कृति (sa) f (kṛti)
• Turkish: etme (tr), yapma (tr)

Etymology 2

From make +‎ -ing.

Verb

making

1. 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^[sic] eat.