making

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

Noun

  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.

Origin

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.

Forms

makings makeing makin makkin makin' mekin myekin

Related

maker

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

Verb

  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 eat.

Origin

Etymology tree English make English -ing English making From make + -ing.

Forms

makeing makin makkin makin' mekin myekin