Making Definition

mākĭng

noun

The act of one that makes.

The making of a cake; the making of excuses.

American Heritage

The act of one that makes or the process of being made; formation, construction, creation, production, composition, manufacture, development, performance, etc.

Webster's New World

The process of coming into being.

Trouble in the making.

American Heritage

The cause or means of success or advancement.

An experience that will be the making of him.

Webster's New World

Something made.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

affix

Creating a (specified) state or condition.

Shy-making, angry-making.

Webster's New World

verb

Present participle of make.

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

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Other Word Forms of Making

Noun

Singular:

making

Plural:

makings

Origin of Making

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

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From make +"Ž -ing.

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