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