making

English Online Dictionary. What means making‎? What does making mean?

English

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
• Hyphenation: mak‧ing

Etymology 1

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• maker

Translations

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.

Anagrams

• Kingma