making

English

Etymology

make +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
• Hyphenation: mak‧ing

Verb

making

1. 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

Noun

making (plural makings)

1. Process of growth or development.

   As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.

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